Blog - /blog/2022/01/21/invest-climate-solutions-now-or-pay-deadly-costs-inaction-later/
- ...costly disasters totaled $145 billion.
Blog - /blog/2021/12/21/778-billion-pentagon-budget-our-lump-coal/
- ...ward a solution to the climate crisis? And what if instead you got a $778 billion check for war profiteering?
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/2021/09/09/911-20-two-decades-missed-opportunities/
- ...of what we’ve spent on militarization these last 20 years, we could start to make life much better.
Blog - /blog/2021/08/16/we-should-rededicate-afghan-war-funds-refugee-resettlement/
- ...of investment could pay up-front refugee relocation costs of $15,148 for 1.2 million people.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/11/osamas-ghost-economics-overextension/
- ...of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/07/plan-end-poverty-united-states/
- A new congressional resolution asserts it’s not only possible to end poverty, but morally necessary.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/30/americas-nearly-13-trillion-national-security-budget-isnt-making-us-any-safer/
- ...wars, nuclear weapons, overseas bases, and boondoggle weapons programs won't protect anyone.
Blog - /blog/2021/03/19/18-years-invasion-iraq/
- ...costs of war are just too high. We must end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the next time our leaders inevitably argue for the necessity of war, it’s up to us to resist.
Blog - /blog/2021/02/26/syria-strike-and-americas-broken-foreign-policy/
- ...of law, respects the sovereignty of other nations, and respects human life in all nations.
Blog - /blog/2021/02/19/returning-paris-start-next-we-need-new-internationalism-climate/
- The United States' reentry to the Paris Climate Agreement is critical, but far from the sufficient. The path to a livable future requires new internationalism rooted in global cooperation, resour...
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/2020/12/22/covid-deal-welcome-stopgap-congressional-progressives-aim-much-more-2021/
- ...of the pandemic catastrophe and reduce our vulnerability to future crises.
Blog - /blog/2020/09/16/its-pandemic-military-spending-hikes-should-be-off-table/
- ...ofitable military contractors have been unapologetically shaking down lawmakers for pandemic cash.
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/2020/08/27/small-towns-dont-need-military-helicopters/
- A little-known federal program dumps military equipment on local police forces. We need to end it.
Blog - /blog/2020/07/20/ten-better-uses-ten-percent-pentagon-budget/
- With military spending at historically high levels, and with additional increases under President Trump, a 10% cut is an overdue correction to the bloated Pentagon budget. Here's how we could spend th...
Blog - /blog/2020/07/17/would-us-have-covid-under-control-if-we-hadnt-overinvested-pentagon/
- ...of us to support and help kickstart the transformation of the U.S. federal budget to a just and equitable one.
Blog - /blog/2020/07/07/camo-economy-hides-military-costs-and-exacerbates-inequality/
- ...ofits and executive pay at taxpayer expense.
Blog - /blog/2020/05/14/pandemic-military-spending-extravagant-waste/
- In the very near future, countries are going to have to choose whether they make guns or vaccines.
