Blog - /blog/2023/11/21/pentagon-fails-its-sixth-audit/
- There is an entity whose job it is to prevent this sort of abuse: Congress. With each failure at the Pentagon, Congress is failing, too.
Blog - /blog/2022/04/11/climate-justice-movement-must-be-anti-war-notes-antiwar-organizers/
- ...the critical connections between war, imperialism, and the climate crisis.
Blog - /blog/2016/04/20/us-military-spending-vs-world-crazy/
- ...the next seven countries combined.
Blog - /blog/2015/06/15/how-data-act-implementation-opening-federal-spending/
- ...the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) into law. Once implemented, the DATA Act will make it easier to understand how the federal government spends money.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/07/12/dwight-was-right-say-no-to-military-contractors/
July 12, 2023 - The world Eisenhower warned about has materialized. We need more members of Congress to stand up to the arms industry and fight for social investments instead.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/13/debt-ceiling-reinforced-double-standard-military/
June 13, 2023 - There’s no price too high for the Pentagon, even while Washington claims the wealthiest country in the world apparently can’t afford to make sure all of its people have basic access to foo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/18/where-does-my-tax-money-go-calculator-what-happens/
April 18, 2023 - ...the Internal Revenue Service, but a little transparency never hurts.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/17/average-taxpayer-spent-pentagon-contractors-2022/
April 17, 2023 - ...The main message? Our government is continuing to invest too much in the military, and in militarized law enforcement, and not nearly enough on prevention, people, and our communities."
Analysis - /analysis/2022/budget-deal-rewards-military-expense-domestic-needs/
Dec. 20, 2022 - ...the status quo, where domestic priorities never get equal footing with military spending. It’s unconscionable to keep throwing more money at Pentagon contractors when so many in this country are...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/08/17/climate-bill-activists-demand-biden-kill-oil-deal/
Aug. 17, 2022 - ...the bill contains “poison pills” to expand fossil fuel exploration that climate experts say will fail to prevent the worst effects of the climate crisis.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/06/30/this-country-want-money-from-pentagon-reallocated/
June 30, 2022 - ...gon
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/04/18/healthcare-covid-response-military-top-2021-tax/
April 18, 2022 - ...the year before," Koshgarian pointed out. "And all of them are higher than they were at the top of the Vietnam War. It's a cost that keeps going up and up."While the IRS does not provide individual re...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/04/18/tax-day-2022-where-texans-federal-tax-dollars-go/
April 18, 2022 - ...ther you love or loathe it often depends on if you owe money to the government.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/03/10/super-polluting-pentagon-climate-plan-greenwash/
March 10, 2022 - US military aims for net zero by 2050 but with a carbon footprint greater than some 140 countries critics say it needs radical change
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/03/01/what-can-we-do-to-help-ukraine/
March 1, 2022 - ...going on and how it will affect the world. However, it’s vital that we remember those who the conflict has impacted the most: Ukrainian civilians.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/02/23/risk-of-war-financial-burden-americans/
Feb. 23, 2022 - The United States has provided $650 million in defense equipment and services to Ukraine this past year alone amid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/23/parable-of-all-american-violence/
Sept. 23, 2021 - ...the war of terror.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/20/is-pentagon-budget-too-big/
Sept. 20, 2021 - The U.S. defense budget is more than $700 billion dollars. How efficiently are those dollars being spent? Congress keeps appropriating more to the Pentagon. But some lawmakers say it's time ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/02/war-on-terror-cost-21-trillion-killed-million/
Sept. 2, 2021 - The U.S. has spent $21 trillion on foreign and domestic militarization" since the fateful 2001 attacks that spawned the Afghanistan intervention, marking a new era of U.S.-led conflict across the glob...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/11/24/climate-change-national-security-coopt-pentagon/
Nov. 24, 2020 - ...the fine print before rushing to deem climate change a “national security” threat.
