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Dismantle the war economy

To create real security, we must slash the Pentagon budget and invest in meeting everyone’s basic human needs.

By Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis and Stephen Miles
Dismantle the war economy
A US Navy fighter launching from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman | Isaac Esposito/U.S. Navy/Zuma Press/PA Images
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2020 began with a near-war with Iran – the deadly upshot of a bomb-first-ask-questions-later approach to world affairs.

Then came a pandemic – a public health disaster made all the more lethal by our leadership’s utter indifference to the lives of the people, especially the poor and people of color.

Then the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade. Three more names to the list of Black lives that didn’t matter to the state. An eruption of righteous rage. Even more police brutality in response.

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