Summary: in 2011 there was a shift in dialogue from regarding Pentagon budget requests as untouchable to discussion of cutting the military budget; this is a big step forward. However, no significant cuts in core programs have actually been made and no monies moved from military to social programs. These difficult tasks remain. Only a coalition building strategy leading to the progressive majority can accomplish them.
US foreign policy and empire
The Military Budget and the Peace and Justice Movement
Submitted by dmcfarland on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 8:33pm.The Grim Implications of Obama’s New Defense Plan
Submitted by Joseph Gerson on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 8:09pm.Pentagon’s New Strategic Guidance
CounterPunch, January 13-15, 2012
In early January the Obama Administration released the Pentagon’s new Guidance, Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense. It is clearly designed less to cut U.S. military spending than to reorder Pentagon priorities to ensure full spectrum dominance (dominating any nation, anywhere, at any time, at any level of force) for the first decades of the 21st century. As President Obama himself said, after the near-doubling of military spending during the Bush era, the Guidance will slow the growth of military spending, “but…it will still grow:, in fact by 4% in the coming year.”
Challenges of Globalization: Global Engagement
Submitted by ujpadmin1 on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 8:19pm.
When: Monday, February 13, 2012, 2:00 pm
to 9:00 pm
Where: First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church • 3 Church St • Harvard Sq T • Cambridge
2012 Feb 13 - 2:00pm
2012 Feb 13 - 9:00pm
Program starts @ 2pm Keynote @ 7pm
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