Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/07/news-in-brief-afghan-war-rages-for-nine-years/
Oct. 7, 2010 - ...war in Afghanistan officially began nine years ago today. At least 2,118 United States service men and women have been killed and 8,530 have been wounded in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/07/marin-voice-wars-grim-echoes-at-home/
Oct. 7, 2010 - ...war effort in Afghanistan is beginning its 10th year, with 100,000 American troops in that country nearly a decade after the invasion started on Oct. 7, 2001.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/01/federal-money-everyones-morals/
Oct. 1, 2010 - "... Budgets are moral documents," states Congresswoman Barbara Lee, but "they don't lend themselves to a moral reading." She adds that increases in military spending are made at the expense of federa...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/01/one-nation-saving-the-american-dream/
Oct. 1, 2010 - Saturday, tens of thousands of citizens will converge on Washington for a historic march.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/28/npp-afsc-reach-out-to-kids/
Sept. 28, 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...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/24/around-town-activist-brings-war-dollars-measure-to/
Sept. 24, 2010 - ...ward war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan be returned for domestic priorities instead will be presented to fall Town Meeting.Town Meeting member Ruth Hooke this week said the "Bring the War Dollars Hom...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/23/pickens-warns-against-buying-enemy-oil/
Sept. 23, 2010 - ...wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost American taxpayers more than $1.08 trillion US, not including the long-term indirect costs of treating more than 7,200 wounded. The mounting costs of both wars a...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/22/amherst-town-meeting-to-consider-war-dollars-measu/
Sept. 22, 2010 - ...wars in Iraq and Afghanistan back to local communities. Ruth Hooke, a Town Meeting member, said Tuesday that the "Bring the War Dollars Home" petition is part of a nationwide endeavor to improve commu...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/20/who-will-face-the-music-for-iraqs-future-a-sad-sot/
Sept. 20, 2010 - ...wars in modern history is well-grounded. Indeed, from the very first day of Operation Iraqi Freedom, which toppled Saddam Hussein's regime and plunged the whole country into never before seen state o...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/18/tell-politicians-how-to-spend-money-win-500/
Sept. 18, 2010 - ...wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the meantime, education budgets are being slashed in schools like this one: [media image] You're more plugged into the communities you grew up in than policymakers in ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/11/peace-group-gathering-to-end-americas-longest-war/
Sept. 11, 2010 - On the ninth anniversary of 9-11, I recall the disbelief, shock, anger, fear and sadness I felt when I heard of the 3,000 people killed as terrorists used airplanes as weapons to attack the World Trad...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/10/green-party-candidate-sc-needs-to-be-more-fiscally/
Sept. 10, 2010 - Green Party U.S. Senate candidate Tom Clements says he would like to see money that comes into South Carolina applied more responsibly to address South Carolina's high jobless rate.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/01/war-toll-is-heaviest-in-poor-rural-areas-research-/
Sept. 1, 2010 - ALLENDALE, S.C. --- Rodricka Youmans got tired of borrowing money from his father to pay the rent. It hurt his pride.Barely out of his teens and already tied down by the responsibilities of fatherhood...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/01/a-speech-for-endless-war/
Sept. 1, 2010 - ...war.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/01/the-war-in-iraq-at-what-cost/
Sept. 1, 2010 - ...war in Iraq still wasn't made clear -- and it never was.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/27/cleburne-taxpayers-will-spend-big-on-afghan-war/
Aug. 27, 2010 - ...Afghanistan war spending in fiscal year 2011 - $3.1 million to be exact.According to their research, that same $3.1 million could be spent locally in more beneficial ways such as:*Providing 448 milita...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/26/in-search-of-real-security-part-one-a-closer-look-/
Aug. 26, 2010 - 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 ...
Analysis - /analysis/2010/national-priorities-projects-trade-offs-tool-shows/
Aug. 24, 2010 - 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 spendin...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/24/national-priorities-projects-trade-offs-tool-shows/
Aug. 24, 2010 - 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 sp...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/23/how-much-is-enough-americas-runaway-military-spend/
Aug. 23, 2010 - 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 eco...
