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What the heck does the federal budget have to do with Michigan?

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...

The Peace Movement Today

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.

Quick Facts: The worldwide network of US military bases

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.

Stop the Wars, Fund the Train

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.

High-speed rail opposition demonstrates weak leadership

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.

GUEST VIEWPOINT: Federal budget-cutting ignores fattest part – the military

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.

Federal budget-cutting ignores fattest part-the military

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.

Obama Accelerates The Great American War Machine

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...

Wisconsin vs. the Great 'Conservative' Swindle

Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/20/wisconsin-vs-the-great-conservative-swindle/

Feb. 20, 2011 - Is Wisconsin broke or are we being swindled?

Wisconsin and Afghanistan – If only we'd connect the dots

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...

The President's Budget Unveiled

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 of the Fiscal Year 2012 Pentagon Spending Request

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.

The Human Toll

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.

Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2012 Pentagon Spending Request

Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/14/analysis-of-the-fiscal-year-2012-pentagon-spending/

Feb. 14, 2011 - BACKGROUND

Northampton city democratic committee votes to bring the troops and war taxes home

Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/14/northampton-city-democratic-committee-votes-to-bri/

Feb. 14, 2011 - ...War Taxes Home, furthering the grassroots effort to stop the war and increase domestic spending on human needs.

43 Afghanistan coalition military fatalities in 2011 through Feb. 12

Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/13/43-afghanistan-coalition-military-fatalities-in-20/

Feb. 13, 2011 - ...war now in its 10th year, says the organization, which compiles official data. So far there have been 2,324 fatalities of coalition military service members in the Afghanistan War.

Young filmmakers decry the trillion-dollar cost of two dumb wars

Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/10/young-filmmakers-decry-the-trillion-dollar-cost-of/

Feb. 10, 2011 - ...of these young people. While many of their peers were playing video games like "Call of Duty: Black Ops" and rehearsing the act of war, these kids took on the reality of war and its true costs, and he...

Obama, The Moderate Republican

Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/09/obama-the-moderate-republican/

Feb. 9, 2011 - ...of what used to be called "moderate Republicanism." The occasion was Obama's second State of the Union address, in which he assured millions of Americans watching on television that what's "at stake r...

Analysis: U.S. Military says keeps up with China; Isit enought?

Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/02/01/analysis-us-military-says-keeps-up-with-china-isit/

Feb. 1, 2011 - ...of faster-than-expected advances by China's military, but looming cost cuts are adding to doubts about the future of American power in the Pacific.

Solar Peace, or Blood for oil: The Need to Broaden the Peace Movement

Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/01/28/solar-peace-or-blood-for-oil-the-need-to-broaden-t/

Jan. 28, 2011 - ...of the Union address, President Obama opened a door through which the peace, labor and environmental movements should march, towards an energy future not dependent on resource wars.