Stop Padding the Pentagon’s Budget, 86 Groups Tell Biden
Eighty-six national and state organizations pen a letter to President Biden calling to lower the amount of military spending in his Fiscal Year 2023 budget request.
Eighty-six national and state organizations pen a letter to President Biden calling to lower the amount of military spending in his Fiscal Year 2023 budget request.
This debate was held online on February 23, 2022, and was co-sponsored by World BEYOND War Central Florida and Veterans For Peace Chapter 136 The Villages, FL. The debaters were:
Despite a disagreement over some amendments in the Senate, the United States Congress is poised to pass a $778 billion military budget bill for 2022.
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.