Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/15/pentagon-spending-on-the-chopping-block/
July 15, 2010 - ...of the budget debate. Not since the end of the Cold War and the discussion of a "peace dividend" has the Pentagon budget—generally considered sacrosanct—received such scrutiny. In January 2010, Presid...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/14/pratt-ge-escalate-engine-battle-in-congress/
July 14, 2010 - ...of the century," noted Hellman, of the National Priorities Project.As such, he added, defense interests such as GE worry that if they don't get a piece of it, they will be shut out of the market for d...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/11/whos-war-is-it-anyway/
July 11, 2010 - ...of the war in Afghanistan. He called for an "international order that can meet challenges of our generation" that ranges from nuclear proliferation to climate change.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/07/preventing-and-curing-conflict/
July 7, 2010 - ...of us saw war as a global health problem?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/06/afghanistan-the-graveyard-of-delusion/
July 6, 2010 - Welcome to Afghanistan: the 2nd most corrupt place on earth. The perfect vacation spot. In this Middle East paradise the weather is warm and the opium could not be better. For some great tourist desti...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/30/those-who-profited-from-deficit-spending-should-be/
June 30, 2010 - ...of the American people by stopping corporate welfare to concentrated industries, taxing the wealthiest that profited from three decades of tax breaks and reigning in weapons and war spending. Expandin...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/28/of-bubbles-and-bailouts/
June 28, 2010 - ...of the money in the form of loans and purchases of toxic assets and other securities that may—or may not—be sellable, amounting to 80% of the $4.7 trillion. And contrary to popular belief, the bailout...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/22/trillion-dollar-dreams-what-military-spending-coul/
June 22, 2010 - ...costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq at the same time that the country recently surpassed one thousand deaths of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan.Many feel with all the money spent Americ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/22/what-are-our-congressional-representatives-thinkin/
June 22, 2010 - ...of) progress on the pending Extender legislation in Congress we read that the latest bright idea to bring down the cost of the legislation is to remove unemployment benefits and federal Medicaid fundi...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/21/japan-given-afghanistan-priority-mining-rights/
June 21, 2010 - ...cost of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq surpassed $1 trillion, according to National Priorities Project's Cost of War.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/18/how-one-trillion-dollars-could-be-better-spent/
June 18, 2010 - MoveOn.org
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/15/the-money-culture/
June 15, 2010 - We are killing the planet. There is no other way to say it. Our greed and arrogance have prevented us from taking the necessary steps to ensure that the planet we will pass along to our descendents is...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/15/focus-on-national-security/
June 15, 2010 - ...of May 30 the budgetary cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars passed the $1 trillion mark. The latest National Security Strategy released by the White House on May 27 contains an unusual amount of dis...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/13/greenwashing-to-pentagon/
June 13, 2010 - ...of Mexico, just one of many manifestations of perilous ecological degradation across the planet, the need to challenge war and militarism - especially in terms of the United States - becomes ever-more...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/10/cost-of-us-war-in-afghanistan-iraq-exceeds-1-trl/
June 10, 2010 - ...cost of the United States' wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost taxpayers more than one trillion dollars as of June 1, according to a report published by a nonprofit organization "National Prioritie...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/10/wasted-on-the-war-trillion-with-a-t/
June 10, 2010 - ...of money to spend even on something that works. But that kind of spending on two bloody wars that have taken thousands of American lives, destabilized volatile parts of the world, and done nothing to...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/10/us-military-campaigns-in-iraq-and-afghanistan-cost/
June 10, 2010 - ...ofit organization which tracks American military spending says the total cost of the US military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan has crossed $1 trillion.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/10/the-longest-day-and-the-longest-war/
June 10, 2010 - ...War II, but he didn't mention that the day he was speaking was the 66th anniversary of the most significant event in the war of my youth, my generation.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/10/mass-murder-in-charlottesvill-virginia/
June 10, 2010 - ...of the blue up in the mountains, not actually in Charlottesville. Most recently, a University of Virginia student was alleged to have killed his girlfriend; this made national news, apparently because...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/08/us-war-costs-1-trillion-and-counting/
June 8, 2010 - ...of combat, U.S. spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan recently passed the $1 trillion mark, making them the biggest wartime expenditure since World War II, according to a new report.
