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.
Bethania Palma Markus - San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Three years after being honorably discharged from the Marine Corps, combat veteran Jaazar Shalabi, 29, of Monrovia is about to lose his apartment.
Matthew D. La Plante - Salt Lake City Tribune
Gilbert Gooch is lost in the Philippines. The heat, the humidity, the enormous insects — nearly 70 years have passed since he returned from World War II, but it's all right there.
National Priorities Project - Common Dreams
NORTHHAMPTION, Mass. - May 18 - National Priorities Project (NPP) has released a comprehensive federal budget tool which spans fiscal years 2008 to 2010, offering a comparison of the Bush and Obama budgets, while highlighting economic stimulus spending in 2009. This tool offers both national and state-level numbers, with a ...
Chris Hellman - Common Dreams
NORTHHAMPTION, Mass. - May 8 - On May 7, 2009, the Obama Administration released its FY2010 budget, which begins to shift our nation's energy-related values as reflected in spending priorities for the coming year. The following is a brief synopsis of representative Department of Energy numbers. In response, National Priorities ...
- Straight Outta Suburbia
LA Metro recently announced that they'll be cutting back their bus service. They're running a $251 million budget deficit due to the weak economy. This is despite the fact that in 2008 we LA County voters overwhelmingly chose to increase our taxes to fund a pretty progressive package of transportation ...
Samantha Dana - National Priorities Project
This week there was a lot of media coverage of the tentative agreement reached between the Obama Administration and congressional Republicans to extend the Bush-era tax cuts. The agreement came after the GOP leadership announced its intention to block any legislation during the current "lame duck" session until the tax ...
Associated Press - The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have delayed a showdown vote on legislation carving out a path to legal status for foreign-born youngsters brought to this country illegally. Facing GOP objections, Democrats are putting aside the so-called Dream Act. They're short of the 60 votes needed to advance the measure. Democratic officials ...
