Analysis - /analysis/2020/no-warming-no-war/
April 22, 2020 - Climate change and militarism intersect in a variety of alarming ways: Recognizing that the impacts of climate change will dramatically increase instability around the globe, this paper examines ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/04/08/we-cant-rely-on-just-the-military/
April 8, 2020 - It might seem like the Pentagon can act as some sort of savior in confronting the coronavirus, but that’s unlikely.
Blog - /blog/2020/03/24/we-need-stimulus-serves-people-over-profit/
March 24, 2020 - Rather than restoring the status quo, we have the opportunity to forge a different path that invests in real security for Americans.
Analysis - /analysis/2020/tax-day-2020/
March 18, 2020 - Tax Day is delayed several months this year to July 15, 2020, due to the pandemic. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and how much?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/03/05/save-lives-shift-pentagon-spending-public-health/
March 5, 2020 - ...military challenges. The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) underscores this fact.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/03/03/reallocate-defense-spending-fund-needs-at-home/
March 3, 2020 - While primary candidates have ambitiously taken on many pressing issues impacting South Carolinians, there’s another thing I encourage them to address: an excessive Pentagon budget that prioriti...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/toll-poverty/
March 2, 2020 - ...military.19 - Every $1 invested in early childhood education leads to $7.30 in savings from increased earnings, better health, and lower incarcer...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/three-big-ideas-reducing-military-spending/
March 2, 2020 - ...military in nature: climate change, global economic inequality, and rising nationalism all do not have military solutions.
Analysis - /analysis/2020/fact-sheet-militarism-united-states/
March 2, 2020 - Militarism and violence are the hallmarks of U.S. policy at home and abroad. From war to mass incarceration and beyond, these policies amplify poverty, racism and environmental degradation. They can a...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/02/29/milwaukee-pays-high-price-for-war/
Feb. 29, 2020 - Since 2001, the total cost of America’s wars just to county taxpayers was $10.68 billion.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/02/24/nevada-county-group-urges-peace-through-budgets/
Feb. 24, 2020 - ...military is properly funded, the majority of military spending does not go toward U.S. military personnel.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/02/20/poor-peoples-campaign-spotlight-poverty/
Feb. 20, 2020 - ...military and toward human needs. At the June 20 march on Washington, the poor will be heard.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/02/12/centris-dems-want-military-response-climate-change/
Feb. 12, 2020 - ...military—the world’s most violent institution, and itself a climate villain—taking a leadership role in shaping the response to a crisis that could subject countless people...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/02/12/trump-budget-proposal-speaks-to-his-values/
Feb. 12, 2020 - When we talk about hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars, it’s easy to get lost in the massive numbers and to lose sight of what those changes in resources could really mean in the c...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/02/12/trump-budget-not-only-immoral-also-unaffordable/
Feb. 12, 2020 - With Medicare for All or a Green New Deal, critics constantly ask: how can we possibly pay for it? Yet in the wake of the new Trump Budget, which makes the 2017 tax cuts permanent and guns Pentagon sp...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/02/11/budgets-dont-lie-trump-enables-do/
Feb. 11, 2020 - Poverty is a moral crisis in America, but the Trump administration has changed the qualifying criteria for government assistance in order to celebrate that lower numbers of people now receive food sta...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/02/11/military-wasted-17-million-drone-improvements/
Feb. 11, 2020 - ...military” with very little oversight.
Analysis - /analysis/2020/president-trumps-2021-budget-prioritizes-pentagon/
Feb. 10, 2020 - ...military solutions over humanitarian and diplomatic ones.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/01/16/why-trump-only-candidate-with-budget-proposal/
Jan. 16, 2020 - Every presidential candidate ought to produce a basic outline of a federal discretionary budget to give taxpayers some idea of how they intend to spend.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/01/15/phyllis-bennis-january-2020-democratic-debate/
Jan. 15, 2020 - ...military commander, Qassem Soleimani.
