Blog - /blog/2010/12/28/lame-duck-had-wings/
Dec. 28, 2010 - After the November elections, members of Congress returned to Capitol Hill for their “lame duck” session with one huge piece of unfinished business – the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. And while they failed...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/12/12/afghan-war-versus-human-needs/
Dec. 12, 2010 - 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 vo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/29/wikileaks-demistifying-deplomacy/
Nov. 29, 2010 - ...war for more than nine years now and there's no end in sight. Like the Pentagon, the State Department is serving the overall priorities of the warfare state. The nation's military and diplomacy are mo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/21/tomgram-david-swanson-all-war-all-the-time/
Nov. 21, 2010 - ...war funding, that -- as David Swanson makes clear -- you won't know whether our conflicts are Obama's wars, McKeon's wars, or... well, you'll have plenty of choices when it comes to continuing to boos...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/20/the-grinch-who-stole-xmas-as-holidays-approach-rep/
Nov. 20, 2010 - (NATIONAL) -- It may not be a great holiday season for some 5 million out of work Americans - and their spouses and children - who's unemployment benefits are about to run out.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/19/town-meeting-agrees-to-question-war-spending/
Nov. 19, 2010 - ...Afghanistan. The resolution also calls for a public discussion of the cost of the wars. One such discussion, on the impact of the wars on the economy, was scheduled to take place earlier this week at ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/18/tomgram-karen-greenberg-how-at-risk-is-the-justice/
Nov. 18, 2010 - ...War on Terror. Afghanistan to Washington, Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo, they all continue to live within a bubble of official innocence. Only the other day, our former president, George W. Bush, told NBC'...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/14/tomgram-engelhart-war-to-horizon/
Nov. 14, 2010 - ...ward 'clandestine war.'" Or by the millions of dollars in U.S. payments reportedly missing in Afghanistan, thanks to under-the-table or unrecorded handouts in unknown amounts to Afghan civilian gover...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/31/tomgram-william-astore-the-face-of-war-dont-look/
Oct. 31, 2010 - ...warriors" whose most dangerous moments are caught in an on-base sign that warns pilots at Creech to "drive carefully" on leaving after a work shift "in" Afghanistan or Iraq. This, it says, is "the mo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/28/northamptons-landmark-resolution-to-protest-war-do/
Oct. 28, 2010 - ...wars since their onset. Six city councilors voted for the measure, including Ward Four's city councilor Pamela C. Swartz. Smith College is within Ward 4, so Schwartz represents all Smith students regi...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/23/wars-what-wars/
Oct. 23, 2010 - ...war in Iraq and the 9-year-old war in Afghanistan? At a time when voters are being asked to choose the people who will govern the country, the nation seems to have gone mute about two long-running mil...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/22/a-victory-for-counter-recruitment/
Oct. 22, 2010 - ...Afghanistan), to the reluctance of many foreign policy elites to support the US escalation in Afghanistan, and to the aversion of many of those elites to an unprovoked attack on Iran. The significance...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/21/no-respect-no-peace/
Oct. 21, 2010 - ...wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to lean city and county budgets.Sacramento residents paid $536 million of federal taxes on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past three years, reports the National...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/16/changing-the-nations-spending-priorities-from-war-/
Oct. 16, 2010 - ...wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, more money would be available for housing, health care, education, jobs creation and more. In fact, the $720 million spent EACH DAY on the Iraq war is enough to hire 12,4...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/15/local-grannies-protest-cost-of-afghan-war/
Oct. 15, 2010 - ...War. We'll be there because we know we and our families can't afford this war anymore. Instead of spending our treasure – tax dollars and precious grandchildren's lives – in Afghanistan, we desperatel...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/14/northampton-passes-resolution-to-bring-the-war-dol/
Oct. 14, 2010 - ...wards the war were provided by the National Priorities Project, which calculates the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars based on how citizens taxes fund the wars' budget. The resolution lists the ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/14/wars-take-huge-toll-on-9th-district/
Oct. 14, 2010 - ...wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/12/debunking-the-ridiculousness-of-the-pverty-draft-l/
Oct. 12, 2010 - A multi-cultural military, for a multi-cultural country. Let's not let extremists frame the topic.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/08/one-nation-uniting-for-jobs-not-war/
Oct. 8, 2010 - ...wars themselves have not ended; Iraq's war continues with 50,000 re-named U.S. combat troops and 75,000 military contractors still occupying the country, while the U.S. war in Afghanistan has escalate...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/07/todays-army-smarter-richer-southern/
Oct. 7, 2010 - ...wars in Iraq ($747.3 billion) and Afghanistan ($299 billion), according to the Northampton-based National Priorities Project.It doesn't take a lot of imagination to come up with a long list of ways th...
