Jon Letman - The Hawaii Independent
LIHUE—Ours is a nation obsessed with security. Two months after the bitter sting of the 9/11 attacks, the federal government formed the Transportation Security Administration and, one year later, the Department of Homeland Security. In the decade that has followed we have been pounded with talk of security in every ...
- Hastings on nonviolence
What blocks the US from instituting a nonviolent national policy toward others on this planet? Our devotion to violence and violent threat. Our military is fearsome and guarantees that we are hated by much of the world, feared by all, and that our ecology and economy are both in downward ...
- Common Dreams
WASHINGTON - August 24 - With all eyes on our nation's budget, National Priorities Project (NPP) has overhauled its Trade Offs Tool designed to clarify the magnitude and localized impact of federal spending programs. The tool estimates FY2011 spending for select federal programs for individual states, counties, congressional districts, and ...
Lawrence Wittner - Huffington Post
The August 9 announcement by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates of cost-containment measures at the Defense Department should not obscure two underlying facts. First, as he conceded, these proposed economies will not result in cutting the overall Pentagon budget, which is slated for expansion. And, second, as a Washington Post ...
Christopher Hinton - Market Watch
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The last U.S. combat brigade left Iraq early Thursday morning, ahead of an Aug. 31 deadline, according to media reports. At its peak, 170,000 U.S. soldiers were stationed in the Middle East country, and there remains just over 50,000 American soldiers today acting as "advisors" to ...
Cliff Kincaid - Accuracy in Media
In line with Obama chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel's admonition that no crisis should go to waste, the Obama Administration is preparing to use the matter of massive debt and deficits to push for drastic cuts in our national U.S. military budget. The proposed cuts, which total $960 billion, could leave the ...
Sandy LeonVest - Toward Freedom
The most recent tally of the cost of war by the non-profit National Priorities Project (NPP) puts total military-related expenditures (through September, 2010) at a mind-numbing $1.09 trillion.
Bryan Rahija - Project on Government Oversight
Looking for a good introduction to the federal budget process? Look no further than the National Priorities Project's Federal Budget 101 webinar. The webinar begins tomorrow at 11:00 AM and is free. You'll need to register here.
Robert Reich - Robert Reich
America's biggest — and only major — jobs program is the U.S. military.
Sentinel editorial board - Holland Sentinel
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