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The Pentagon Took COVID-19 Money for PPE and Bought Weapons Instead

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.

To Achieve Climate Justice, Demilitarize the Border

Blog - /blog/2020/09/25/achieve-climate-justice-demilitarize-border/

- Immigrant justice is climate justice. Demilitarization is core to achieving both. 

It’s a Pandemic. Military Spending Hikes Should Be Off the Table.

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.

15 Years After Hurricane Katrina, It's Time to Demilitarize Disaster Relief

Blog - /blog/2020/08/31/15-years-after-hurricane-katrina-its-time-to-demilitarize-disaster-relief/

- ...budget priorities can result in militaristic, rather than humanitarian, disaster response.

Small Towns Don't Need Military Helicopters

Blog - /blog/2020/08/27/small-towns-dont-need-military-helicopters/

- ...federal program dumps military equipment on local police forces. We need to end it.

Spending More on the Military Means Lining the Pockets of Top Defense Industry Executives

Blog - /blog/2020/08/21/spending-more-military-means-lining-pockets-top-defense-industry-executives/

- Under the Trump administration, the military-industrial revolving door has only spun faster, as more private sector executives make the jump to the public sector with little government or military exp...

Would the U.S. have COVID under control if we hadn’t overinvested in the Pentagon?

Blog - /blog/2020/07/17/would-us-have-covid-under-control-if-we-hadnt-overinvested-pentagon/

- ...federal budget to a just and equitable one.

Even Now, Our Leaders Are Still Putting Their Faith in the Rich

Blog - /blog/2020/05/28/even-now-our-leaders-are-still-putting-their-faith-rich/

- It has become crystal clear during this pandemic that working people fuel this economy, but they’re the ones bearing the cost.

Police Violence Is Enabled by Massive Spending

Blog - /blog/2020/06/08/police-violence-enabled-massive-spending/

- The Black Lives Matter protest movement shows again why America needs to defund bloated and militarized police departments.

The U.S. Military is a Major Polluter, but "Greening the Military" is a False Solution

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...

Against Coronavirus, the Defense Production Act Can Redirect Militarized Industries

Blog - /blog/2020/04/01/against-coronavirus-defense-production-act-redirect-militarized-industries/

- If civilian production can be shifted to be useful right now against the coronavirus, so should military production. This is an excellent time to invoke the Defense Production Act to redirect the indu...

If $1.5 Trillion Exists to Bail Out Wall Street from Coronavirus, We Can Fund Actual Needs for All

Blog - /blog/2020/03/12/trillion-wall-street-bailout-coronavirus-we-can-fund-all-actual-needs/

- ...Federal Reserve just injected $1.5 trillion into the banking system to prop up crashing markets spooked by the coronavirus pandemic. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that our government can’...

Against a Global Coronavirus Pandemic, the Trump Budget Keeps Militarizing America

Blog - /blog/2020/02/27/against-global-coronavirus-pandemic-trump-budget-keeps-militarizing-america/

- As fears grow of a global coronavirus 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. governm...

Trump's 2021 budget keeps ignoring the climate crisis

Blog - /blog/2020/02/12/trumps-2021-budget-keeps-ignoring-climate-crisis/

- ...federal government continues to operate in complete denial of the climate crisis. The Trump administration’s fourth budget proposal, released Monday, postures as if its spending priorities ...

Trump's 2021 budget cuts all federal agencies—except militarized ones

Blog - /blog/2020/02/11/trumps-2021-budget-cuts-all-federal-agencies-except-militarized-ones/

- ...budget proposal this week, and the priorities are crystal clear. Across the board, the 2021 budget request prioritizes brute force and militarization over humanitarian and diplomatic solutions. W...

Yes, We Really Can Cut the Pentagon to Pay for Medicare for All

Blog - /blog/2020/01/15/yes-we-really-can-cut-pentagon-pay-medicare-all/

- ...Federal Budget took issue with my October 17 op-ed in the The New York Times, “We Don’t Need to Raise Taxes to Have ‘Medicare for All.’” They got a couple of importa...

11% of the Military Budget Could Fund Enough Renewable Energy for Every Home in the US

Blog - /blog/2019/09/20/11-percent-military-budget-renewable-energy-every-home/

- There are 127,586,000 households total in the U.S., according to the most recent Census. The cost of wind power for the average US household for one year is $581.28  as of 2018, and the cost...

The Bipartisan $738 Billion Military Budget Deal

Blog - /blog/2019/08/09/bipartisan-738-billion-military-budget-deal/

- ...budget deal (now also Trump-approved) that will fund the federal government for the next two years, and help the United States avoid a potentially catastrophic default on its debt for the sa...

Trump's 4th of July Fiasco is a Salute to Pentagon Waste

Blog - /blog/2019/07/03/trade-offs-trumps-4th-july-salute-pentagon-waste/

- This 4th of July, President Trump is flaunting some of the Pentagon's deepest money pits on the National Mall.

What Still Wasn’t Said in Democratic Debate Night #2

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...