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Call your Senator: Stop the U.S. Role in Yemen War

Blog - /blog/2018/12/03/call-your-senator-stop-us-role-yemen-war/

- You can help end the war in Yemen today.

Bipartisan Commission Wants Pentagon Budget Increase to Nearly $1 Trillion by 2024

Blog - /blog/2018/11/28/commission-wants-pentagon-budget-increase-nearly-1-trillion-2024/

- ...military spending of $972 trillion in 2024. But the Pentagon just failed its first-ever audit. If you don’t know where $700 billion is going, why would you know where $1 trillion is going?

Pentagon Fails Audit; Asks for a Raise

Blog - /blog/2018/11/20/pentagon-fails-audit-asks-raise/

- Asking for more money is not a good look for the Pentagon right now. But that’s just what a national security commission did last week, the day before the Pentagon announced that it had complete...

NPP Fall Party 2018 in Northampton, MA

Blog - /blog/2018/11/05/npp-fall-party-2018-northampton-ma/

- NPP's Fall Party is November 13, 2018!

Today is the International Day Against Nuclear Tests

Blog - /blog/2018/08/29/today-international-day-against-nuclear-tests/

- Activists around the world are uniting to call for a stop to all nuclear weapons testing. Period.

Trump's NATO Military Spending Request Would add $600 billion to World Military Spending

Blog - /blog/2018/07/13/trumps-nato-military-spending-request-would-add-600-billion-world-military-spending/

- At the NATO summit, President Trump first scolded the United States' allies for not spending as much as NATO guidelines suggest on their militaries - now at two percent of each country's GDP (a measur...

House GOP Budget Calls for Drastic Cuts to Domestic Programs

Blog - /blog/2018/06/21/house-gop-budget-calls-drastic-cuts-domestic-programs/

- This week the House majority released their budget blueprint for fiscal year 2019, which begins October 1.

Diplomacy is Better Than War in North Korea

Blog - /blog/2018/06/12/diplomacy-better-war-north-korea/

-  It would be overly cynical not to recognize the Singapore Summit's potential for good.

Google Brings “Don’t be evil” to Pentagon Contracts (Or does it?)

Blog - /blog/2018/06/04/google-brings-dont-be-evil-pentagon-contracts-or-does-it/

- ...military applications of artificial intelligence.

Memorializing America's Wars

Blog - /blog/2018/05/27/memorializing-americas-wars/

- Since 1940, the United States has been at war as often as not – 37 of the last 78 years, not counting the Cold War.

Your Tax Dollars at Work: The Syrian Strike, Military and War

Blog - /blog/2018/04/16/your-tax-dollars-work-syrian-strike-military-and-war/

- As our government launches unecessary and dangerous attacks in Syria, it's devastating to know who paid for it: we did.

“Is the U.S. at War Right Now?" and Other Questions

Blog - /blog/2018/02/15/us-war-right-now-and-other-questions/

- ...military budget is higher than at any...

Trump's Massive Budget Cuts Spare the Military

Blog - /blog/2018/02/12/trumps-massive-budget-cuts-spare-military/

- ...military and veteran's benefits would be spared from the Trump cuts. 

Congress Strikes a Deal for 54% Military Spending in Federal Budget

Blog - /blog/2018/02/09/congress-strikes-deal-54-military-spending-federal-budget/

- The resulting federal discretinary budgets invests 54% of the federal discretionary budget in the miltiary and nuclear weapons. 

Cut off the Pentagon Funds and Stop the March to War

Blog - /blog/2018/01/31/cut-pentagon-funds-and-stop-march-war/

- ...military ramping up for war, in a country that has had more than enough. There's no other justification for the military spending Trump wants.

This Martin Luther King Day, Militarism, Racism and Poverty are Still With Us

Blog - /blog/2018/01/15/martin-luther-king-day-militarism-racism-and-poverty-are-still-us/

- Is the United States doomed to keep making the same mistakes?

Death and Taxes: Trump's Tax Bill and the National Defense Authorization Act

Blog - /blog/2017/11/17/death-and-taxes-trumps-tax-bill-and-national-defense-authorization-act/

- ...military spending in FY 2018, and a $1.5 trillion tax plan that bestows untold wealth upon the already jaw-droppingly wealthy.

The War in Afghanistan Just Might End Someday: Senate Votes on Authorization to Use Military Force

Blog - /blog/2017/09/13/war-afghanistan-one-step-closer-ending-senate-vote-authorization-use-military-force/

- Today's Senate vote to require new congressional authorization for ongoing wars may have failed - but it still represents progress.

Dear President Trump. "Fire and Fury:" Never Again

Blog - /blog/2017/08/09/dear-president-trump-fire-and-fury-never-again/

- The president's deeply disturbing tendency to glorify war has no place in determining our country's use of nuclear weapons. 

What are you looking at? Congress' Military Spending Grab

Blog - /blog/2017/07/19/what-are-you-looking-congress-military-spending-grab/

- ...military spending are starkly different. See how they stack up.