April 5, 2011 | After promising his budget proposal would stick closely to the bipartisan deficit reduction commission's recommendations, his actual blueprint looks like a work of ideological posture of his own creation.
February 21, 2011 | We should support the Egyptian miracle by cutting military aid and shifting it to support what will actually help Egyptians improve their standard of living.
February 14, 2011 | President Obama's proposed budget offers no real cuts to the Pentagon, and further spreads the divide between Defense and State Departments spending.
February 10, 2011 | Let's define budget cuts as spending less next year than this year. Nothing else should qualify.
December 7, 2010 | In the last year of Chalmers Johnson's life, the deficit hawks' bluff got called.
November 29, 2010 | The U.S. military is beginning to see climate change as a security threat, but the government isn't making it a high enough priority.
November 11, 2010 | The military spending cuts proposed by the Deficit Reduction Commission is both good and bad for a truly sustainable defense budget.
October 25, 2010 | The gap between federal spending on military as opposed to climate security has narrowed but compared to China our progress is meager.
October 4, 2010 | We should cut the military budget and use that money to fund our transition to a greener economy.
October 1, 2010 | How can we come out of this recession with a manufacturing sector and a workforce that are globally competitive, that produce things that people need in the new green economy?