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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKLp3d06aSU&feature=youtu.be] Last week, the House of Representatives took a small but important step toward reining in Pentagon spending. Thank you to [...]

This is part three in our series on the National Defense Authorization Act vote that concluded Friday morning. We’ve covered the Afghanistan vote, and some of the other issues addressed in the [...]

For decades, we have pointed out that bloated military spending takes money away from programs that have a much more positive impact on society–health care, education, the social safety [...]

The big picture With much fanfare, the Pentagon gave a preview of their Fiscal Year 2013 budget rollout late last month. The budget is informed by the earlier announcement of a new 21st century [...]

We have an urgent opportunity to move closer to a nuclear weapons free world. Every president gets one chance to revise and update US nuclear weapons strategy. That chance is coming in just a few [...]

At the very least, you are surely less resistant to making reasonable cuts in the Pentagon budget. Over the last few months, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has been spouting hyperbole about the [...]

NEW Peace Action Move the Money Toolkit  The US Labor Department announced that the economy created 80,000 jobs in October.  Economists say that twice that number of jobs need to be created every [...]

The deficit super committee’s deadline is fast approaching, and so far there is little information about where they are leaning in coming up with a plan to reduce the deficit by $1.5 trillion. [...]

In the next few weeks, the “super committee” will decide on a plan that could shape the federal budget for the next decade. We are mobilizing our supporters to contact the super [...]

The debate about raising the debt ceiling is mercifully over, though few people seem happy with the final outcome. Much of the debate about the deal has focused on domestic spending and [...]