Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/20/pointless-war-is-draining-funds-risking-security/
Nov. 20, 2009 - ...war in Iraq is unjust, but that Afghanistan is the "good war." It is important that we, as a nation, become aware that this is a false claim and that the war in Afghanistan has detrimental effects on ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/18/in-our-opinion-rethinking-priorities/
Nov. 18, 2009 - ...war in Afghanistan.In fact, according to NPP, the U.S. has already spent over $232 billion on the Afghanistan conflict as of this week - enough to pay for over 800,000 four-year college scholarships f...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/26/where-the-cia-got-it-wrong-about-the-us/
Oct. 26, 2009 - Memo to the CIA: You may not be prepared for time-travel, but welcome to 2025 anyway! Your rooms may be a little small, your ability to demand better accommodations may have gone out the window, and t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/20/three-cheers-for-the-war-dividend/
Oct. 20, 2009 - ...war or the ever-rising numbers of dollars going to it anymore.$915.1 billion in total Iraq and Afghanistan war spending to date has been a no-brainer, even if it could, theoretically, have been traded...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/08/stuck-in-kabul-with-saigon-blues-again/
Oct. 8, 2009 - Some things never change. It was "only" eight years ago that the George W Bush administration unleashed its mini-shock and awe over Afghanistan to, in theory, smash the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Stuck ins...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/06/eight-years-of-us-war-in-afghanistan-the-dollars-a/
Oct. 6, 2009 - ...Afghanistan Cost of War in Afghanistan: a primer on both the human and economic costs of war, http://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost_of_war_afghanistan The numbers are staggering. $228 billion in Afg...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/09/28/850-empty-combat-boots-stand-at-attention-in-obama/
Sept. 28, 2009 - ...Afghanistan war spending since 2001. According to a recent CNN Poll, 57 percent of Americans who responded say they oppose the U.S. war and occupation in Afghanistan, the highest percentage ever since...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/07/16/national-priorities-project-tallies-cost-of-war-th/
July 16, 2009 - ...war-related actions in Iraq and $39.4 billion to Afghanistan[1] [2]. These new appropriations bring total war-related spending for Iraq to $687 billion and for Afghanistan to $228 billion, with a tota...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/05/15/96-billion-more-for-war/
May 15, 2009 - ...war for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2009. The estimated remaining $24.4 billion in war-funding is for the expanding war in Afghanistan and related operations. "At roughly 70/30 (70 percent for Iraq a...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/05/08/cost-of-war-in-afghanistan-over-178-billion-and-co/
May 8, 2009 - ...war funding bill. National Priorities Project (NPP) just released The Cost of War in Afghanistan, a report examining the exorbitant human and economic costs of this rapidly expanding war, which estima...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/04/07/your-2008-tax-dollar-37-cents-to-military-28-cents/
April 7, 2009 - ...war costs for Afghanistan and Iraq and associated trade-offs based on analyses of the $75.5 billion FY2009 war supplemental and the $130 billion allocated for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars allocated i...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/03/09/fashioning-resistance-to-militarism/
March 9, 2009 - ...wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since the United States doesn't have the money to finance these exorbitant expenditures, other nations — notably China but also Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore — are b...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/02/26/where-the-money-goes/
Feb. 26, 2009 - ...war machine while depleting our own communities. In San Francisco, taxpayers have already sent the U.S. government $2.2 billion for the Iraq war - enough to provide health care to 828,378 children for...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/10/23/president-bush-presses-congress-for-extra-42-bn-to/
Oct. 23, 2007 - ...war rises over the $500 billion mark early in the new year. His request for an additional $42 billion brings the total budget for Iraq and Afghanistan wars in the financial year beginning this month t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/09/26/analysis-outsourcing-war-is-good-business/
Sept. 26, 2007 - ...Afghanistan wars have been treated at VA centers since the start of the conflicts. "Every person injured on active duty is going to be a long-term cost of the war," Bilmes told The New Statesman. This...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/08/13/guns-versus-butter-our-real-economic-challenge/
Aug. 13, 2007 - ...war in Afghanistan and the ill-advised invasion of Iraq have clearly demonstrated the consequences of underestimating the number of troops required to fight two wars and defend our homeland. That's wh...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/05/07/are-iraq-war-costs-spinning-out-of-control/
May 7, 2007 - ...Afghanistan, and $30 billion for homeland security activities. That adds up to $500 billion for the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). Last week President Bush vetoed a $124 billion war-spending bill bec...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2006/12/11/tomgram-lewis-lapham-sweet-celebrity/
Dec. 11, 2006 - ...War commander, and his former subordinate General Stanley McChrystal, our former Afghan War commander before he became the first general since Douglas MacArthur to be axed by a president -- in his cas...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2006/12/06/obama-cuts-domestic-spending-and-increases-militar/
Dec. 6, 2006 - ...war and World War II, is justified by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, even if today's wars are taken out of the picture, there has still been a 54 percent increase since 1998. Last year inn...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2006/11/20/all-war-all-the-time/
Nov. 20, 2006 - ...wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "Bush's wars." Republicans are often the most outspoken supporters of these wars, while many Democrats label themselves "critics" and "opponents." Such wars, however, can...
