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.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/19/dismantle-war-economy/
June 19, 2020 - To create real security, we must slash the Pentagon budget and invest in meeting everyone’s basic human needs.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/16/barbara-lee-unveils-plan-cut-350-billion-pentagon/
June 16, 2020 - "Redundant nuclear weapons, off-books spending accounts, and endless wars in the Middle East don't keep us safe."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/08/morning-defense-senate-begins-ndaa-markup-today/
June 8, 2020 - “At a minimum,” the defense budget should be reduced “by cutting war spending and unnecessary weapons and service contracts,” says Lindsay Koshgarian, program director of ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/05/27/america-needs-coronavirus-cure-not-more-war/
May 27, 2020 - Progressive democrats look to reduce the defense budget.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/05/20/asian-american-groups-demand-biden-take-down-ad/
May 20, 2020 - A confrontational U.S. posture towards China, no matter who is in the White House, has dire implications. "If China and the United States get into an arms race, we will be taking those resources away ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/05/08/first-military-spending-last-in-covid19-response/
May 8, 2020 - COVID-19 is a dress rehearsal for the climate crisis, and right now we're failing.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/05/06/spending-trillions-defense-unprepared-disasters/
May 6, 2020 - The Pentagon has been talking about the dangers of climate change for decades, much more candidly than Congress or the White House, said Lorah Steichen, coauthor of the new report from National Priori...
