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Beyond the Sky's Limit: U.S. Military Spending
October 18, 2000
Listen/download helpBoth major political parties are pushing for greater military spending; this at a time when the U.S. military budget is at Cold War levels and has been increasing over the past few years. On this program, we take a look at some of the weapons U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for, and what military spending priorities lie ahead.
Featuring:
Jacqueline Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation; Peter Ferenbach, California Peace Action; Eric Floden, Conventional Arms Transfer Project/Council for a Livable World Education Fund; Tamar Gabelnick, Federation of American Scientists/ Arms Sales Monitoring Project; William Hartung, World Policy Institute; Marylia Kelly, Tri-Valley Citizens Against a Radioactive Environment; Mary Loehr, National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee; Miriam Pemberton, Institute for Policy Studies.
For more information:
Western States Legal Foundation
1504 Franklin Street, Ste. 202
Oakland, California 94612
510-839-5877;
fax: 510-839-5387; wslf@earthlink.net
California Peace Action
2800 Adeline Street
Berkeley, California 94703
510-849-2272;
fax: 510-849-2041
www.capa.org
Conventional Arms Transfer Project
Council for a Livable World Education Fund
110 Maryland Avenue NE #201
Washington, DC 20002
202-546-0795
www.clw.org/cat/index.html
Federation of American Scientists
Arms Sales Monitoring Project
307 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
202-675-1018;
fax: 202-675-1010
www.fas.org
World Policy Institute
66 5th Avenue
New York, New York
212-229-5430;
fax: 212-229-5579
www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/tangled.htm
Tri-Valley Citizens Against a Radioactive Environment
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, California 94550
925-443-7148;
fax: 925-443-0177
www.igc.org/tvc
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
P.O. Box 6512
Ithaca, New York 14851
800-269-7464; nwtrcc@lightlink.com
Institute for Policy Studies
733 15th St NW, Suite 1020
Washington DC 20005-2112
202-234-9382;
fax: 202-387-7915
www.ips-dc.org