Analysis - /analysis/2011/whats-at-stake/
Aug. 22, 2011 - ...offers 50 state-level briefs focused on the local impact of war spending.
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 - ...of Columbia are projecting budget shortfalls for FY2012 totaling $102.9 billion. This amount could be wiped out entirely by the amount spent on the 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 - ...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 consists of more than 1,200 mayors, re...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/annual-costs-war-afghanistan/
June 7, 2011 - ...of its "Cost of War" analysis, NPP has calculated the total cost of the war in Afghanistan.
Analysis - /analysis/2011/us-security-spending-since-911/
May 26, 2011 - ...of Osama Bin Laden by U.S. special forces prompted a great many questions about the continued U.S. war in Afghanistan, and how much the United States has spent on “security” since the atta...
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...
Blog - /blog/2011/03/08/what-heck-does-federal-budget-have-do-michigan/
March 8, 2011 - ...of speaking at the Michigan Forum on Jobs and Human Needs on Saturday, March 6, 2001. Sponsored by a great mix of labor, faith, peace and student groups, the event was held in Lansing, Michigan, the s...
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 - ...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.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/27/high-speed-rail-opposition-demonstrates-weak-leade/
Feb. 27, 2011 - ...of Gov. Scott's opposition to the $2.4 federal funding of a speed train for Florida was discouraging news, but not surprising.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/24/guest-viewpoint-federal-budget-cutting-ignores-fat/
Feb. 24, 2011 - How much belt-tightening can a body take? Even the skinniest fashion models cannot strut their stuff in outfits that endanger their vital organs.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/24/federal-budget-cutting-ignores-fattest-part-the-mi/
Feb. 24, 2011 - How much belt-tightening can a body take? Even the skinniest fashion models cannot strut their stuff in outfits that endanger their vital organs.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/21/obama-accelerates-the-great-american-war-machine/
Feb. 21, 2011 - ...of magnitude larger than anything retained by any other country," observes Ezra Klein of The Washington Post February 14th. So when Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that major cuts in military sp...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/20/wisconsin-vs-the-great-conservative-swindle/
Feb. 20, 2011 - Is Wisconsin broke or are we being swindled?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/19/wisconsin-and-afghanistan-if-only-wed-connect-the-/
Feb. 19, 2011 - ...cost of this war is for each of our communities and each of us as individuals taxpayers. That each soldier costs our country $1 million a year (which doesn't include the cost of healing those who come...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/presidents-budget-fy2012/presidents-budget-unveiled/
Feb. 18, 2011 - ...of President Obama’s proposed budget highlighting salient points and offering key questions to consider Revenue and Spending Charts – a selection of actual and projected revenue and...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/analysis-fiscal-year-2012-pentagon-spending-request/
Feb. 15, 2011 - ...of Defense, not including funding for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan or the nuclear weapons related activities of the Department of Energy.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/15/the-human-toll/
Feb. 15, 2011 - ...of what President Obama called the "good war" in Afghanistan, I traveled to Kabul to take stock of the human toll of the increasingly bloody occupation.
