Going Down the Military Drain
Late last month, President Biden signed a bill that clears the way for $858 billion in Pentagon spending and nuclear weapons work at the Department of Energy in 2023. That’s far more than Washington…
Military Spending
The Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy Drives Record Military Spending
More than two millennia ago, in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides recounted a disastrous conflict Athens waged against Sparta. A masterwork on strategy and war, the book is still…
The Nightmare of Military Spending on an Overheating Planet
A Big Carbon Bootprint and a Giant Sucking Sound in the National Budget On October 1st, the U.S. military will start spending the more than $800 billion Congress is going…
The Costs of War (to You) – Where So Much of Our Money Really Went
As a Navy spouse of 10 years and counting, my life offers an up-close view of our country’s priorities when it comes to infrastructure and government spending. Recently, my husband, a naval…
Why Is U.S. Military Spending Increasing to New, Outlandish Levels?
Although critics of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan to increase funding for U.S. education, healthcare, and action against climate catastrophe say the United States can’t afford it, there…
Social Security Versus National Security – Whose Entitlement Really Makes Us Safer?
These days my conversations with friends about the new administration go something like this: “Biden’s doing better than I thought he would.” “Yeah. Vaccinations, infrastructure, acknowledging racism in policing. A…
Squad & Co: Unite as a Block to Downsize Biden’s Military Budget
Written by Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd Imagine this scenario: A month before the vote on the federal budget, progressives in Congress declared, “We’ve studied President Biden’s proposed $753 billion…
Amidst pandemic and economic sufferings, 2020’s global military spending reached highest level in decades
Military spending around the world has increased to unprecedented level since 1988 despite economic suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the U.S. was ahead of all the countries again,…
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