Blog - /blog/2021/10/07/three-ways-cut-1-trillion-pentagon-according-congressional-budget-office/
- ...ustrative Options for National Defense Under a Smaller Defense Budget,” that outlines three different options for cutting funding for the Department of Defense by $1 trillion, or 14 percent, ove...
Blog - /blog/2021/09/22/cut-pentagon-budget-ten-percent-fy-2022/
- ...Defense Authorization Act, the piece of legislation that sets the nation's military policy, and military budget. And, based on actions taken so far by the House Armed Services Committee, the Hous...
Blog - /blog/2021/06/11/osamas-ghost-economics-overextension/
- Twenty years 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/2021/05/20/palestinian-lives-matter/
- ...ustice and human rights in this country while supporting violence and expulsion abroad.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/30/americas-nearly-13-trillion-national-security-budget-isnt-making-us-any-safer/
- Pouring more money into endless wars, nuclear weapons, overseas bases, and boondoggle weapons programs won't protect anyone.
Blog - /blog/2021/04/16/bidens-pentagon-still-trumps-pentagon/
- ...spending from $740 billion fiscal year 2021 to $753 billion in fiscal year 2022.
Blog - /blog/2020/11/25/building-back-better-should-be-global-challenge/
- U.S. economic recovery efforts will not succeed if the global economy remains weak and serves only a small rich minority.
Blog - /blog/2020/12/17/us-needs-covid-relief-and-renewable-energy-not-space-force/
- Instead of wasting scarce funds on the Space Force, the Biden administration should deploy its diplomats to demilitarize space.
Blog - /blog/2020/10/02/pentagon-took-money-ppe-and-bought-weapons/
- Make no mistake: The Trump administration’s heartlessness and militarism are costing lives.
Blog - /blog/2020/09/28/pentagon-blew-1-billion-coronavirus-relief-funds-military-equipment/
- ...used much of $1 billion in congressionally appropriated COVID-19 relief funding, funneling it mostly to military contractors and using the money to make things like jet engine parts, body armor, ...
Blog - /blog/2020/09/16/its-pandemic-military-spending-hikes-should-be-off-table/
- Wildly profitable military contractors have been unapologetically shaking down lawmakers for pandemic cash.
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/2020/08/21/spending-more-military-means-lining-pockets-top-defense-industry-executives/
- ...defense industry isn't new, and it's hardly partisan.
Blog - /blog/2020/07/20/ten-better-uses-ten-percent-pentagon-budget/
- ...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 that $74 billion...
Blog - /blog/2020/07/17/would-us-have-covid-under-control-if-we-hadnt-overinvested-pentagon/
- ...usand people from death, yet it is still possible for all 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/
- 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/2020/05/14/pandemic-military-spending-extravagant-waste/
- In the very near future, countries are going to have to choose whether they make guns or vaccines.
Blog - /blog/2020/04/01/against-coronavirus-defense-production-act-redirect-militarized-industries/
- ...useful right now against the coronavirus, so should military production. This is an excellent time to invoke the Defense Production Act to redirect the industrial capacity of military contractors.
Blog - /blog/2020/02/27/against-global-coronavirus-pandemic-trump-budget-keeps-militarizing-america/
- ...us pandemic, the United States is in a poor situation to cope. Aggressive messaging from the White House assures the public that the "full weight of the U.S. government" is working to keep Americans s...
Blog - /blog/2020/02/12/trumps-2021-budget-keeps-ignoring-climate-crisis/
- ...spending priorities counter the next decade’s emerging threats, without a single mention of climate change.
