Richard Burnett - Orlando Sentinel
Lockheed Martin Corp.'s high-tech training division in Orlando has landed a $270 million Air Force contract to provide the pilot- and aircrew-training systems for the C-130 transport, the company said Tuesday.
Eric Stoner - Eric Stoner
In December, as the United States entered the 10th year of what President Obama called the "good war" in Afghanistan, I traveled to Kabul to take stock of the human toll of the increasingly bloody occupation.
John Isaacs - Council for a Livable World/The Chain Reaction
Missile Defense – The Administration is requesting $10.7 billion for missile defense in FY 2012, up roughly $450 million from the current $10.2 billion. This total does not include $995.2 million for the SBIRS-High satellite.
Marty Nathan - PDA
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.--On Saturday, February 12, the forty-some members present at the Northampton City Democratic Committee Meeting voted nearly unanimously to adopt the Resolution to Bring the Troops and War Taxes Home, furthering the grassroots effort to stop the war and increase domestic spending on human needs.
Chris Hellman - US Labor Against the War (USLAW)
BACKGROUND
Julie - WAND Educational Fund
Happy Valentine's Day! We are awaiting the release of the President's Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 Budget Request, expected later today. You probably heard news about this over the weekend and if so, you know that the Administration plans to have some targeted investments mixed with a 5-year "freeze" in most ...
Staff Reporter - International Business Times
There have been forty-three Afghanistan coalition military fatalities from the start of 2011 to February 12, according to tracker iCasualites.org. The total comes after more than 711 fatalities last year, a record total in a war now in its 10th year, says the organization, which compiles official data. So far ...
- NH Peace Action
With Keynote Speaker Jo Comerford,
Derrick Crowe - Huffington Post
Although neither I nor Brave New Foundation were involved in this project, I have to say how proud I am of these young people. While many of their peers were playing video games like "Call of Duty: Black Ops" and rehearsing the act of war, these kids took on the ...
