Dear John,
You’re invited to a virtual book discussion with IPS Associate Fellow Miriam Pemberton, author of the just released “Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies” and leaders of IPS, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, CODEPINK, Pentagon Budget Campaign, Project on Government Oversight, and Public Citizen.
Join us TODAY at 12:30pm ET / 9:30am PT!
The U.S. military economy incorporates hundreds of American communities. This is the first book to connect our national security apparatus to the local level via deeply reported portraits of six locations, plus our militarized border and the hyper weapons in the pipeline. They include production sites, bases and nuclear weapons labs, and feature military Meccas and out-of-the way places.
“Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies” includes an overview of how the military is structured, how it perpetuates itself, how its budget is made, and what it costs. Pemberton traces the lines of connection between her tour stops and our country’s foreign policy, industrial policy, and budget priorities.
She examines the meaning of national security in the current moment, as climate change becomes what the military itself calls “an urgent and growing threat.” And she demonstrates how redirecting our militarized foreign and industrial policy toward climate security can help these communities become part of the solution.
Please RSVP and join us today for this important discussion!
Praise for Six Stops on the National Security Tour
"Miriam Pemberton has written the definitive contemporary account of the cultural and economic behemoth that is "National Security." She uses her deep expertise and vivid writing to examine this terrain and suggest another way is not just possible but existentially and immediately necessary."
—Catherine Lutz, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and International Studies, Brown University, and Co-Director, Costs of War project
"This lively, most unusual tour of the U.S. covers something guidebooks don't. Pemberton shows how our vast military budget has affected communities across the nation ... But there are seeds of hope: examples of what we can accomplish using talent and energy to produce what the world desperately needs instead of a river of useless weaponry."
— Adam Hochschild, author King Leopold's Ghost, Bury the Chains, To End All Wars and other books
"With great force and compelling detail, Pemberton describes how our political elite--Democrats and Republicans alike--are fiddling while the planet burns ... Pemberton arms us with the tools to stop this madness before it is too late. This is an outstanding, and hugely important, book."
— Robert Pollin, Distinguished Professor Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"This "Tour" is a gift. Drawing on unparalleled expertise developed over decades, Pemberton surveys the Military Industrial Complex and its impact on the economy, politics and everyday life of the United States... She also shows where we must go in what she rightly calls the "fight for our lives" to move hundreds of billions of dollars from this Complex to build a green economy and save our warming planet."
—David Vine, Professor of Anthropology, American University
"A troubling but fascinating travelogue. Highly recommended."
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Michael Klare, Former Director, Five Colleges Program in Peace and World Security Studies
In peace,
Lindsay, Ashik, & Lorah
