Blog - /blog/2020/09/25/achieve-climate-justice-demilitarize-border/
- Immigrant justice is climate justice. Demilitarization is core to achieving both.
Blog - /blog/2020/09/16/its-pandemic-military-spending-hikes-should-be-off-table/
- ...military contractors have been unapologetically shaking down lawmakers for pandemic cash.
Blog - /blog/2020/09/23/us-war-terror-has-displaced-37-million-people/
- Here’s how we got these numbers — and what they can and can’t tell us.
Blog - /blog/2020/08/31/15-years-after-hurricane-katrina-its-time-to-demilitarize-disaster-relief/
- Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, it remains a cautionary tale for how distorted budget priorities can result in militaristic, rather than humanitarian, disaster r...
Blog - /blog/2020/08/27/small-towns-dont-need-military-helicopters/
- ...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/
- ...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 experience. But the influence-pedd...
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/
- ...military aid. But the US is weaponizing it.
Blog - /blog/2020/07/24/need-money-green-new-deal-get-it-ice/
- With the money we spend on ICE and CBP, we could solar power nearly 35 million homes.
Blog - /blog/2020/07/20/ten-better-uses-ten-percent-pentagon-budget/
- ...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 that $7...
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/2020/06/29/how-9-billion-funds-coronavirus-outbreaks-federal-prisons/
- Mass incarceration is leading to some of the worst coronavirus hotspots in the United States.
Blog - /blog/2020/06/12/defund-police-invest-communities/
- Local governments have a revenue problem, while America has a policing problem. There’s a simple solution.
Blog - /blog/2020/06/08/police-violence-enabled-massive-spending/
- The Black Lives Matter protest movement shows again why America needs to defund bloated and militarized police departments.
Blog - /blog/2020/05/14/pandemic-military-spending-extravagant-waste/
- In the very near future, countries are going to have to choose whether they make guns or vaccines.
Blog - /blog/2020/04/30/us-spends-military-spending-next-10-countries-combined/
- ...military spending. That's more than the next 10 countries combined, a marked increase from the previous year when it was merely larger than the next seven combined.
Blog - /blog/2020/05/04/if-us-military-major-polluter-why-not-green-military/
- ...military requires significant investment in carbon-intensive infrastructure and gas-guzzling equipment. The carbon footprint of the military is tremendous. So why isn’t “greening the milit...
Blog - /blog/2020/04/22/introducing-no-warming-no-war-how-militarism-fuels-climate-crisis-and-vice-versa/
- Today, on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, the National Priorities Project is proud to release No Warming, No War: How Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis - and Vice Versa.
