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.
Blog - /blog/2021/05/20/palestinian-lives-matter/
- We can’t say we support justice and human rights in this country while supporting violence and expulsion abroad.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/07/plan-end-poverty-united-states/
- A new congressional resolution asserts it’s not only possible to end poverty, but morally necessary.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/02/biden-unconscionable-military-budget/
- ...military bloat.
Blog - /blog/2021/08/09/rural-towns-deserve-better-prison-jobs/
- Rural prison towns need jobs. There are better ones than guarding people in cages.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/30/americas-nearly-13-trillion-national-security-budget-isnt-making-us-any-safer/
- Pouring more money into endless wars, nuclear weapons, overseas bases, and boondoggle weapons programs won't protect anyone.
Blog - /blog/2021/08/04/save-planet-we-need-demilitarize-police/
- Even with climate disasters all around us, nonviolent environmental demonstrations face fierce police repression. Why?
Blog - /blog/2021/07/30/dear-us-navy-dont-dump-your-ships-our-oceans/
- ...military has turned retired and decommissioned military equipment-- such as ships and tanks-- into artificial reefs.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/24/fight-poverty-cut-pentagon-budget/
- ...military wasn’t a way out of poverty. Instead, militarism is why so many of us are poor in the first place.
Blog - /blog/2021/05/14/pentagon-increase-size-entire-cdc-budget/
- President Biden proposed a Pentagon budget increase larger than the entire discretionary budget of the CDC.
Blog - /blog/2021/04/30/when-it-comes-climate-does-biden-put-his-money-where-his-mouth/
- Last week the White House convened a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate with forty leaders from the world's largest economies presenting their plans to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris C...
Blog - /blog/2021/04/28/us-now-spends-more-military-next-11-countries-combined/
- ...military expenditures compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). That's a military spending increase of 2.6 per cent in real terms since 2019, even as global gross ...
Blog - /blog/2021/04/16/bidens-pentagon-still-trumps-pentagon/
- With his Pentagon budget proposal last week, President Biden made clear his intention to continue in the footsteps of President Trump. The proposal called for an increase in Pentagon and war...
Blog - /blog/2021/04/09/biden-2022-budget-raises-military-spending-past-750-billion/
- Today, President Joe Biden unveiled his administration's FY 2022 “skinny budget” request. While not a full breakdown, the “skinny budget” offers a critical glimpse at topline d...
