Dobos sets aside the question of whether any war can be justified, arguing instead that “there may be cases where the costs and risks generated by a military establishment are too great for its existence to be justified, and this is even if we think that some wars are necessary and consistent with the demands of morality.”
Dr Alison Broinowski, AM, discusses the long proposed legislative reforms that would require parliamentary discussion prior to commitment of Australian forces to international deployment rather than the existing powers conferred solely on the prime minister and constitutionally on the governor general as commander in chief.
Hosted by Ryan Black of RootsAction and ProgressiveHub, guests Lindsay Koshgarian of the National Priorities Project, David Swanson of RootsAction and World BEYOND War, and Khury Petersen-Smith, Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies explore and discuss out-of-control Pentagon spending and the military budget.
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.
