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.
Blog - /blog/2020/04/01/against-coronavirus-defense-production-act-redirect-militarized-industries/
- ...military production. This is an excellent time to invoke the Defense Production Act to redirect the industrial capacity of military contractors.
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/2020/02/14/trump-2021-budget-cuts-diplomacy-and-foreign-aid-increases-foreign-military-aid/
- The numbers speak for themselves. This budget is a recipe for war.
Blog - /blog/2020/02/12/trumps-2021-budget-keeps-ignoring-climate-crisis/
- After rounding out the hottest decade on record, the federal government continues to operate in complete denial of the climate crisis. The Trump administration’s fourth budget proposal...
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/
- ...military.
Blog - /blog/2020/01/13/house-voted-stop-war-iran-now-its-senates-turn/
- It's time to call your Senator.
