Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, military bases around the world, the nuclear weapons program - all this adds up to a budget that leaves nothing for foreign aid or for tackling climate change. Miriam Pemberton is a research fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and author of a recent report on U.S. military spending.
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