Sep 1, 2021
“Our $21 trillion investment in militarism has cost far more than dollars. It has cost the lives of civilians and troops lost in war, and the lives ended or torn apart by our brutal and punitive immigration, policing and mass incarceration systems.”
Aug 25, 2021
There are obvious links between anti-war movements against U.S. militarism and Black Lives Matter activism against police brutality. Is time for activists to join forces?
Aug 19, 2021
More Afghan-like tragedies will be inevitable until we squeeze the personal profit out of prepping for war.
Aug 11, 2021
Phyllis Bennis joins Democracy Now! to discuss the latest from Afghanistan, including the Taliban’s recent capture of three more provincial capitals.
Aug 10, 2021
The increase would have come on top of the more than $750 billion the budget resolution already reserved for the Pentagon.
Aug 4, 2021
It’s beautiful that there’s an Olympic team for 82 million displaced people. But have we accepted mass displacement as the new normal?
Jul 21, 2021
Instead of resetting U.S. relations with Iran, Biden has mostly continued the course of aggression set by the Trump Administration.
Jul 1, 2021
The human and economic costs of Donald Rumsfeld’s wars are staggering.
Jun 30, 2021
America is back—to the same old, same old.
Jun 9, 2021
Congress rarely links poverty to militarism, but that’s about to change.
Jun 2, 2021
With the Afghanistan War finally ending, we shouldn’t squander our “peace dividend” on costly weapons or military bloat.
May 14, 2021
One of the most confounding decisions in the president’s budget request was the decision to increase the Pentagon and war budgets.
Apr 28, 2021
The Cold War has already turned hot — on the Internet.
Apr 28, 2021
The U.S. accounts for 39 percent of global military spending. That’s more than the next eleven countries combined.
Apr 21, 2021
An increase in the military budget won’t make us safer or more prosperous.