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...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/no-warming-no-war/
April 22, 2020 - Climate change and militarism intersect in a variety of alarming ways: Recognizing that the impacts of climate change will dramatically increase instability around the globe, this paper examines ...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/tax-day-2020/
March 18, 2020 - Tax Day is delayed several months this year to July 15, 2020, due to the pandemic. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and how much?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/03/05/save-lives-shift-pentagon-spending-public-health/
March 5, 2020 - The security of United States and the world depends on far more than throwing money at the Pentagon to deal with potential military challenges. The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) unde...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/03/03/reallocate-defense-spending-fund-needs-at-home/
March 3, 2020 - While primary candidates have ambitiously taken on many pressing issues impacting South Carolinians, there’s another thing I encourage them to address: an excessive Pentagon budget that prioriti...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/toll-poverty/
March 2, 2020 - ...housing among families with children will cost the U.S. $111 billion in avoidable health and special education costs over the next ten years.2 - ...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/three-big-ideas-reducing-military-spending/
March 2, 2020 - The time has come for an end to the United States ill-conceived wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the moment is ripe for a new peace dividend. Today’s threats are mostly non-military in nature: ...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/fact-sheet-what-buy-instead-border-wall-updated/
March 2, 2020 - ...housing, nutrition and health care programs. Here are 5 ways Congress should invest $11.5 billion in our families, rather than tearing families apart: 1. BOOST FEDERAL FUNDING TO ...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/fact-sheet-militarism-united-states/
March 2, 2020 - Militarism and violence are the hallmarks of U.S. policy at home and abroad. From war to mass incarceration and beyond, these policies amplify poverty, racism and environmental degradation. They can a...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/02/12/trump-budget-proposal-speaks-to-his-values/
Feb. 12, 2020 - When we talk about hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars, it’s easy to get lost in the massive numbers and to lose sight of what those changes in resources could really mean in the c...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/02/11/budgets-dont-lie-trump-enables-do/
Feb. 11, 2020 - Poverty is a moral crisis in America, but the Trump administration has changed the qualifying criteria for government assistance in order to celebrate that lower numbers of people now receive food sta...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/01/10/as-we-work-t-prevent-iran-war-time-to-end-all-wars/
Jan. 10, 2020 - Progressives are rightly mobilizing in force against war with Iran. Preventing another war is certainly imperative. In addition, we must recognize it is past time to end the endless wars in Iraq and A...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/12/15/hartung-lessons-battling-pentagon-four-decades/
Dec. 15, 2019 - As even Donald Trump has acknowledged, those trillions could have gone far in repairing America’s infrastructure and doing so much else in this country. In truth, as Lindsay Koshgarian of t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/11/28/justice-opportunity-can-be-ours-in-abundance/
Nov. 28, 2019 - The outpouring of charitable giving we witness around the holidays reminds us of both the tremendous generosity of communities and our government’s failure to create a moral budget tha...
