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The Narrow Borders of Militarism  Details -An end to war? It’s certainly necessary, but is it politically possible? The fate of House Resolution 476, introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee, will give us a clue how close “we,” by which I mean the leading military power on the planet, are to transcending our suicidal certainties. The wording of this bill concludes thus: Congress supports moves to reduce the priority given to war in our foreign policy and our current war-based national economy by using significant cuts, up to $350,000,000,000 as detailed above, from c...

New cash for defense infrastructure under fire AUDIT OUTRAGE: New bipartisan legislation  [1]unveiled in the House on Thursday would slash the defense budget each year the Pentagon doesn’t pass an audit, owing to outrage in both parties that the Defense Department has failed to achieve a clean scrub of its books. The bill, sponsored by Lee and Republican Michael Burgess, would cut the budget of any Pentagon agency that doesn’t achieve a clean audit by half a percent for the first year after enactment and 1 percent each subsequent year. “The lack of accountability and transparency at ...

"Spending $753 billion on weapons and war while our communities starve... is a national shame."

NIAC Action joined Jewish Voice for Peace, Win Without War, MoveOn and over 100 other organizations to support U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s resolution to block a planned 735 million-dollar sale of weapons to Israel. At an extraordinary time of heightened violence and disproportiona

Myanmar: UN expert welcomes “new blow” against junta’s finances, urges all nations step up with sanctions GENEVA (20 May 2021) – A UN human rights expert today welcomed the announcement of a new set of government sanctions against Myanmar’s junta by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, highlighting in particular the US designation of the junta itself, or the State Administrative Council (SAC) for sanctions. “It is imperative that the international community ramp up the size and scope of sanctions as the junta ramps up its repression of the people of Myanmar...