Blog - /blog/2023/06/28/peek-poor-people-campaigns-moral-poverty-action-congress/
- Last week, hundreds of people from the Poor People's Campaign assembled in Washington DC to fight against poverty.
Blog - /blog/2023/05/31/parity-schmarity-military-big-winner-fy-2024-budget-deal/
- The budget deal struck by the White House and House Republicans begins what could be a long-term shift in federal spending from domestic programs toward the Pentagon.
Blog - /blog/2023/05/04/us-still-spends-more-its-military-over-144-countries-combined/
- Over-investment in the military is a major cause of the crises we face today. But it’s possible to reinvest in real solutions and begin to repair the harm caused by many decades of war.
Blog - /blog/2023/04/19/breaking-down-your-tax-bill/
- Our tax dollars should make life better, not go to waste. But the average taxpayer had to shell out over $1,000 for military contractors alone last year.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/27/biden-budget-does-some-good-poverty-and-fairness-it-could-do-more-if-it-cut-pentagon/
- ...housing, education, public health, and more.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/15/one-highest-military-budgets-history/
- Current military spending is higher than the height of military spending during the Reagan years at the height of the Cold War. Looking further back, the Biden request is higher than the height of the...
Blog - /blog/2023/03/09/quarter-bidens-budget-will-go-pentagon-contractors/
- While more than half of the federal discretionary budget under the president’s proposal would go to the military, fully two-thirds would go to a combination of the military, veterans’ prog...
Blog - /blog/2022/11/15/defueling-red-hill-not-enough-its-time-demilitarize-asia-pacific/
- It’s time for progressives to add our voices and demand demilitarization so that people in Hawai’i, Guam, Okinawa and elsewhere can live free from the environmental and human degradations ...
Blog - /blog/2022/09/07/relieving-all-student-debt-would-cost-much-f35-jet-fighter/
- Total student loan debt in the United States amounts to $1.7 trillion — that's already how much the Pentagon is set to spend on its most expensive weapon system, the F-35 jet fighter.
Blog - /blog/2022/07/08/dont-give-100-billion-pentagon-do-instead/
- Even $100 billion is actually a modest cut when it comes to the Pentagon. We could cut much more and end up even safer. But when that $37 billion or $100 billion can do so much good elsewhere, it's un...
Blog - /blog/2022/07/06/while-nation-reels-pentagon-budget-keeps-ramping-nuclear-weapons/
- In the colossal military spending budget set to pass as part of the FY23 National Defense Authorization Act, the amount spent on nuclear weapons alone over the next decade is much more than the defici...
Blog - /blog/2022/06/24/pentagon-increases-2022-could-almost-fund-build-back-better/
- Remember Build Back Better? Way back in December, President Biden and advocates across a wide spectrum of issues fought to fund the president's signature plan, which included major new invve...
Blog - /blog/2022/03/16/military-aid-ukraine-balloons-real-solutions-diplomacy-human-needs/
- Pentagon budget boosters are using the Russian invasion of Ukraine as an excuse for higher military spending, on top of an already record high military budget.
Blog - /blog/2022/03/03/bidens-state-union-address-showcased-disconnect-spending-priorities/
- ...housing, public health, and medical and scientific research combined.
Blog - /blog/2022/02/18/biden-may-push-military-budget-above-800-billion-do-you-feel-safe-yet/
- It’s unconscionable to pour more money into the Pentagon while the country comes apart at the seams. There’s still time for the Biden administration to pull back and stop the endless spend...
Blog - /blog/2022/02/07/us-competes-china-what-cost/
- The House passed a sweeping bill to counter China economically, the America COMPETES Act, with $52 billion for fund the production of computer chips. What else could that pay for?
Blog - /blog/2022/01/31/will-us-stoke-war-ukraine-while-world-burns/
- As usual, there are no military solutions, and a heap of other dire problems are being relegated to lower priority status in the meantime. It’s time for the U.S. to evolve - to look for diplomat...
Blog - /blog/2021/10/20/hypocrisy-federal-spending-debate/
- Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich?
Blog - /blog/2021/10/06/immigration-cruelty-goes-beyond-border/
- Migrants are hit long before they migrate, before they reach the border, and often long after they cross it.
Blog - /blog/2021/09/22/cut-pentagon-budget-ten-percent-fy-2022/
- This week the House of Representatives is voting on the National Defense Authorization Act, the piece of legislation that sets the nation's military policy, and military budget. And, based on&nbs...
