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Guest Blogger
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Military & Security
We can’t say we support justice and human rights in this country while supporting violence and expulsion abroad.
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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
President Biden proposed a Pentagon budget increase larger than the entire discretionary budget of the CDC.
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Robert Alvarez
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Military & Security
The standard, often unreliable reporting on police killings dehumanizes victims — a fact my own family knows too well.
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Lorah Steichen
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Climate Change,
Military & Security
Last week the White House convened a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate with forty leaders from the world's largest economies presenting their plans to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Now that the dust has settled, what should we make of the new commitments announced at the summit?
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Ashik Siddique
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Military & Security
The world spent almost $2 trillion on militaries in 2020, according to the latest data on global military expenditures compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). That's a military spending increase of 2.6 per cent in real terms since 2019, even as global gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 4.4...
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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
With his Pentagon budget proposal last week, President Biden made clear his intention to continue in the footsteps of President Trump. The proposal called for an increase in Pentagon and war spending from $740 billion fiscal year 2021 to $753 billion in fiscal year 2022.
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Guest Blogger
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Military & Security,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
People escaping violence have a right to seek safety. If they can’t, that’s the real crisis.
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Ashik Siddique
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
Today, President Joe Biden unveiled his administration's FY 2022 “skinny budget” request. While not a full breakdown, the “skinny budget” offers a critical glimpse at topline discretionary budget spending and speaks volumes about the administration's priorities. At $753 billion, Biden's requested Pentagon budget increase continues the dangerous and short-sighted path...
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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
Progressives have called for an immediate ten percent Pentagon spending reduction, to be followed by greater reductions. That would take spending closer to where it was under President Obama. We'll soon find out whether President Biden will stick with the Trump increases, build on them, or begin to tear them down.
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Peter Certo
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Military & Security
A personal recollection on the day that launched the Iraq War — and its lessons for us 18 years later.