Congress faces growing pressure to direct more resources toward urgent domestic and global crises, rather than continuing endless wars.
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|Tristan Guyette| It’s time we stop prioritizing weapons before citizens and re-evaluate our funding of nuclear weapons.
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| John Nichols | Bernie Sanders holds up a Pentagon spending bill to force a Senate vote on $2,000 payments …
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It’s perfectly clear that Donald Trump considers just about every last one of us a sucker and that’s not news at all.
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| Gabe Murphy | This week the US House of Representatives failed to pass an amendment to the military budget that would have cut it by 10 percent. Common Dreams reports:
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| Katrina vanden Heuvel | In the long run, the Defense Department is not likely to escape the growing imperative of change.
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| Glenn Greenwald | a massive $740.5 billion military spending package was approved …
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| Sister Mary Pendergast and Sister Patricia Moriarty | As Sisters of Mercy who work closely with people living in poverty, we urge all of our legislators to support a proposal that would cut Pentagon spending
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| William D. Hartung | Any effort to reduce police spending and focus on social programs should include massive cuts to the Pentagon’s bloated budget. Distorted funding priorities aren’t the only driving force behind police violence …
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| Richard Eskow | There is simply no logic to it—other than the inexorable logic of war profiteering and global control. The bill is filled with moral contradictions and … absurdities.
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Read the text of Resolution passed by the Allegheny Council, Pennsylvania.
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New York City – like cities and towns across the nation – has been shortchanged for decades. Even before the ten-year Sequester that cut social funding to the bone …
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