2 results for author: Code Pink


How Would You Send $1.5 Trillion Dollars?

How would you spend $1.5 trillion dollars? Statement from Code Pink While the working class struggles to make ends meet, this budget propels the U.S. into more endless wars to enrich weapons and tech billionaires. We demand a budget that invests in the people and planet, not death & destruction. The Trump administration proposed the largest increase to war spending in modern history. If Congress falls in line, the Pentagon budget will reach $1.5 trillion in 2027. To put that into perspective, if every dollar of this budget were represented by a minute, it would amount to more than one million days, or about 2,740 years. Another way ...

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In the past week, we have seen the US propaganda machine completely expose itself. In protest of the incoming TikTok ban, Americans have been flooding the Chinese social media app RedNote. Through interacting with Chinese citizens, new RedNote users have learned that the US government has been completely lying about China! Labeled “TikTok refugees” by Chinese netizens, local users have embraced the newcomers with open arms and a lot of humor. Not only that, but this cross-cultural moment has opened a vacuum for people-to-people interactions, allowing Chinese citizens to candidly share their thoughts and their lives with Americans who know little ...