Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/11/voters-must-choose-between-war-and-social-programs/
March 11, 2010 - To the Editor:
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/10/kucinich-forces-debate-on-end-to-afghan-war/
March 10, 2010 - Liberal lawmaker, Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), will open debate on the Afghanistan war in the House of Representatives, Wednesday. Three hours of debate on his two page resolution, H.Con....
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/09/hellman-describes-process-priorities-of-national-b/
March 9, 2010 - Chris Hellman, the director of the National Priorities Project, visited Elon's campus Tuesday night to discuss the distribution of federal funds, particularly to the military, which traditionally has ...
Analysis - /analysis/2010/the-presidents-budget-fy2011/
Feb. 8, 2010 - This publication reviews Presidential budget requests spanning fiscal years 2008 to 2012 which include requested spending authorities from the final Bush budget to the Obama administration's projected...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/02/dont-call-it-a-defense-budget/
Feb. 2, 2010 - ...housing, education, nutrition, mass transit . . ."When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, social programs must inevitably suffer," Martin Luther King Jr. pointed out. "We can talk about g...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/01/big-war-spending-continues-under-obama/
Feb. 1, 2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday proposed another two years of hefty spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, seeking Congress' approval for about $160 billion this year and again in fiscal 2011 to pay ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/30/pentagon-shifts-its-strategy-to-small-scale-warfar/
Jan. 30, 2010 - WASHINGTON—The Pentagon will lay out a long-term vision for U.S. national security on Monday that jettisons the military's decades-old belief that it needs to be prepared to fight two large-scale wars...
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 - ...housing and equipment are included along with pay, food and fuel. Medical costs for the injured and veterans' compensation balloon as time goes on.In Iraq, the U.S. force is supposed to fall to 50,000...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/bill-moyers-journal/
Jan. 15, 2010 - ...housing units. Indeed, with money like that, we might be able to completely rebuild Haiti, ease the misery of those made homeless by that massive earthquake, and maybe even throw in the restoration of...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/30/afghan-war-cost-grips-both-parties/
Nov. 30, 2009 - WASHINGTON - A day before he is scheduled to announce a new strategy in Afghanistan, President Obama is under increasing pressure to explain how his administration intends to pay the rising costs of m...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/20/pointless-war-is-draining-funds-risking-security/
Nov. 20, 2009 - We often hear in American political rhetoric that the 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 t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/18/in-our-opinion-rethinking-priorities/
Nov. 18, 2009 - ...housing. That scrutiny seems particularly appropriate as President Obama contemplates a request from Army officials for 44,000 additional troops for the war in Afghanistan.In fact, according to NPP, t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/20/three-cheers-for-the-war-dividend/
Oct. 20, 2009 - ...Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Health and Human Services, Labor, Education, and Veterans Affairs to suck it up. After all, Americans, however unemployed, foreclosed, or unmedicated, wi...
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 - ...housing 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 I...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/09/28/850-empty-combat-boots-stand-at-attention-in-obama/
Sept. 28, 2009 - WASHINGTON - September 28 - Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), a military family organization opposed to war and The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization dedicated to peac...
Analysis - /analysis/2009/health-care-information-npps-database-is-a-one-sto/
Aug. 26, 2009 - Health care is one of the most pressing issues of our time. National Priorities Project can help you participate in the healthcare debate. NPP is the only resource in the country providing data that s...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/07/29/obama-defends-record-on-economy/
July 29, 2009 - President Obama said during an appearance in North Carolina on Wednesday that the United States may be seeing the "beginning of the end of the recession" as he gave an impassioned defense of his admin...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/05/15/96-billion-more-for-war/
May 15, 2009 - WASHINGTON - May 15 - The Washington Post reports today, "The House passed a bill yesterday that would provide more than $96 billion in funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through Sept. 30, a...
