Episode 197: The Unspoken Word in the Debt Crisis: Pentagon!

<p>In this week&#39;s episode, CODEPINK Congress Coordinator Marcy Winograd interviews economist, public<br>policy analyst and prolific author Jeffrey Sachs on how the bloated military budget drives the debt<br>crisis. Sachs estimates US debt at $24-trillion dollars, much of it the result of US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan<br>and Ukraine, as well the maintenance of 800 military bases abroad, development of new weapons systems <br>and a nuclear rearmament program in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which the US<br>ratified over 50 years ago. Sachs says no to NATO expansion and warns the US must seek a ceasefire in Ukraine <br>and not start another proxy war with China over Taiwan. Peace is the path forward, according to Sachs.</p>