Blog - /blog/2022/02/09/we-shouldnt-have-rely-national-guard-basic-services/
- ...military, maybe they wouldn’t have to.
Blog - /blog/2022/02/07/us-competes-china-what-cost/
- The House passed a sweeping bill to counter China economically, the America COMPETES Act, with $52 billion for fund the production of computer chips. What else could that pay for?
Blog - /blog/2022/01/31/will-us-stoke-war-ukraine-while-world-burns/
- ...military solutions, and a heap of other dire problems are being relegated to lower priority status in the meantime. It’s time for the U.S. to evolve - to look for diplomatic solutions, and start...
Blog - /blog/2022/01/25/climate-crisis-covid-19-pandemic-our-militarized-budget-priorities-fuel-injustice/
- While climate change fuels migration, the United States hardens its southern border instead of investing in real sources of safety for people in this country and around the world.
Blog - /blog/2022/01/21/invest-climate-solutions-now-or-pay-deadly-costs-inaction-later/
- A new study finds that the United States experienced 20 separate billion-dollar climate and weather disasters in 2021. The damages from these 20 costly disasters totaled $145 billion. ...
Blog - /blog/2022/01/17/martin-luther-king-jrs-internationalist-vision-more-crucial-ever/
- ...military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” If we take King’s words seriously...
Blog - /blog/2021/12/21/778-billion-pentagon-budget-our-lump-coal/
- What if you wanted less child poverty, better health care, more help with child care and elder care, and at least a gesture toward a solution to the climate crisis? And what if instead you got a $778 ...
Blog - /blog/2021/10/28/us-military-contracts-totaled-34-trillion-over-ten-years/
- Source: Chart by National Priorities Project, data from USAspending.gov. As Democrats negotiate the Build Back Better bill from $3.5 trillion (over ten years) down to $1.75 trillion over ten yea...
Blog - /blog/2021/10/20/hypocrisy-federal-spending-debate/
- Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich?
Blog - /blog/2021/10/06/immigration-cruelty-goes-beyond-border/
- Migrants are hit long before they migrate, before they reach the border, and often long after they cross it.
Blog - /blog/2021/10/07/three-ways-cut-1-trillion-pentagon-according-congressional-budget-office/
- Today the Congressional Budget Office released a new report, “Illustrative Options for National Defense Under a Smaller Defense Budget,” that outlines three different options for cutt...
Blog - /blog/2021/09/22/cut-pentagon-budget-ten-percent-fy-2022/
- ...military policy, and military budget. And, based on actions taken so far by the House Armed Services Committee, the House is positioned to approve nearly $780 billion in military spending. ...
Blog - /blog/2021/09/21/npp-trade-offs-tool-shows-us-exactly-what-resources-we-could-invest-when-we-divest-ice-cbp/
- Congress has the resources to invest in our community.
Blog - /blog/2021/09/09/911-20-two-decades-missed-opportunities/
- For just a fraction of what we’ve spent on militarization these last 20 years, we could start to make life much better.
Blog - /blog/2021/08/16/we-should-rededicate-afghan-war-funds-refugee-resettlement/
- In 2020, the Pentagon budgeted $18.6 billion for its Afghanistan operations. That level of investment could pay up-front refugee relocation costs of $15,148 for 1.2 million people.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/11/osamas-ghost-economics-overextension/
- ...military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation.
Blog - /blog/2021/07/02/why-bidens-foreign-policy-so-conventional/
- America is back—to the same old, same old.
Blog - /blog/2021/03/24/day-i-became-anti-war/
- A personal recollection on the day that launched the Iraq War — and its lessons for us 18 years later.
Blog - /blog/2021/04/12/stop-calling-it-border-crisis/
- People escaping violence have a right to seek safety. If they can’t, that’s the real crisis.
Blog - /blog/2021/05/05/humanizing-people-police-kill/
- The standard, often unreliable reporting on police killings dehumanizes victims — a fact my own family knows too well.
