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/2020/09/25/achieve-climate-justice-demilitarize-border/
- Immigrant justice is climate justice. Demilitarization is core to achieving both.
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/2020/08/31/15-years-after-hurricane-katrina-its-time-to-demilitarize-disaster-relief/
- ...budget priorities can result in militaristic, rather than humanitarian, disaster response.
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.
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...
Blog - /blog/2020/07/17/would-us-have-covid-under-control-if-we-hadnt-overinvested-pentagon/
- ...federal budget to a just and equitable one.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...