We Need a Guns and Butter Debate Over the Costs of the Iran War

For Counterpunch 

Sixty years ago opposition to America’s war in Vietnam, a major attack concerned the costs of diverting U.S. resources away from social spending to the military – what was called Guns and Butter.

I was the junior member of the Columbia University triumvirate headed by Seymour Melman and Terence McCarthy. We lectured widely, wrote in… Continue reading