One needn’t be a climate purist to whistleblow on military
After reading James Smith’s Jan. 28 letter, I checked the Register-Guard’s policy. I was relieved to see that sainthood is not a requirement, because I have a lot to say about the military’s gargantuan negative impact on climate and I don’t ride a bike. … Read...
China Might Be Bugging US Subways — But There’s a Bigger Problem
Years of neglecting public infrastructure has undercut the U.S. manufacturing base.
Something We Can Agree On: Close Some Overseas Bases
A group of national security experts from left, right, and center says cutting some of America’s 800 far-flung outposts will save money and make us safer.
The U.S. Defense Department Is Losing the Battle Against Climate Change
A rock seawall protecting the Air Force’s Cape Lisburne Long Range Radar Station on the North East Alaska coast is under increasing duress from extreme weather patterns affecting Arctic sea ice—nearly $50 million has been spent replacing vulnerable parts of the...Fighting the last war with borrowed money
On Friday, while the White House press corps was playing Dungeons and Dragons: the Judge Kavanaugh edition, President Trump was signing an $854 billion dollar spending bill with no reporters present. The almost $1trillion package included an obscene $674 billion...A Plan to Save $25 Billion at the Pentagon
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) released a plan last week to cut $25 billion in spending at the Pentagon, largely through reductions in what the lawmaker says are duplications and inefficiencies within the sprawling department. The plan...
Plan to Cut Pentagon Waste Eliminates an Office Designed to Do Just That
Rather than returning the savings to the taxpayers, the plan means to plow those savings back into the Pentagon budget.
Google Employees are Rejecting Militarism. That’s a Great Sign.
Techies who’ve come of age in a country perpetually at war are saying they don’t want their talents used to kill people.
Women Against War Presents Miriam Pemberton
Miriam Pemberton is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. She directs its Peace Economy Transitions Project which focuses on helping to build the foundations of a postwar economy at the federal, state and local levels. She co-chairs the Budget...
The Pentagon Can’t Keep Track of the Billions it Already Gets
For years, it has been the only federal agency that can’t pass an audit.
The Little Agency That Could Have Tamed the Military-Industrial Complex
The Pentagon’s Office of Economic Adjustment mostly missed its chance to wean communities off America’s dependence on defense economics.
A tale of two policies: climate change, Trump, and the U.S. military
The U.S. government appears to be of two minds, with utterly opposing worldviews, on climate change policy. On one hand, the Trump Administration has pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, has proposed eliminating three vital new climate satellites, reneged on an...
Congress Just Agreed to Completely Out of Control Pentagon Spending
Military spending will reach $700 billion under the deal to reopen the government, despite reports of hundreds of billions in Pentagon waste.
Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe
Backing down from nuclear war would make us a lot safer than piling more money into the Pentagon.