1/ Sometimes it feels like people have just thrown up their hands and given up when it comes to American militarism. The Pentagon spends $2 billion a day or $1 million a minute. That’s not for garden parties.

2/ Here are examples of $ to be spent in the current in the NDAA: billions for 93 F-35 fighters built by Lockheed Martin, *14 more than the Pentagon requested*, and $23.4 billion for the Navy to build nine warships, an increase of $3.5 billion from the service's budget request.

3/ The bill would clear the way for the procurement of a new Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine, two Virginia-class attack subs, two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, a new Constellation-class frigate, an expeditionary fast transport ship and two towing and salvage ships.

4/ 53 cents of every dollar we spend goes to defense-related activity; we’re a permanent war economy. Yet unlike when I was young, the war machine in DC has succeeded now in creating mass acceptance that this is just the way it is. Politicians get away with not even mentioning it

5/ Yet transitioning from a war economy to a peace economy should be as high on our list of goals as transition from a dirty economy to a green economy. And they’re inextricably tied. DOD is one of the worst polluters; there’s no such thing as a “green war.”