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DescriptionThe United States currently spends around $300bn annually on its military -- that's more than 4 times as much as Russia and China (the next biggest spenders) combined. Moreover, in the 2000 presidential election, both George Bush and Al Gore proposed to increase this massive spending still further -- Gore by an additional $100bn over ten years, Bush by $50bn. This massive sum goes to an oversized military and a series of wasteful projects -- like the failed National Missile Defense system (better known as 'Star Wars'), which has so far cost more than $60bn but still can't hit its targets. In his 2000 campaign, Ralph Nader pledged to cut the military budget by around one-third if he was elected -- this working group intends to highlight the waste and pork that Nader identified, more than $100bn of unnecessasry military spending each year.The group will also look at US foreign policy, and we'll try to keep up-to-date links and stories on the ongoing sanctions against Iraq, the continuing militarization of the 'drug war' in Colombia, the debate over US deployments in Europe (especially in Bosnia and Kosovo), and the muddled and stumbling US policy in the Middle East -- particularly the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The group will also
look for local dimensions to this -- especially the links between Princeton
University and the national security state (former CIA employees and State
Department wonks on the faculty, etc.), and the efforts of New Jersey to
court big military corporations (like Lockheed Martin) to locate their
factories in the state.
Events/News/Updates
Current ProjectsRead Nicks article about the prospects of a Bush presidency,
Things you can doDepending on how much time and dedication you have, there are alot of things you can do to help out in this working group:
Resources-Most important resources-link to resource pages Last modified: Wednesday, 07-Feb-2001 00:04:56 EST |
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