Frida Berrigan, a TomDispatch regular, writes the Little Insurrections blog for WagingNonviolence.org, is the author of It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised By Radicals and Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood, and lives in New London, Connecticut.
For the daughter of two radical pacifists, antiwar advocacy runs in the family.
Expanding the US global military presence is costly to taxpayers but highly profitable for private military contractors.