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/2020/08/27/small-towns-dont-need-military-helicopters/
- A little-known 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/2020/08/12/military-recruiters-dont-belong-high-schools/
- Military recruiters deliberately exploit the financial and social insecurities of teenagers to enlist more soldiers.
Blog - /blog/2020/07/29/global-crises-united-states-weaponizing-humanitarian-aid/
- Humanitarian aid is the form of foreign spending that we need to prioritize for a safer future, instead of ever-flowing military aid. But the US is weaponizing it.
Blog - /blog/2020/07/20/ten-better-uses-ten-percent-pentagon-budget/
- With military spending at historically high levels, and with additional increases under President Trump, a 10% cut is an overdue correction to the bloated Pentagon budget. Here's how we could spend th...
Blog - /blog/2020/07/17/would-us-have-covid-under-control-if-we-hadnt-overinvested-pentagon/
- It is tragically impossible to revert time to save a hundred thousand people from death, yet it is still possible for all of us to support and help kickstart the transformation of the U.S. federal bud...
Blog - /blog/2020/07/14/cut-pentagon-10-percent-invest-public-health/
- Tanks and ships can’t save us from our greatest dangers, so let’s pay for the things that can.
Blog - /blog/2020/07/07/camo-economy-hides-military-costs-and-exacerbates-inequality/
- Pentagon contractors like Lockheed Martin exploit their political connections to maintain a system that generates huge corporate profits and executive pay at taxpayer expense.
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/2020/02/27/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/2020/02/11/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/2020/02/10/trumps-2021-budget-gives-55-military/
- The president's 2021 budget proposal, delivered today, would put 55% of the $1.3 trillion discretionary budget toward the military.
Blog - /blog/2020/01/13/house-voted-stop-war-iran-now-its-senates-turn/
- It's time to call your Senator.
Blog - /blog/2020/01/03/call-congress-no-war-iran/
- War is imminent. Present Trump authorized a military strike to kill Iranian military leader Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani in Baghdad, an act that has driven the Iranians to swear retaliation.&n...
Blog - /blog/2019/10/23/trumps-endless-wars/
- Trump’s not bringing the troops home. He’s been haphazardly deploying more troops, drones, and dollars abroad, while waging a shadow foreign policy for his own benefit.
Blog - /blog/2019/09/01/remembering-frances-crowe/
- This week, Frances Crowe, the lifelong peace and anti-nuclear activist (among other causes), passed away. She was 100 years old, and she estimated that she’d been arrested for civil disobedience...
Blog - /blog/2019/08/09/bipartisan-738-billion-military-budget-deal/
- In July, lawmakers voted along bipartisan lines to pass a budget deal (now also Trump-approved) that will fund the federal government for the next two years, and help the United States ...
Blog - /blog/2019/07/18/ten-good-things-about-houses-too-big-military-budget/
- On Friday the House of Representatives voted 220-197 to approve a military budget of $733 billion through the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Blog - /blog/2019/07/09/amendments-2020-ndaa-good-actually/
- There are plenty of other issues at stake with FY 2020’s National Defense Authorization Act, beyond just how enormous the military’s budget will be.
