ZP Heller - The Huffington Post
Here's something everyone in Congress needs to see as they consider President Obama's $83.4 billion supplemental war funding bill. National Priorities Project (NPP) just released The Cost of War in Afghanistan, a report examining the exorbitant human and economic costs of this rapidly expanding war, which estimates the war has ...
Matthew B. Stannard - San Francisco Chronicle
This picturesque community among the redwoods, once dubbed "the Berkeley of the north" for its reputation for unabashed liberalism, has repeatedly thumbed its nose at the federal government. Over the years, its civic leaders have declared this city a sanctuary for military resisters to the Persian Gulf War and barred ...
Jo Camerford - Common Dreams
NORTHHAMPTION, Mass. - April 7 - As taxes come due on April 15, taxpayers can take stock of how the federal government spent each 2008 income tax dollar: 37.3 cents went towards military-related spending, while environment, energy and science-related projects split 2.8 cents, according to a new analysis released by ...
Christine Ahn and Gwyn Kirk - Foreign Policy in Focus
In the silver lining to the devastating economic crisis, critiques of excessive military spending are now beginning to echo around Capitol Hill and throughout mainstream media. Federal budget priorities — and the billions of dollars tied up in the military budget — are coming under much wider scrutiny. For years, ...
Norman Solomon - San Francisco Chronicle
Early this winter, the PBS "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" interviewed the medical director at a community clinic in Northern California. He recalled the sight of military equipment moving along railroad tracks next to his office. "I've joked with my colleagues," Dr. David Katz said, "if we could just get one ...
Jessica Wehman - Dayton Daily News
WASHINGTON — $1 trillion may be the new $1 billion. The economic stimulus bill in the Senate is perilously close to $1 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office in January projected that this year's budget deficit would be a record $1.2 trillion – about twice the amount of the year before. ...
Peter Zerner and Joel Wendland - Political Affairs Magazine
The US government spends as much as $215 billion each year on military action globally to defend Big Oil's access to petroleum reserves around the globe in order to feed our addiction to oil, according to a new analysis published this week by the National Priorities Project (NPP), titled "The ...
- CNBC
The U.S. Congress needs to get out of 'pointing fingers' mode and pass legislation that is sensible and addresses the problem of impact of the financial crisis on the economy, Wilbur Ross Jr., chairman and CEO of WL Ross & Co. told CNBC's Asia Squawk Box. And it needs to ...
John Grebe - Sounds Of Dissent radio
Radio 33:53 min:sec. With $700bn at stake: what are the priorities? Jo Comerford of the National Priorities Project. See "What $700 Billion Could Buy" by Ruth Conniff 9/24/08 in The Progressive magazine. NationalPriorities.org shows how much US budget money goes where. Article there "The Magnitude and Meaning of the Proposed ...
Marilyn Bechtel - People's World
State budget gaps spreading, reports say??Like pollutants spreading through a food chain, the consequences of the country's economic crisis are multiplying in state budgets around the nation. Bush administration policies have made the crisis worse. ??Three recent studies highlight the problem. ??Earlier this month, the Washington-based Center on Budget and ...
