Aaron Glantz - The Bay Citizen
California's hulking, $26.4 billion budget deficit would almost completely disappear if the federal government gave the state money that's currently being spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new report released to today by the National Priorities Project, a Massachusetts-based think tank.
admin - Common Dreams
Monday (January 17) is the 50th anniversary of President Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address, in which he warned of the rise of a "military-industrial complex."
Dave - Todays Legal News
Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, will cancel the orders of F-35 jet as part of a wider plan to lessen the spending of Pentagon by $100 billion.
Ben Storrow - Daily Hampshire Gazette
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The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and National Priorities Project (NPP) are preparing to announce the six lucky winners of If I Had a Trillion Dollars (IHTD), a national video contest which asks young people to convey how they would spend the more than $1 trillion dollars spent on the ...
Bob Cox - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to cut orders for the F-35 joint strike fighter over the next three to five years as part of broader plan to reduce Pentagon spending by $100 billion, analysts say.
Project Censored - Express Milwaukee
President Obama's decision to increase military spending will result in the greatest administrative military spending since World War II. This decision is being made despite extreme waste, fraud, abuse and corporate welfare in the military budget. At the same time, spending on "non-security" domestic programs—such as education, nutrition, energy and ...
Jeff Smith - Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy
The group Rethink Afghanistan has a new short video in response to the Obama administration's "Afghan Review" statement last month.
