Blog - /blog/2021/01/19/open-letter-biden-administration-need-pandemic-pivot/
- It’s urgent not to return to the previous status quo. It’s time for creative thinking and bold action.
Blog - /blog/2020/11/16/election-over-congress-must-remember-rest-world/
- Even a lame-duck Congress must remember their actions have global consequences too.
Blog - /blog/2020/12/22/covid-deal-welcome-stopgap-congressional-progressives-aim-much-more-2021/
- The Progressive Caucus has unveiled a legislative agenda designed to meet the scale of the pandemic catastrophe and reduce our vulnerability to future crises.
Blog - /blog/2020/09/23/us-war-terror-has-displaced-37-million-people/
- Here’s how we got these numbers — and what they can and can’t tell us.
Blog - /blog/2020/07/14/cut-pentagon-10-percent-invest-public-health/
- Tanks and ships can’t save us from our greatest dangers, so let’s pay for the things that can.
Blog - /blog/2020/07/07/camo-economy-hides-military-costs-and-exacerbates-inequality/
- Pentagon contractors like Lockheed Martin exploit their political connections to maintain a system that generates huge corporate profits and executive pay at taxpayer expense.
Blog - /blog/2020/05/04/if-us-military-major-polluter-why-not-green-military/
- The largest industrial military in the world is also one of the biggest polluters. Maintaining a massive military requires significant investment in carbon-intensive infrastructure and gas-guzzling eq...
Blog - /blog/2020/02/11/trumps-2021-budget-cuts-all-federal-agencies-except-militarized-ones/
- President Trump released his fourth budget proposal this week, and the priorities are crystal clear. Across the board, the 2021 budget request prioritizes brute force and militarization over...
Blog - /blog/2020/01/03/call-congress-no-war-iran/
- War is imminent. Present Trump authorized a military strike to kill Iranian military leader Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani in Baghdad, an act that has driven the Iranians to swear retaliation.&n...
Blog - /blog/2019/10/23/trumps-endless-wars/
- Trump’s not bringing the troops home. He’s been haphazardly deploying more troops, drones, and dollars abroad, while waging a shadow foreign policy for his own benefit.
Blog - /blog/2019/07/18/ten-good-things-about-houses-too-big-military-budget/
- On Friday the House of Representatives voted 220-197 to approve a military budget of $733 billion through the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Blog - /blog/2019/06/28/what-still-wasnt-said-democratic-debate-night-2/
- Another ten candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination answered questions last night in the second of back-to-back debates. The contenders and moderators said a bit more about ou...
Blog - /blog/2019/05/17/united-states-and-saudi-arabia-take-top-two-spots-world-military-spending-person/
- Last week, the Stockholm International Peace Institute released their annual look at world military spending. Once again, the United States is on top. We spent more than one third of the world's total...
Blog - /blog/2019/03/19/trumps-174-billion-budget-lie/
- If Trump pretends that the Pentagon is also subject to strict spending limits, he can argue that his more than $50 billion in cuts to programs like the Environmental Protection Agency and Legal Aid ar...
Blog - /blog/2019/01/30/demilitarize-budget-fight-climate-change/
- While the Trump administration fixates on a militarized non-solution to the non-crisis at the border, the real crisis is staring us in the face: accelerating climate change. And demilitarizing the U.S...
Blog - /blog/2018/11/28/commission-wants-pentagon-budget-increase-nearly-1-trillion-2024/
- A national security commission calls for annual increases of 3-5% in the Department of Defense budget—that could result in military spending of $972 trillion in 2024. But the Pentagon just faile...
Blog - /blog/2018/11/20/pentagon-fails-audit-asks-raise/
- Asking for more money is not a good look for the Pentagon right now. But that’s just what a national security commission did last week, the day before the Pentagon announced that it had complete...
Blog - /blog/2018/06/12/diplomacy-better-war-north-korea/
- It would be overly cynical not to recognize the Singapore Summit's potential for good.
Blog - /blog/2018/05/27/memorializing-americas-wars/
- ...war as often as not – 37 of the last 78 years, not counting the Cold War.
Blog - /blog/2018/02/15/us-war-right-now-and-other-questions/
- ...war ever, with no end in sight; when the president routinely and offhandedly spouts threats of war; when the military budget is higher than at any...
