The U.S. Senate is poised this week to consider the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (NDAA) which would authorize a whopping $780 billion in military spending.
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re going to hold a bit of a respectful and civil debate.
This article was published with support from Columbia University’s Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights and the Gumshoe Group.
U.S. presidential election campaigns have been known to focus on the slogan “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Efforts to explain the behavior of the U.S. government ought to put a little more focus on a different slogan, found in the headline above.
The ballooning U.S. military budget (larger than the next ten countries combined) diverts funds from desperately-needed responses to both community health and social service needs, as well as climate crisis challenges.
National Guard units across the country have been called to battle wildfires, conduct rescue operations in flood-stricken areas, and respond broadly to disaster relief brought on by climate change.
