El Gobierno ha presentado el presupuesto para el año 2016. Una rápida mirada al presupuesto de Defensa confirma que se vuelven a repetir las mismas trampas de años anteriores.

Articulo que revisa el alto grado de militarismo y gasto militar como una de las causas del alto endeudamiento de Grecia. Aparecido en la revista Mientras Tanto, julio de 2015.

Como vienen ocurriendo en los últimos años el Gobierno español ha aprobado un crédito extraordinario de 856 millones de euros para adquirir armamento que no se había presupuestado en el Ministerio de Defensa, pero en cambio existía ese compromiso. Articulo publicado en Público el 26/5/2015

The world’s military spending reaches 1.8 billion dollars

In Spain, for the first time since the crisis started in 2008, there has been an increase in the military budget

Coinciding with the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, today, SIPRI published their annual military spending report in 2014, in which confirms the world’s military spending and in real terms for three consecutive years although it is only 0.5%. In any case, the world’s military spending continues to have the huge sum of 1.8 billion dollars. While there is a reduction of budgets in Western defence, for austerity policies in Western Europe and budgets limitations of the United States, this seems to balance out the increase of military spending in Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Within the States that spend the most on defence, the United States, is the country with the highest budget for military issues. The next top three countries in the world ranking are China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, have increased their military spending in 2014. In the top ten military budgets the main European powers remain (France, United Kingdom, and Germany), India, Japan, and South Korea.

In Europe, while the Western countries budgets do not change or lightly decrease, the countries in central Europe have increased their defense budgets. While the Ukraine crisis has not influenced the budgets for defence- except in Ukraine - there are signs of increase in 2015 in countries of central and northern Europe.

In Spain, for the first time since the crisis in 2008 there has been an increase in military budget. The Spanish government has presented a defence budget for 2015 that has an increase of 1.1%. In addition to other budgets in recent years, the budget for the Ministry of defence is undervalued, being that the military spending is probably going to be 30% higher than estimated, because of the other budget items given to the Special Programs of Armament, to the cost of overseas military operations and the increase of military R&D spending. The real military spending for 2015 is probably going to reach 17,000 million euros, 4% of the budget, 353 euros per person.

In context of dismantling the Welfare State and continuous cuts on social policies, we cannot allow more of the public money going to the military sector. The Study Centre for Peace J.M. Delàs is a promoting member of the Global Campaign on Military Spending GDAMS, fight for the reduction of military spending to invest on welfare spending.

The Center Delàs participates one more year as the promoter in the Spanish State for the Global Campaign on military spending, GCOMS, who is the organizer. A sneak peek to April 13, the Global Day of Action, we have prepared an infographic about the reality of Spanish military spending, Report 25: Inertia, waste and fraud in military expenditure. Spanish defense budget analysis in 2015, by Pere Ortega and Jordi Calvo.

GASTO MILITAR: LAS PARTIDAS OCULTAS Y TRAMPAS EN LAS CUENTAS PARA DISIMULAR EL GASTO REAL

El gasto del Ministerio de Defensa aumenta, por primera vez desde 2008, un 1,1%, pero el gasto militar real sube al menos un 33%.

Hay quien dice que la crisis ya se ha acabado. No hace falta recordar quién lo dice y quien no. Y puede ser verdad. Depende de para quién. Incluso hay quien puede afirmar que nunca ha habido crisis, ya que los millonarios han aumentado en número y en patrimonio durante los años de la crisis, ya són más de 400.000 las personas que en España tienen al menos un millón de dólares en su caja A. No sabemnos si también tienen una caja B. Lo que en todo caso nadie puede negar es que la crisis ha venido para quedarse en muchos hogares españoles.

Artículo publicado en Publico.es

En el mundo hay de manera permanente más de 20 conflictos armados. Cuando uno camina hacia la resolución y baja la intensidad de la violencia armada, aparece otro para mantener el nivel de actividad militar. Las guerras suceden por múltiples factores, y no es objeto de este artículo analizarlos, pero, hay varias cuestiones que el sentido común hace que nos planteemos recurrentemente.