Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/02/23/risk-of-war-financial-burden-americans/
Feb. 23, 2022 - The United States has provided $650 million in defense equipment and services to Ukraine this past year alone amid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/02/07/america-competes-act-feeds-china-tensions/
Feb. 7, 2022 - "Prioritizing any version of the bill over all the ongoing crises that people are dealing with today in the U.S. shows that getting an edge over China is apparently our government's most urgent priori...
Analysis - /analysis/2021/national-priorities-project-institute-policy-studies-condemns-passage-768-billio/
Dec. 8, 2021 - The House of Representatives yesterday voted to approve a $768 billion Pentagon bill. National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies released the following statement.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/11/19/progressive-slam-shameful-25-billion-pentagon/
Nov. 19, 2021 - "Congress must resist the demands of the military-industrial complex, and instead heed calls to invest taxpayer dollars into true human needs."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/10/19/senate-panel-approves-extra-29-billion-pentagon/
Oct. 19, 2021 - The Senate committee vote included $10 billion more than requested. "That's $100 billion over 10 years—or half the cost of universal pre-K, which we're told we can't afford," said one critic.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/10/15/pentagon-bloated-budget-undermines-democracy/
Oct. 15, 2021 - ...budget is a colossal waste of resources that could be better used elsewhere. But it’s also an outrage to democracy.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/10/03/climate-crisis-vs-military-spending/
Oct. 3, 2021 - The Climate Crisis is the most-certain and the most-immediate of any of the threats the U.S. faces, including the military.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/30/21-trillion-20-years-war-no-human-infrastructure/
Sept. 30, 2021 - Since Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. has spent a mindboggling $21 trillion on foreign and domestic militarization. Meanwhile, the entire Republican Party and a handful of centrist Democrats are trying to bl...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/29/since-911-us-spent-21-trillion-militarism/
Sept. 29, 2021 - Since the 9/11 attacks, the 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’ repor...
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...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/20/is-pentagon-budget-too-big/
Sept. 20, 2021 - ...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 different approa...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/14/after-911-enemy-america-fought-itself/
Sept. 14, 2021 - ...Federal Government's global war on terror inside and outside the United States in the last 20 years have cost American taxpayers $21 trillion.
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/millennial-lawmakers-fresh-takes-foreign-policy/
Sept. 8, 2021 - Millennials who were just kids on 9/11 are now old enough to hold office. Research shows they're likely to see the world much differently than older generations because of their formative age at the t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/08/reparations-money-us-spent-21-trillion-military/
Sept. 8, 2021 - One of the arguments against the U.S. paying reparations to the descendants of American slaves is that such a program would be too expensive — that the U.S. just can’t afford it.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/08/money-spent-on-war-prompts-thoughts-what-could-be/
Sept. 8, 2021 - Some people consider the $3.5 trillion infrastructure proposal being proposed by congressional Democrats a huge chunk of change. But it pales compared to various estimates of military spending against...
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 - The cost of the War on Terror and its catastrophic consequences at home and abroad are staggering: $21 trillion, according to a new report. Imagine what we could do with that money if we used it for h...
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...
Analysis - /analysis/2021/state-insecurity-cost-militarization-911/
Sept. 1, 2021 - Over 20 years, the U.S. has spent more than $21 trillion on militarization, surveillance, and repression — all in the name of security. These investments have shown us that the U.S. has the capa...
