Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/17/local-budgets-and-war-spending-a-reflection-for-ta/
April 17, 2010 - ...us.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/04/a-navy-ship-competition/
April 4, 2010 - As the Navy prepares to choose one version of the littoral combat ship as the basis for future orders, all sides say the service needs to go for the best deal.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/27/defense-budget-after-afghanistan-and-iraq-withdraw/
March 27, 2010 - ...spending but exempted defense.The US defense budget adds up, at the very least, to 47 percent of total worldwide defense spending. That reflects the US role as the sole superpower, the various US inte...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/20/a-civilized-riot-a-movement-for-health-care-justic/
March 20, 2010 - ...us-page proposal endorsed by the president; Grayson's bill is a robust ... 4 pages.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/17/dutchess-taxpayers-have-spent-17-billion-since-200/
March 17, 2010 - Hi all...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/02/too-much-bang-bang-the-need-to-demilitarize-us-nat/
March 2, 2010 - ...Defense Robert Gates gave a provocative and even dangerous speech at the National Defense University (NDU) last week that revealed the cold-war thinking of a key holdover from the Bush administration....
Analysis - /analysis/2010/the-presidents-budget-fy2011/
Feb. 8, 2010 - ...spending authorities from the final Bush budget to the Obama administration's projected 2012 budget.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/02/dont-call-it-a-defense-budget/
Feb. 2, 2010 - ...defense."This isn't "defense."The new budget from the White House will push U.S. military spending well above $2 billion a day.Foreclosing the future of our country should not be confused with defendi...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/01/pentagon-budget-reflects-reform-goals/
Feb. 1, 2010 - ...Defense Review and 2010 Ballistic Missile Defense Review, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday."The fiscal 2011 budget request builds on the reforms begun in last year's defense budget," Gates s...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/30/pentagon-shifts-its-strategy-to-small-scale-warfar/
Jan. 30, 2010 - ...usly, according to defense officials familiar with the matter. The shift in strategy sets up potential conflicts with defense contractors and powerful lawmakers uneasy with the Pentagon's growing focu...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/jared-loughner-and-the-paranoid-style/
Jan. 15, 2010 - ...uscon, Arizona.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/qa-cost-of-iraq-afghanistan-tops-1-trillion/
Jan. 15, 2010 - ...usly running war cost counter on its website.The tally topped $1 trillion last month, when U.S. lawmakers approved the fiscal 2010 defense spending bill that included $128 billion to be spent on the t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/18/in-our-opinion-rethinking-priorities/
Nov. 18, 2009 - ...user to assess the cost of federal spending decisions on his or her own community. Visitors can see how much of a typical family's tax payment goes to military spending as compared to, say, housing an...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/20/three-cheers-for-the-war-dividend/
Oct. 20, 2009 - ...ush. Then, that same baseline defense budget grew by an astonishing 38%.If the message isn't already clear enough, let me summarize: it's time for the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Tra...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/06/eight-years-of-us-war-in-afghanistan-the-dollars-a/
Oct. 6, 2009 - ...using units; or $89.2 million from people in Evanston, IL which equals 1,372 elementary school teachers." With the passage of the FY 2010 Department of Defense budget, total U.S. spending for the Ira...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/07/29/obama-defends-record-on-economy/
July 29, 2009 - ...ush administration, which he said handed him a $1.3 trillion deficit, which has now grown under Mr. Obama to a projected $2 trillion by the end of the year. "I mean, seriously. I'm now president, so I...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/07/16/national-priorities-project-tallies-cost-of-war-th/
July 16, 2009 - ...spending by nearly $8 billion, yet total war spending now accounts for about 80% of supplemental spending. "No matter how we slice the numbers, we must consider that each dollar spent to fight wars in...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/04/07/your-2008-tax-dollar-37-cents-to-military-28-cents/
April 7, 2009 - ...using and community programs and food-related programs. "The first page of our tax publication offers a look at Bush-era spending. The second page – focused on the environment, energy and science – lo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/03/09/fashioning-resistance-to-militarism/
March 9, 2009 - ...usiastic crowd of 450 people convinced us that this unlikely genre is a highly effective way to discuss the militarization of culture in accessible terms and to get the audience thinking about heavy t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2008/03/18/five-years-of-war-billions-squandered-opportunitie/
March 18, 2008 - ...usands of lives lost in this unnecessary and tragic war. But the dollar cost has other enormous human consequences as well. On a national level, we have spent roughly $522 billion thus far on this war...
