"In a statement responding to the analysis, the International Peace Bureau (IPB) also pointed to the public health crisis as evidence of the need for a worldwide shift in priorities... Sharing a SIPRI infographic, IPB co-president Philip Jennings tweeted: “The military industry complex is raking it in and we don’t feel safer. Time to halt this madness.”"
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Quoted in US Drove Last Year’s Over $1.9 Trillion in Global Military Spending, by Jessica Corbett, Consortium News, (April 27, 2020)
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