The Pentagon budget swallows up billons of dollars that could be spent to improve systems of education, employment, housing and healthcare. We deserve better!

• Tradeoffs how defunding the Pentagon could tangibly improve our lives, the lives of children, and veterans!
• Pentagon’s Budget Is Nearly $1 Trillion. It’s Now Failed 7 Audits in a Row - Truthout 
• Militarism Fact Sheet- The Poor People's Campaign
• Poor People's Moral Budget- The Poor People's Campaign
• Peace and Freedom Magazine, WILF U.S.
• THE HYPOCRISY OF THE FEDERAL SPENDING DEBATE, Sister Karen M. Donahue, Othwerwords
• "Ten Better Uses for Ten Percent of the Pentagon Budget", Lindsay Koshgarian & Ashik Siddique, Institute for Policy Studies
• "House Approves $740 Billion Pentagon Budget While Millions Can’t Afford Rent", Eoin Higgens, Truthout
•  “Take This Job and Shove It”, Inkstick Media

The U.S. military is the largest consumer of oil, and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet. Not to mention their displacement of Indigenous peoples to build U.S. military bases and to extract fossil fuels around the world. It is obvious that War is Not Green! 

• No Warming, No War: How Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis — and Vice Versa
• To Save The Planet, Cut The Pentagon- Ashik Siddique, Buzzfeed
• We Can’t Confront Climate Change While Lavishly Funding the Pentagon, JP Sottile, Truthout 
• Oil fuels war and terrorists like Isis. The climate movement can bring peace, Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian
• 10 Ways Climate Change and Militarism are Intertwined, Medea Benjamin, Foreign Policy in Focus
• "The Pentagon is Killing Us", Marcy Winograd, LA Progressive
• "The U.S. Military Is Driving Environmental Collapse Across the Planet", Sam Carliner, Left Voice
• "Earth Warming Faster Than Previously Thought; US Military Largest Emitter of Greenhouse Gas", Garland Nixon & Wilmer Leon, Sputnik News
• "The Ecological Impact of Militarism", John Scales Avery, Counter Punch
• "The Soft Climate Denialism of Our Routine, Unexamined, Massive Military Budgets", Sarah Lazare, The Column
• "The Toxic Relationship between Oil and the Military", Katya Forsyth & Frederick Kerr, Global Center for Climate Justice
• "U.S. Militarism's Toxic, Planet-Killing Impact on Climate Policy", Common Dreams, Medea Benjamin & Nicolas Davies

We continue to pump more money into the Pentagon, investing billions in destructive U.S. forever wars. This causes damage to people around the world because not only is war expensive, it is immoral. 

• End the Forever Wars:  
  • War is Immoral- World Beyond War Fact Sheet
  • Reasons to Bury War - World Beyond War Infographic
  • The War in Afghanistan Is Over, It's Time to Face the Truth- Mary Hladky, Common Dreams
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Explains His Opposition to Militarism-Youtube
  • Stephen Canty: Once a Marine- Talk Nation Radio
  • The Human Costs of War- Costs of War Project at Brown University 

• No new war with China:
  • "The China Threat is Being Inflated to Justify More Spending", Dan Grazier, Defense News
  • The Pentagon's China Syndrome, POGO
  • "The U.S. is Set on a Path to War with China. What Is to be Done?", KJ Noh, Qiao Collective
  • "How to Prevent a New Cold War with China", Madison Tang, Jodie Evans & RJ Thomsen, Counter Punch
  • "Enough is Enough: Stop Tempting Nuclear Catastrophe", RJ Thomsen, CODEPINK
  • "Why We Must Prevent the U.S. From Launching a Hybrid War Against China", Madison Tang & Jodie Evans, LA Progressive
  • "U.S. Geopolitics: Afghanistan and the Containment of China", Joseph E. Fallon, Small Wars Journal
  •  "Countering the "China Threat" - at What Price?", Koohan Paik-Mander, Foreign Policy in Focus
  • "'Anti-China' Military Pact 'Threatens Peace and Stability' in Pacific, Groups Warn'", Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams
  • "End the Pentagon's New Anti-China Slush Fund & Reinvest in Our Communities Instead", RJ Thomsen, CODEPINK
    
    
• Latin America:
  • "Ending Regime Change — in Bolivia and the World", Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK
    
    
• The Middle East:
  • “The Long-Term Costs of United States Care for Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars”, Linda Bilmes, The Cost of War Project
  • The Costs of War Project just latest findings of the true human and budgetary costs of the post-9/11 wars.
  • The Costs of War Project released updated findings on the costs of the Afghanistan War
  • “America's Price Tag for Two Decades of War: $5.8 Trillion”, Rachel Layne, CBS News           
  • “The Costs of Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq Could Be Trillions More Than People Think”, Vivienne Walt, Fortune
  • "Learn from the Afghan War - or Repeat It", Maj. Danny Sjursen, Sheerpost
  • “Afghanistan Was a Ponzi Scheme Sold to the American Public”, Steven Simon, Quincy Institute
  • The Top 5 Military Contractors Ate $2 Trillion During the Afghanistan War, Stephen Semler, Security Policy Reform Institute

Biden is funneling hundreds of billions into "nuclear modernization", and lawmakers continue to tack on billions more to his $753 billion Pentagon budget. If we continue at this rate, our future is grim...

• "Meet the Senate nuke caucus, busting the budget and making the world less safe", Marcy Winograd & Medea Benjamin, Responsible Statecraft
• "Democrats Who Joined Republicans to Increase Military Budget Have Strong Ties", Sara Sirota, The Intercept
• "The Economic Case for Shrinking the Pentagon", Charles Kenny,Responsible Statecraft
• "'A $753,000,000,000 Defense Budget Is a Failure': Biden Pentagon Request Rebuked", Jake Johnson,Common Dreams
• "Congressman Brown: Reducing the Pentagon Budget is not ‘irresponsible'", CODEPINK
• "History Is Clear. America's Military Is Way Too Big", Jeremi Suri, The New York Times
• "From Space Force to F-35s, Congress Given Specific Path to Cut Pentagon Budget by $80 Billion", Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams
• "Here's how to force Biden to cut the Pentagon's budget", Marcy Winograd & Medea Benjamin, Alternet.org
• "America’s Military is Too Big for America’s Good", Jeremi Suri, New York Times
• "STATE OF INSECURITY: The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11", Lindsay Koshgarian, Ashik Siddique & Lorah Steichen, Institute for Policy Studies