Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/12/small-city-mayor-takes-on-the-pentagon/
April 12, 2010 - ...war" counter, funded entirely by private contributions.??That counter will offer a constantly changing estimate of the total price Binghamton's taxpayers have been paying for our wars in Iraq and Afgh...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/12/afghan-war-forum-packs-falmouth-hall/
April 12, 2010 - ...war is killing innocent people and hurting the reputation of the United States. The war boils down to an occupation, something the people of Afghanistan strongly resist, he said."You do not exit a war...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/11/war-taxing-america/
April 11, 2010 - ...wars. He's so sick and tired of it, in fact, that, urged on by local residents, he's decided to do something about it. He's planning to be the first mayor in the United States to decorate the façade ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/27/defense-budget-after-afghanistan-and-iraq-withdraw/
March 27, 2010 - ...war, notes Mr. Conetta. Indeed, the Obama budget plans to spend more on the Pentagon over eight years than any administration has since World War II.Measured in 2010 dollars, the Korean War cost $393,...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/22/students-go-gaga-want-out-of-bad-romance-with-obam/
March 22, 2010 - It's a Friday afternoon at Farragut Square, a genteel park just a few blocks from the White House in downtown Washington. Office workers, tourists and the occasional homeless person soak up the aftern...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/20/a-civilized-riot-a-movement-for-health-care-justic/
March 20, 2010 - ...war on corporate insurance forces determined to maintain the fiscal "slaver's whip" by proposing a straightforward public option plan through the existing Medicare network. Rather than the 2,000-plus-...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/18/seven-years-later/
March 18, 2010 - Late last week, in advance of the release of proposed 2011 fiscal budgets by the state House and Senate, Massachusetts legislative leaders sent a message to local governments across the Commonwealth: ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/18/cost-of-wars-to-climb-as-congress-votes-to-continu/
March 18, 2010 - ...Afghanistan within the next year. The bill was drafted to make Congress "claim responsibility for the troop casualties."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/17/dutchess-taxpayers-have-spent-17-billion-since-200/
March 17, 2010 - Hi all...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/10/kucinich-forces-debate-on-end-to-afghan-war/
March 10, 2010 - ...Afghanistan war in the House of Representatives, Wednesday. Three hours of debate on his two page resolution, H.Con. Res 248, will take place in the afternoon. The measure calls for the immediate wi...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/02/too-much-bang-bang-the-need-to-demilitarize-us-nat/
March 2, 2010 - ...war thinking of a key holdover from the Bush administration. With language reminiscent of the worst days of the cold war in the 1950s, Gates argued that the "demilitarization of Europe - where large s...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/01/is-military-keynesianism-the-solution/
March 1, 2010 - The United States is currently preparing to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by summer 2010. Military contractors, deeply integrated into the U.S. economy, will continue to prosper and pro...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/02/dont-call-it-a-defense-budget/
Feb. 2, 2010 - ...War II, not including the $160 billion in war funding for Iraq and Afghanistan."The word "defense" is inherently self-justifying. But it begs the question: Just what is being defended?For the United S...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/01/pentagon-budget-reflects-reform-goals/
Feb. 1, 2010 - WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The $708 billion U.S. Defense Department fiscal year 2011 proposal includes $159 billion for overseas operations, mainly Afghanistan and Iraq, officials said.The request, w...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/01/big-war-spending-continues-under-obama/
Feb. 1, 2010 - ...wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for the 2011 fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1.The peak for war funding in recent years was fiscal year 2008, Bush's last year in office, when spending on war operations r...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/30/pentagon-shifts-its-strategy-to-small-scale-warfar/
Jan. 30, 2010 - ...warfare. In the budget to be announced Monday, the Pentagon is expected to outline a shifting strategy in its approach to war. WSJ's Yochi Dreazen says the U.S. will no longer prepare for major wars a...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/jared-loughner-and-the-paranoid-style/
Jan. 15, 2010 - aul Street is an independent policy researcher, journalist, historian, and speaker. He is the author of several books, including 'Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11' and most rece...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/qa-cost-of-iraq-afghanistan-tops-1-trillion/
Jan. 15, 2010 - ...Afghanistan than Iraq, as the pace of U.S. military operations slows in Iraq and quickens in Afghanistan.HOW MUCH HAS BEEN SPENT ALREADY?Congress has approved $1.05 trillion dollars for the wars in Ir...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/bill-moyers-journal/
Jan. 15, 2010 - ...war began, more than 900 Americans have died in Afghanistan. Our casualties doubled in 2009, and according to the United Nations, civilian deaths there have spiraled upward, too, more than 2,400 in 20...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/30/afghan-war-cost-grips-both-parties/
Nov. 30, 2009 - ...Afghanistan, President Obama is under increasing pressure to explain how his administration intends to pay the rising costs of military operations in Afghanistan, which average about $3.6 billion per ...
