| 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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Category: Community Responses and Actions
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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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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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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Bailouts for Weapons Firms, Tent Cities for Vets: Covid Reveals U.S. Military Priorities
| H. Patricia Hynes | How is it that a country that spends nearly $1 trillion each year on the military, national security … and weapons … needs charity for its veterans?
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Bernie, Amendments, and Moving the Money
| David Swanson | Senator Bernie Sanders has … proposed to introduce legislation to move a significant amount of money from militarism to human and environmental needs …
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Audit The Outlaw Military Budget Draining America’s Necessities
| Ralph Nader | Top military, diplomatic, and political leaders have exposed, warned of, and condemned our runaway, unaudited military budgets for decades, to no avail …
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Too Much Military Spending Got Us into This Mess
| Neta C. Crawford and Catherine Lutz | The coronavirus pandemic — and all its far-ranging societal, economic, and global consequences — are the manifestation of four …
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