Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/04/09/biden-trillion-budget-hike-social-programs/
April 9, 2021 - President Biden on Friday proposed a $1.5 trillion annual budget for fiscal 2022, $118 billion higher than the regular 2020 appropriations, featuring a significant 16 percent boost in nondefense spend...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/03/24/congress-given-path-cut-pentagon-budget-80-billion/
March 24, 2021 - "We have a choice: funnel countless trillions of dollars into weapons of war and Pentagon waste, or put our resources toward efforts that will actually make the world safer for all of us."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/02/05/rethinking-us-security/
Feb. 5, 2021 - Most Americans who either support or accept the large amount of money spent on the U.S. military probably do so because they think it makes our nation secure. But does it really?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/02/02/warren-blasts-unconscionable-740-billion-pentagon/
Feb. 2, 2021 - "A budget is about priorities," said Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/01/15/more-military-money-more-problems/
Jan. 15, 2021 - An organized left must take stock of strategic cleavages to push for military spending cuts in the near term, and lay the groundwork for major long-term transformation of U.S. policies away from milit...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/12/03/congress-deadlock-covid-relief-but-funded-pentagon/
Dec. 3, 2020 - There is always money for war.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/11/30/why-did-democrats-lose-seats-they-expected-to-win/
Nov. 30, 2020 - Democrats lost several state legislative races, which could impact redistricting, Medicaid expansion, climate action, and voting rights. Why did Democrats lose seats they expected to win? Where is the...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/11/24/climate-change-national-security-coopt-pentagon/
Nov. 24, 2020 - Read the fine print before rushing to deem climate change a “national security” threat.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/11/21/liberals-rally-forestall-centrist-budget-nominee/
Nov. 21, 2020 - Liberal groups are rallying to forestall the possibility that President-elect Joe Biden selects Bruce Reed to head his administration’s Office of Management and Budget, as they fear his relative...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/11/12/transition-2020-biden-defense-team-under-fire/
Nov. 12, 2020 - President-elect Joe Biden's transition is getting pressure from liberal lawmakers, progressive think tanks and anti-war groups to bring on a more diverse and broad-minded set of Pentagon advisers who ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/10/28/climate-chaos-liberal-militarization-response/
Oct. 28, 2020 - Everywhere we turn in liberal discourse, high-profile Democrats and center-left media are framing climate change as a “national security” risk requiring national security solutions. But he...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/10/12/dismantling-systems-that-enable-police-terror/
Oct. 12, 2020 - If we are intent on getting justice for Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, and so many others, the system must be dismantled.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/09/30/democrats-pounce-trump-income-tax-story/
Sept. 30, 2020 - President Donald Trump denies it, Arizona Republicans largely ignored it but state Democrats pounced on it – a New York Times report this week that the president paid as little as $750 in federa...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/notes-and-sources-covid-recession/
Sept. 25, 2020 - In 2017, 140 million people in the United States were living in poverty or on the verge of poverty using this measure. With everything changed since 2019, and official poverty measure...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/09/25/40-groups-demand-gross-misuse-pentagon-covid-funds/
Sept. 25, 2020 - "It's unconscionable that the department would prioritize defense contractor wish lists over the health and safety of the American people."
Analysis - /analysis/2020/no-warming-no-war/no-warming-no-war-webinar-transcript/
Sept. 15, 2020 - If you want to better understand the connections between militarism, racism, and the climate crisis, read the English-language transcript of our "No Warming, No War" webinar from Monday, July 27.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/09/15/missing-from-mainstream-media/
Sept. 15, 2020 - ...housing, and infrastructure building.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/09/14/time-to-rein-in-inflated-military-budgets/
Sept. 14, 2020 - In an era of pandemics and climate change, we need to reconsider what “national security” means.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/08/26/austerity-politics-wont-cut-pentagon-spending/
Aug. 26, 2020 - For those who want to see a correction to bloated Pentagon spending — and the military overreach it represents — the deficit fears deeply ingrained in American politics may seem like a nif...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/ten-percent-pentagon-cut-would-return-us-obama-biden-levels/
Aug. 11, 2020 - As part of the annual must-pass military spending and policy bill (the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, or “NDAA”), progressive lawmakers have put forward a proposa...
