Massive Military Spending Will not Solve Three Greatest Threats to our Safety and Security
Currently, the United States spends at least three quarters of a trillion dollars each year on the Pentagon.
Currently, the United States spends at least three quarters of a trillion dollars each year on the Pentagon.
The United States funds most of the world’s most oppressive militaries, sells them weapons, and trains them.
Military spending allocated in the 2021 New Zealand Wellbeing Budget is $5,188,350,000 – an average of more than $99.7 million every week, and a 10.6% increase on actual spending in 2020.
On May 17, 2021, TAX DAY, WOMEN AGAINST WAR marked the GLOBAL DAYS OF ACTION ON MILITARY SPENDING (GDAMS) by exploring the tradeoffs which proposed increased spending on nuclear weapons and their modernization represent.
While the proposal for a global ceasefire during a disease pandemic has done the opposite of catching on, there are a few small signs of sanity and even of successful activism.
Coming from a developing country, I have a somewhat different view of sanctions because it has enabled me to see the actions of the US from both a positive and a not so positive perspective.
As 38 organizations that work in the United States, we are continually disappointed by the members of Congress and presidents that choose to purchase weapons and wage warfare at the expense of our communities and our children’s futures.
Denis Halliday is an exceptional figure in the world of diplomacy.
President Joe Biden is proposing a level of Pentagon spending so close to that of Trump’s last year in office that Bloomberg calls it a 0.4% reduction adjusting for inflation while Politico calls it a 1.5% increase and “effectively an inflation-adjusted budget boost.”