Chris Hellman and Mattea Kramer - Nieman Watchdog
The Pentagon base budget of $530 billion is only
Chris Hellman and Mattea Kramer - Press TV
Recent months have seen a flurry of headlines about
Chris Hellman and Mattea Kramer - The American Conservative
Recent months have seen a flurry of headlines about cuts (often called “threats”) to the U.S. defense budget. Last week, lawmakers in the House of Representatives even passed a bill that was meant to spare national security spending from future cuts by reducing school-lunch funding and other social programs. Here, ...
Joseph Lambert - STOP Framing "us"
The GOP constantly cries over the debt limit and evokes the “spending
None - Spark Action
In the midst of the budget battle, National Priorities Project has issued A People's Guide to the Federal Budget
Phyllis Bennis - Anti War. com
It shouldn’t surprise anyone, but support for the longest U.S. war is dropping further and faster than ever. The latest national U.S. poll, released on May 9, shows 66 percent of Americans are against the war in Afghanistan – with 40 percent "strongly opposed."
None - Pape Forum
CostOfWar.com is a project maintained by the National Priorities Project. It analyses federal data on spending in the war in Iraq, and produces a running counter of . Over the past five years, US taxpayers have spent $506 billion on the Iraq War- that is over $ . Whether you ...
Eloise Lee - Business Insider
Since Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan began in October of 2001, the United States has sustained more than 15,858 overall casualties (war injuries) and 1,526 killed-in-action fatalities, according to Pentagon records.
Glenn Rogers - TCPalm
When Congress could not agree on spending cuts for the purpose of reining in the national debt, a six-member bipartisan supercommittee was set up with the same results: gridlock.
Emem Okon - Peace X Peace
“The whole fight for resource control has led to the eruption and escalation of all manner of conflict and violence in the Niger Delta. It’s all about power and control in light of the oil revenue.”