Reach Out to Cuba to Heal Guantnamo’s Wounds
The United States should re-engage Latin America by turning the soon-defunct Guantánamo Bay prison into a medical center.
Budget Makes No ‘Sweeping Shift’ in Security Spending Yet
The Obama administration’s preliminary budget figures show a modest course correction to our highly militarized foreign policy.
Book Event: Pentagon Reform: If Not Now, When?
CANCELLED: IPS Mandate for Change Election Series: The Arms Race and the Military Budget
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As Its Economic Power Wanes, Does the U.S. Lean Harder on the Military?
The financial crisis highlights the United States’ increasing dependence on militarism.
A Fat Budget for Weapons, Thin for Diplomacy
It is quintessential “Washington business as usual” that keeps the goal of rebalancing security resources always out of reach.
A Unified Security Budget for the United States, FY 2009
This new report offers a comprehensive proposal for re-balancing military, international engagement, and homeland security spending.
Raiding the War Chest
It’s called “defense” spending, but how much of it is actually about defense? Here’s how we could save billions, and still have billions left to make the U.S. and the world more secure.
A Climate Change Industrial Policy
It’s time to change our budget priorities and create a new climate industrial complex.
The Iraq Supplemental: A Three Ring Circus
A complicated picture has emerged for the latest Iraq spending bill.
Shape Up and Ship Out
How the Pentagon can cut the military budget and still keep us safe.
The China Syndrome
The bulk of the enormous U.S. military budget is earmarked not for fighting terrorism but for the next cold war.
How Much is Enough?
Columnist Frida Berrigan wonders, what ever happened to peace, love, and cutting the U.S. military budget?
Reclaiming the City on the Hill
If the budget represents, in Joseph Schumpeter’s phrase, “the skeleton of the state stripped of all misleading ideologies” then the Bush administration’s current budget reflects the interests of those who would trample on the public-spirited vision of Puritan John Winthrop’s image of the “city on a hill.”
Fudging The Numbers
Before the Bush administration kicks things off with its 2007 budget request in early February, it seems bent on proving that, in the fantasy department, it can go head-to-head with Hollywood.