At the beginning of September, The Cost of War Project at Brown University released its report showing that the costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the other post-9/11 wars was a staggering $8 Trillion dollars. And these trillions of dollars are only the extra money the U.S. has paid specifically for those wars. For the most part they do not include the huge Pentagon base budget that pays for everything except for actually fighting these wars. In addition, the report states that over 900,000 people were killed in our post-9/11 wars.

Join Massachusetts Peace Action to hear Professor Heidi Peltier present the main findings of this report. She will give us a rundown of the various categories of expenses spent conducing these wars over these 20 years and the significance of these enormous numbers. And she will give us the costs specifically attributed to the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War. You will learn just what these wars really cost us – and these expenses don’t even include most of the interest on the money we borrowed to fight these wars that will have to be paid for years to come.

Heidi Peltier is a Research Professor and contributor to the Cost of War Project at Brown University. She is also director of “20 Years of War,” a Costs of War research series in partnership with the Pardee Center at Boston University. Dr. Peltier has written extensively on the employment impacts of public spending, including in the areas of green growth as well as demilitarization. Her research focuses on how the public sector can serve the public good, including by putting the economy on a path toward sustainable development — as well as demilitarizing federal spending in order to shift funds to other areas of public interest. Dr. Peltier has consulted with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the International Labour Organization, the U.S. Department of Energy, and various other organizations.

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Meeting ID: 837 5355 4330

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