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.
Blog - /blog/2019/05/17/united-states-and-saudi-arabia-take-top-two-spots-world-military-spending-person/
- Last week, the Stockholm International Peace Institute released their annual look at world military spending. Once again, the United States is on top. We spent more than one third of the world's total...
Blog - /blog/2019/04/11/your-taxes-provided-48-billion-lockheed-martin-and-some-other-stuff/
- ...housing costs the average taxpayer less than a curling iron from Wal-Mart. The average American paid...
Blog - /blog/2019/03/19/trumps-174-billion-budget-lie/
- If Trump pretends that the Pentagon is also subject to strict spending limits, he can argue that his more than $50 billion in cuts to programs like the Environmental Protection Agency and Legal Aid ar...
