Analysis - /analysis/2020/ten-better-uses-10-pentagon-budget/
Aug. 11, 2020 - A $74 billion cut is a strong step toward better spending priorities, and could make a tremendous difference in other programs ranging from health care and education to job creation at a time when it ...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/no-warming-no-war/en-espanol-no-mas-calentamiento-no-mas-guerra/
July 27, 2020 - Lea en español: de cómo el militarismo alimenta la crisis climática y vice versa
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/23/move-to-trim-military-budget-ten-percent-thwarted/
July 23, 2020 - ...military operations, but would make a massive difference to any number of social priorities that currently receive fractions of military funding — especially during an ongoing pandemic and inten...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/22/congress-blocks-pentagon-cut-10-things-instead/
July 22, 2020 - The National Priorities Project has put together a list of ten better uses for the $74 billion than giving it to one of the world’s largest bureaucracies.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/21/americans-want-to-reinvest-10-percent-military/
July 21, 2020 - Most people in the U.S. agree: it's time to reinvest from the bloated miitary budget to real human needs, like containing coronavirus. This week, members of Congress should vote to follow their lead.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/20/americans-support-cutting-pentagon-for-real-needs/
July 20, 2020 - A 10 percent cut to the Pentagon could come from a multitude of places, including: ending our never-ending wars in the Middle East, reducing our reliance on nuclear weapons, and turning off the spigot...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/no-warming-no-war/727-webinar-connecting-militarism-climate-crisis/
July 17, 2020 - If you want to better understand the connections between militarism, racism, and the climate crisis, watch our "No Warming, No War" webinar from Monday, July 27!
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/14/america-needs-transformative-foreign-policy/
July 14, 2020 - “Going bold” on the creation of a an alternative approach to defense is both good policy and good politics. The public is ready for real change, not just incremental steps. If politic...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/14/beginning-of-end-for-rising-pentagon-budgets/
July 14, 2020 - ...military budget, legislators won’t be able to hide what side of history they are on.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/14/cut-pentagon-10-percent-invest-in-public-health/
July 14, 2020 - Tanks and ships can’t save us from our greatest dangers, so let’s pay for the things that can.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/08/defund-the-pentagon-too/
July 8, 2020 - Any effort to reduce police spending and focus on social programs should include massive cuts to the Pentagon’s bloated budget.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/07/democrats-be-bold-on-national-security/
July 7, 2020 - Even before the pandemic, it was clear that more money didn’t mean more real security.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/02/representative-barbara-lee-defund-pentagon-budget/
July 2, 2020 - ...military budgets to meet human needs. And she’s got allies like Bernie Sanders.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/30/rethinking-military-budget-amid-coronavirus-crisis/
June 30, 2020 - The U.S. government’s refusal to prepare for the coronavirus is exposing the sham of American “exceptionalism” in real-time.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/28/defunding-police-means-defunding-pentagon-too/
June 28, 2020 - US war profiteering is taking taxpayer dollars away from critical domestic social services.
Analysis - /analysis/2020/local-resolution-end-transfer-military-equipment-police/
June 25, 2020 - ...military equipment to more than 8,000 law enforcement agencies around the country through what is known as the 1033 Program. As part of the larger effort to defund the police, invest in communiti...
Blog - /blog/2020/06/25/end-racism-militarism-us-now/
June 25, 2020 - U.S. budgets are characterized by a prioritization of militarization over human life and needs. It's time to defund.
Analysis - /analysis/2020/militarized-budget-2020/
June 22, 2020 - In 2019, the U.S. "militarized" budget amounted to 64.5 percent of discretionary spending.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/21/moral-agenda-troubled-america/
June 21, 2020 - Whenever we demand what we know is necessary for all people to thrive, politicians who have accommodated themselves to America's inequality ask, "But how would we pay for it?" The Poor People's C...
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.
