Analysis - /analysis/2012/presidents-budget-fy2013/deficit/
Feb. 29, 2012 - ...war spending in Iraq and Afghanistan; and changes in the tax code that increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans and close some corporate tax loopholes. A February 2012 poll found that 85 percent of ...
Blog - /blog/2012/02/22/Fiscal-Year-2013-Pentagon-Spending-Request/
Feb. 23, 2012 - On February 14, 2012 the Obama Administration released its proposed Fiscal Year 2013 budget for the federal government. The request includes $525.4 billion for the Department of Defense (DoD) in Fisca...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/analysis-fiscal-year-2013-pentagon-spending-request/
Feb. 16, 2012 - ...Afghanistan or the nuclear weapons activities of the Department of Energy. The Pentagon is seeking ways to reduce spending by $487 billion over the next decade.
Blog - /blog/2012/02/10/tracking_cost_of_war/
Feb. 10, 2012 - ...wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Recent events including the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq and the winding down of the troop “surge” in Afghanistan have led to the question – wh...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/talking-about-military-spending-and-the-pentagon-budget/
Feb. 8, 2012 - An FAQ focused on the immediate and long-term impact of projected Pentagon spending.
Analysis - /analysis/2012/an-economy-thats-built-to-last-the-2012-state-of-the-union-address/
Jan. 26, 2012 - National Priorities Project takes apart President Obama’s last State of the Union Address in his first term as president.
Blog - /blog/2012/01/13/Pentagons-New-Blueprint/
Jan. 13, 2012 - On January 5 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Martin E. Dempsey – joined by President Obama in a rare visit to the Pentagon – rolled o...
Blog - /blog/2011/10/04/Build_Better_Budget/
Oct. 4, 2011 - Right now our elected officials are trying to balance the federal budget on the backs of the most marginalized Americans. This crusade to drag government into the bathroom and drown it will, over time...
Blog - /blog/2011/09/20/cost_of_war/
Sept. 20, 2011 - ...wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of Fiscal Year 2011 (September 30, 2011) – $797.3 billion for Iraq and $459.8 billion for Afghanistan. $7.6 Trillion – The total amount spent on “security”...
Blog - /blog/2011/08/16/How-Safe-Are-You/
Aug. 16, 2011 - NOTE: This article originally appeared on TomDispatch.com.The killing of Osama Bin Laden did not put cuts in national security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did. And mild ...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/afghan-war-costs-compared-state-budget-shortfalls/
June 27, 2011 - ...war in Afghanistan this year ($122 billion in FY2011).
Blog - /blog/2011/06/20/order-form-more-perfect-union-nations-mayors-resolve-end-wars/
June 20, 2011 - Right now in Baltimore, top elected officials from cities across the country are meeting for the 79th time since the founding of the U.S. Conference of Mayors during the Great Depression. The group co...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/annual-costs-war-afghanistan/
June 7, 2011 - ...War" analysis, NPP has calculated the total cost of the war in Afghanistan.
Analysis - /analysis/2011/us-security-spending-since-911/
May 26, 2011 - ...war in Afghanistan, and how much the United States has spent on “security” since the attacks on September 11, 2001. National Priorities Project has the numbers.
Blog - /blog/2011/05/12/house-spending-levels-cut-everyoneexcept-defense/
May 12, 2011 - Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee released its 302(b) allocations for Fiscal Year 2012. These numbers reflect the amount of spending each appropriations subcommittee will have for the progr...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/presidents-budget-fy2012/defining-fy2012-budget-debate/
April 20, 2011 - House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s “Path for Prosperity” and the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s (CPC) “People’s Budget” are more than competing b...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/analysis-fiscal-year-2011-budget-agreement/
April 13, 2011 - Quite literally at the 11th hour on Friday, April 8, narrowly averting a government shutdown, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and President Obama reached agreement on a spending bill t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/03/07/the-peace-movement-today/
March 7, 2011 - Recently, when commentators have bothered to notice the American peace movement, they have pronounced it dead. But this is far from the case.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/03/04/quick-facts-the-worldwide-network-of-us-military-b/
March 4, 2011 - Once upon a time, you could trace the spread of imperialism by counting up colonies. America's version of the colony is the military base.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/03/03/stop-the-wars-fund-the-train/
March 3, 2011 - ...war. "Locals react to rail plan rejection" by Michael D. Bates, Hernando Today , Feb. 19.
