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/
- President Trump released his fourth budget proposal this week, and the priorities are crystal clear. Across the board, the 2021 budget request prioritizes brute force and militarization over...
Blog - /blog/2020/01/09/threat-war-inflates-stock-holdings-military-contractor-ceos/
- As long as we allow the top executives of our privatized war economy to reap unlimited rewards, the profit motive for war in Iran — or anywhere — will persist.
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/
- ...federal government for the next two years, and help the United States avoid a potentially catastrophic default on its debt for the same period. But the deal didn’t come cheap: it came at the pri...
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...
Blog - /blog/2019/06/25/pentagons-climate-impact-threat-our-planet/
- New research on the DoD's carbon emissions shows how the US military itself is a force driving climate chaos.
Blog - /blog/2019/03/25/trump-budget-trade-offs-2020/
- America's military budget is so huge that the Trump budget's proposed increases for FY 2020 can seem like a drop in the bucket. But let's compare the value of some of Trump's most extra prioritie...
Blog - /blog/2019/03/19/trumps-174-billion-budget-lie/
- ...federal spending.
Blog - /blog/2019/03/11/trumps-fy2020-budget-request/
- At long last, President Trump released his third presidential budget request today, after a month-long delay due to the government shutdown. And it’s a doozy.
Blog - /blog/2019/02/21/how-much-could-we-buy-70-top-marginal-tax-rate/
- ...federal government pay for if the top marginal tax rate was raised to 70 percent?
Blog - /blog/2019/02/14/tell-congress-use-their-power-no-national-emergency-border/
- ...federal funds to build his wall, according to reports today.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/25/border-solution-must-not-include-wall/
- It’s time to end this shutdown once and for all, and it’s time to end the fiction that Americans want or need a wall at our border.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/30/demilitarize-budget-fight-climate-change/
- While the Trump administration fixates on a militarized non-solution to the non-crisis at the border, the real crisis is staring us in the face: accelerating climate change. And demilitarizing the U.S...
Blog - /blog/2019/01/04/shutdown-day-14/
- If anyone wins, let’s hope it’s the majority of Americans who want nothing to do with border walls or shutdowns.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/22/government-shutdown-2018/
- As of midnight on Friday, major parts of the U.S. government are closed.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/17/government-shutdown-looms-over-trumps-border-wall-funding/
- ...federal government for the rest of the 2019 fiscal year.
