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...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/ten-better-uses-10-pentagon-budget/
Aug. 11, 2020 - A $74 billion cut is a strong step toward better spending priorities, and could make a tremendous difference in other programs ranging from health care and education to job creation at a time when it ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/23/move-to-trim-military-budget-ten-percent-thwarted/
July 23, 2020 - 74 billion dollars could disappear from the Pentagon budget and barely be noticed by most current military operations, but would make a massive difference to any number of social priorities that curre...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/22/congress-blocks-pentagon-cut-10-things-instead/
July 22, 2020 - The National Priorities Project has put together a list of ten better uses for the $74 billion than giving it to one of the world’s largest bureaucracies.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/21/americans-want-to-reinvest-10-percent-military/
July 21, 2020 - Most people in the U.S. agree: it's time to reinvest from the bloated miitary budget to real human needs, like containing coronavirus. This week, members of Congress should vote to follow their lead.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/20/americans-support-cutting-pentagon-for-real-needs/
July 20, 2020 - A 10 percent cut to the Pentagon could come from a multitude of places, including: ending our never-ending wars in the Middle East, reducing our reliance on nuclear weapons, and turning off the spigot...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/14/america-needs-transformative-foreign-policy/
July 14, 2020 - “Going bold” on the creation of a an alternative approach to defense is both good policy and good politics. The public is ready for real change, not just incremental steps. If politic...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/14/beginning-of-end-for-rising-pentagon-budgets/
July 14, 2020 - The Pentagon is not likely to escape the growing imperative of change. And thanks to amendments to this year's NDAA, including demands for a 10 percent cut to the military budget, legislators won&rsqu...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/14/cut-pentagon-10-percent-invest-in-public-health/
July 14, 2020 - Tanks and ships can’t save us from our greatest dangers, so let’s pay for the things that can.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/08/defund-the-pentagon-too/
July 8, 2020 - Any effort to reduce police spending and focus on social programs should include massive cuts to the Pentagon’s bloated budget.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/07/democrats-be-bold-on-national-security/
July 7, 2020 - Even before the pandemic, it was clear that more money didn’t mean more real security.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/02/representative-barbara-lee-defund-pentagon-budget/
July 2, 2020 - The California representative is calling for reallocation from military budgets to meet human needs. And she’s got allies like Bernie Sanders.
Blog - /blog/2020/06/25/end-racism-militarism-us-now/
June 25, 2020 - U.S. budgets are characterized by a prioritization of militarization over human life and needs. It's time to defund.
Analysis - /analysis/2020/militarized-budget-2020/
June 22, 2020 - In 2019, the U.S. "militarized" budget amounted to 64.5 percent of discretionary spending.
