Fashioning resistance to militarism
Foreign Policy in Focus
by Christine Ahn and Gwyn Kirk
03/10/09
In the silver lining to the devastating economic crisis, critiques of excessive military spending are now beginning to echo around Capitol Hill and throughout mainstream media. Federal budget priorities — and the billions of dollars tied up in the military budget — are coming under much wider scrutiny. For years, the National Priorities Project, WAND (Women’s Action for New Directions), and War Resisters League have calculated the tradeoffs for military spending with readable pie charts, diagrams, and interactive websites to educate and empower ordinary people to take part in this policy debate. Yet what all the facts and figures cannot quite crack is the deeply entrenched military mindset that so dominates American society and culture...
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5929
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=militarism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+crisis
by Christine Ahn and Gwyn Kirk
03/10/09
In the silver lining to the devastating economic crisis, critiques of excessive military spending are now beginning to echo around Capitol Hill and throughout mainstream media. Federal budget priorities — and the billions of dollars tied up in the military budget — are coming under much wider scrutiny. For years, the National Priorities Project, WAND (Women’s Action for New Directions), and War Resisters League have calculated the tradeoffs for military spending with readable pie charts, diagrams, and interactive websites to educate and empower ordinary people to take part in this policy debate. Yet what all the facts and figures cannot quite crack is the deeply entrenched military mindset that so dominates American society and culture...
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5929
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=militarism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+crisis
rudkla - 11. Mär, 08:16
