Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/09/11/oregon-fight-wildfire-helicopters-sent-afghanistan/
Sept. 11, 2020 - ...use the Department of Defense has sent them to Afghanistan to fight in the 20-year-old war.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/08/26/austerity-politics-wont-cut-pentagon-spending/
Aug. 26, 2020 - ...spending — and the military overreach it represents — the deficit fears deeply ingrained in American politics may seem like a nifty political means. But this is at best a short-term strate...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/ten-percent-pentagon-cut-would-return-us-obama-biden-levels/
Aug. 11, 2020 - ...ust-pass military spending and policy bill (the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, or “NDAA”), progressive lawmakers have put forward a proposal to cut the massive $7...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/ten-better-uses-10-pentagon-budget/
Aug. 11, 2020 - ...spending priorities, and could make a tremendous difference in other programs ranging from health care and education to job creation at a time when it is desperately needed.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/22/congress-blocks-pentagon-cut-10-things-instead/
July 22, 2020 - ...uses for the $74 billion than giving it to one of the world’s largest bureaucracies.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/21/americans-want-to-reinvest-10-percent-military/
July 21, 2020 - ...us. This week, members of Congress should vote to follow their lead.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/14/america-needs-transformative-foreign-policy/
July 14, 2020 - ...defense is both good policy and good politics. The public is ready for real change, not just incremental steps. If political office holders don’t seize this moment, we can expect a continui...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/14/beginning-of-end-for-rising-pentagon-budgets/
July 14, 2020 - The Pentagon is not likely to escape the growing imperative of change. And thanks to amendments to this year's NDAA, including demands for a 10 percent cut to the military budget, legislators won&rsqu...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/07/democrats-be-bold-on-national-security/
July 7, 2020 - Even before the pandemic, it was clear that more money didn’t mean more real security.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/07/02/representative-barbara-lee-defund-pentagon-budget/
July 2, 2020 - The California representative is calling for reallocation from military budgets to meet human needs. And she’s got allies like Bernie Sanders.
Analysis - /analysis/2020/local-resolution-end-transfer-military-equipment-police/
June 25, 2020 - ...Defense has transfered more than $7 billion worth of military equipment to more than 8,000 law enforcement agencies around the country through what is known as the 1033 Program. As part...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/militarized-budget-2020/
June 22, 2020 - ...spending.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/17/morning-defense-support-for-deep-pentagon-cuts/
June 17, 2020 - ...defense budget and recommends, among other options, winding down long-running wars and shuttering 60 percent of overseas bases to save money.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/16/barbara-lee-unveils-plan-cut-350-billion-pentagon/
June 16, 2020 - ...spending accounts, and endless wars in the Middle East don't keep us safe."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/08/morning-defense-senate-begins-ndaa-markup-today/
June 8, 2020 - ...defense budget should be reduced “by cutting war spending and unnecessary weapons and service contracts,” says Lindsay Koshgarian, program director of the National Priorities Project.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/05/27/america-needs-coronavirus-cure-not-more-war/
May 27, 2020 - ...defense budget.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/05/08/first-military-spending-last-in-covid19-response/
May 8, 2020 - COVID-19 is a dress rehearsal for the climate crisis, and right now we're failing.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/05/06/spending-trillions-defense-unprepared-disasters/
May 6, 2020 - ...use, said Lorah Steichen, coauthor of the new report from National Priorities Project. When it comes to taking on climate change, however, the military is mainly concerned with improving its...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/05/05/climate-crisis-war-slow-streets/
May 5, 2020 - ...ust kill people, but it is also killing the planet by worsening the climate crisis.
Analysis - /analysis/2020/no-warming-no-war/talking-points/
April 29, 2020 - General talking points on climate and militarism from the "No Warming, No War" report.
