Melvin A. Goodman - Progressive Democrats of America
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave a provocative and even dangerous speech at the National Defense University (NDU) last week that revealed the cold-war thinking of a key holdover from the Bush administration. With language reminiscent of the worst days of the cold war in the 1950s, Gates argued that ...
Heidi Garrett-Peltier - Dollars & Sense
The United States is currently preparing to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by summer 2010. Military contractors, deeply integrated into the U.S. economy, will continue to prosper and profit from increased military spending resulting from this surge of troops. At a time when unemployment in the domestic economy remains ...
Jessica Borders - USA Today
The National Priorities Project is working to help consumers grasp how the federal budget impacts their daily lives. On Feb. 8, the National Priorities Project released a publication on "The President's Budget: Fiscal Year 2011." This report, found at www.nationalpriorities.org, "reviews presidential budget requests spanning fiscal years 2008 to 2012, ...
Susan Kaplan - WFCR 88.5 Public Radio
Federal budgets aren't known for being brief. And the Obama Administration's recently released fiscal 2011 budget is 2,300 pages long. The National Priorities Project, based in Northampton Massachusetts, tries to tell the story behind the numbers. The group's executive director, Jo Comerford, told WFCR's Susan Kaplan that President Obama's attempt ...
by Norman Solomon - Media Monitors Network
Oratory can be nice, but budget numbers tell us where an administration is headed. In 2010, this one is marching up a steep military escalator, under the banner of "defense."This isn't "defense."The new budget from the White House will push U.S. military spending well above $2 billion a day.Foreclosing the ...
UPI - St. Louis Globe-Democrat
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The $708 billion U.S. Defense Department fiscal year 2011 proposal includes $159 billion for overseas operations, mainly Afghanistan and Iraq, officials said.The request, which also includes $549 billion in discretionary budgeting authority, carries on the reforms set in last year's Pentagon budget and builds on ...
Susan Cornwell - Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday proposed another two years of hefty spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, seeking Congress' approval for about $160 billion this year and again in fiscal 2011 to pay war costs.The war spending proposed by Obama is only slightly less than in each of the last ...
August Cole and Yochi J. Dreazen - Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—The Pentagon will lay out a long-term vision for U.S. national security on Monday that jettisons the military's decades-old belief that it needs to be prepared to fight two large-scale wars simultaneously, according to defense officials familiar with the matter. The shift in strategy sets up potential conflicts with defense ...
Bill Moyers - PBS
BILL MOYERS: Since the war began, more than 900 Americans have died in Afghanistan. Our casualties doubled in 2009, and according to the United Nations, civilian deaths there have spiraled upward, too, more than 2,400 in 2009, the most lethal year yet. For the 2010 fiscal year, Congress has appropriated ...
- New Left Project
aul Street is an independent policy researcher, journalist, historian, and speaker. He is the author of several books, including 'Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11' and most recently 'The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power'. He spoke to NLPs Alex Doherty on ...
