Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/29/since-911-us-spent-21-trillion-militarism/
Sept. 29, 2021 - ...US has spent more than $21 trillion on militarization, surveillance, and repression, all in the name of security, according to the Institute for Policy Studies’ report, State of Insecurity:...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/24/dems-oppose-pentagon-cuts-receive-weapons-donation/
Sept. 24, 2021 - The latest passage of the NDAA "is particularly strong evidence that Pentagon contractors' interests easily take precedence over national security and the public interest for too many members of Congr...
Analysis - /analysis/2021/progress-pentagon-cuts-must-continue/
Sept. 23, 2021 - Two votes on cuts to the Pentagon budget today showed more members of Congress are willing to take a stand against a bloated Pentagon budget that has fueled endless wars and obscene profits for milita...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/21/bite-size-me-democrats-fear-transformation/
Sept. 21, 2021 - ...spending supersized and their domestic spending bite-sized.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/20/is-pentagon-budget-too-big/
Sept. 20, 2021 - ...defense budget is more than $700 billion dollars. How efficiently are those dollars being spent? Congress keeps appropriating more to the Pentagon. But some lawmakers say it's time for a differen...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/14/after-911-enemy-america-fought-itself/
Sept. 14, 2021 - A study was carried out by the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). Lindsay Koshgarian, director of the institute's "National Priorities Project," points that the direct and indirect c...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/09/why-are-americans-paying-32m-every-hour-war-911/
Sept. 9, 2021 - I was the sole member of Congress to vote against the war in Afghanistan. Congress has yet to stand up against endless militarism
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/09/war-on-terror-militarized-america-more-than-ever/
Sept. 9, 2021 - The War on Terror projected American power abroad with devastating consequences. But it also wrought suffering and waste at home, with consequences we’re still living with today.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/08/money-spent-on-war-prompts-thoughts-what-could-be/
Sept. 8, 2021 - ...us estimates of military spending against a global war on terror spurred on by the 9/11 attacks of 2001.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/07/imagine-last-20-years-fighting-climate-instead-war/
Sept. 7, 2021 - At the dawn of the new millennium, we directed our national resources in the exact wrong direction. But it’s not too late to turn things around.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/03/us-spent-21-trillion-on-militarization-since-911/
Sept. 3, 2021 - ...used it for human needs rather than killing people abroad.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/02/reports-war-on-terror-cost-21-trillion/
Sept. 2, 2021 - ...US war in Afghanistan during his first speech since the end of the two-decade military campaign there on Tuesday. Now, two recent reports show that the cost to the US and the rest of the globe is cons...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/02/war-on-terror-cost-21-trillion-killed-million/
Sept. 2, 2021 - The U.S. has spent $21 trillion on foreign and domestic militarization" since the fateful 2001 attacks that spawned the Afghanistan intervention, marking a new era of U.S.-led conflict across the glob...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/01/cost-post-911-security-state-21-trillion/
Sept. 1, 2021 - ...spending.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/01/biden-defends-ending-forever-wars-afghanistan/
Sept. 1, 2021 - Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, says Biden’s speech was honest about the costs of war and the need to get out, but she says it’s “clearly not true&rdquo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/08/31/as-afghan-war-ends-gop-adds-25-billion-military/
Aug. 31, 2021 - "They want billions more for war even as we withdraw from Afghanistan. We have to stop this amendment."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/08/25/lets-take-profit-out-of-war/
Aug. 25, 2021 - ...spending goes to military contractors -- who use that largesse to lobby for more war spending.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/07/20/americas-climate-security-dilemma/
July 20, 2021 - ...us about creating a more inclusive foreign policy, environmental security can’t be framed in military terms.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/07/15/advocacy-urge-pelosi-pentagon-infrastructure/
July 15, 2021 - More than 40 advocacy groups are urging congressional leadership to keep any Pentagon funding out of the upcoming infrastructure packages.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/07/08/45-Groups-Say-No-to-China-Cold-War/
July 8, 2021 - ...use and Congress.
