Can You Keep War Bonds Out of Your Socially Responsible Investments?

Can You Keep War Bonds Out of Your So­cial­ly-Re­spon­si­ble In­vest­ments?

I researched the holdings of several of the most popular “socially responsible” mutual funds, including funds that explicitly screen out investments in military contractors and weapons manufacturers. I found that most of them loan money to the Pentagon by including treasury bonds in their holdings. How can war tax resisters invest without inadvertently extending a line of credit to the warfare state?

Read my article at the NWTRCC blog for more details.

In other news…

• Listen along as Jamie Maclaren, one of the organizers of the Strathcona tax resistance campaign, discusses what’s going on, on The Mike Smyth Show.
• Another tax strike in South Kivu, as the Federation of Businesses of Congo organized a hartal in Baraka that includes tax resistance along with a general strike.
• A Hazmat team was sent to a local IRS office to check out “a suspicious letter.”
• The human rebellion against traffic ticket robots continues, with robots taking casualties in France & Germany and more in France in recent weeks.