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High-speed rail a national security priority

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/30/high-speed-rail-a-national-security-priority/

April 30, 2010 - By Paul Scaglia

Guns vs. Butter 2010

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/22/guns-vs-butter-2010/

April 22, 2010 - See if you can identify the bleeding heart liberal who said this:

2010 US Spending Priorities: 58% to Military

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/21/2010-us-spending-priorities-58-to-military/

April 21, 2010 - ...housing assistance. Mandatory spending includes programs, mostly entitlement programs, which are funded by eligibility rules or payment rules. Congress decides to create a program, for example, Food ...

Local Budgets and War Spending: A Reflection for Tax Day, April 15

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/17/local-budgets-and-war-spending-a-reflection-for-ta/

April 17, 2010 - From every corner of America urban, suburban and rural the news of shrinking budgets and slashed community services sounds forth like a tragic Greek chorus.

Where your tax dollars went

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/15/where-your-tax-dollars-went/

April 15, 2010 - Where your tax dollars went

Price of war too high

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/13/price-of-war-too-high/

April 13, 2010 - As America inches closer to a decade of war, the cost increasingly is being questioned. People who years ago might have feared being called unpatriotic are lambasting the trillion dollars spent since ...

Where Did Your 2009 Federal Income Tax Dollars Go?

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/01/where-did-your-2009-federal-income-tax-dollars-go/

April 1, 2010 - NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - April 1 - As April 15, 2010 approaches, taxpayers can take stock of how the federal government spent each of their 2009 federal income tax dollars. In its annual release, Where di...

Students Go Gaga, Want Out of Bad Romance with Obama

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...

A Civilized Riot: A Movement for Health Care Justice

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/20/a-civilized-riot-a-movement-for-health-care-justic/

March 20, 2010 - Congressman Alan Grayson (D-Florida) has been waging his own war on corporate insurance forces determined to maintain the fiscal "slaver's whip" by proposing a straightforward public option plan throu...

Seven Years Later

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: ...

Cost of wars to climb as Congress votes to continue funding

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/18/cost-of-wars-to-climb-as-congress-votes-to-continu/

March 18, 2010 - On March 10, 2010, Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich brought up a resolution to pull our troops out of Afghanistan within the next year. The bill was drafted to make Congress "claim responsibility ...

Dutchess taxpayers have spent $1.7 billion since 2001 on war in Afghanistan and Iraq

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/17/dutchess-taxpayers-have-spent-17-billion-since-200/

March 17, 2010 - Hi all...

Voters must choose between war and social programs

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/11/voters-must-choose-between-war-and-social-programs/

March 11, 2010 - To the Editor:

Kucinich Forces Debate On End to Afghan War

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....

Hellman describes process, priorities of national budget

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 ...

The President's Budget Fiscal Year 2011: Impact on the States

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...

Don't Call It a "Defense" Budget

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...

Big war spending continues under Obama

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 ...

Pentagon Shifts Its Strategy to Small-Scale Warfare

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...

Jared Loughner and the Paranoid Style

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...