A Post-Coronavirus economy can no longer afford to put the Pentagon first. As it turns out, creating jobs through Pentagon spending is among the least effective ways to rebuild the economy.
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Make Cutting Military Budget a Campaign Issue
What Programs A 10% Cut In Military Spending Could Buy
| 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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The Beginning of the End for Ever-Rising Pentagon Budgets
| Katrina vanden Heuvel | In the long run, the Defense Department is not likely to escape the growing imperative of change.
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How the House Armed Services Committee Approved a Huge Military Budget …
| Glenn Greenwald | a massive $740.5 billion military spending package was approved …
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20 Congress Members Who Understand What’s Needed
| David Swanson | 20 members of Congress thus far have made themselves sponsor or cosponsor of a resolution to move major amounts of money out of wars and into human and environmental needs.
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Lawmakers Can Help the Poor by Supporting Cuts to Pentagon Budget
| 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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Defund the Pentagon, Too
| 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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Congressional Progressive Caucus: FY2021 NDAA Explainer
Congress faces growing pressure to direct more resources toward urgent domestic and global crises, rather than continuing endless wars.
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Contradictions and Absurdities in the House’s Military Spending Bill
| 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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