Blog - /blog/2010/11/30/dollars-and-sense-nuclear-weapons/
Nov. 30, 2010 - In Prague last April, President Obama raised the world’s hopes with his speech calling for a “nuclear free future.” Since then, his Administration has made non-proliferation – preventing the spread of...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/29/wikileaks-demistifying-deplomacy/
Nov. 29, 2010 - ...military and diplomacy are moving parts of the same vast war machinery. Such a contraption requires a muscular bodyguard of partial truths, deceptions and outright lies. With the USA?s ongoing war eff...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/21/tomgram-david-swanson-all-war-all-the-time/
Nov. 21, 2010 - ...military ever get the necessary money for the weapons it needs to keep us safe, and where exactly is that military heading, anyway? "My concern is we end up back with a 'bow and arrow' -- I'm hoping ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/20/the-grinch-who-stole-xmas-as-holidays-approach-rep/
Nov. 20, 2010 - (NATIONAL) -- It may not be a great holiday season for some 5 million out of work Americans - and their spouses and children - who's unemployment benefits are about to run out.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/19/town-meeting-agrees-to-question-war-spending/
Nov. 19, 2010 - ...military service. "When you oppose a war through defunding, you would be neither supporting the war nor would you be supporting the troops who are risking their lives to protect your safety and your f...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/18/tomgram-karen-greenberg-how-at-risk-is-the-justice/
Nov. 18, 2010 - ...military, the CIA, or the government has evidently committed an abuse of power or been responsible for acts of torture or criminality that couldn't be absolved. Only recently after careful study, for ...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/16/all-hands-debt-entering-critical-debate-over-federal-deficit-reduction/
Nov. 16, 2010 - Last week the Co-Chairmen of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform -- former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson and former White House Chief-of-Staff Erskine Bowles -- rele...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/14/tomgram-engelhart-war-to-horizon/
Nov. 14, 2010 - ...military man in charge of training Afghan security forces, Lieutenant General William Caldwell, for another 900 U.S. and NATO trainers in the coming months, lest the improbable "transition" date of 20...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/09/npp-launches-new-webinar-jobs-deficits-taxes/
Nov. 9, 2010 - ...military spending.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/27/town-meeting-for-jobs-not-wars-october-30-philadel/
Oct. 27, 2010 - Town Meeting for Jobs Not Wars
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/24/our-national-priorities-the-trend/
Oct. 24, 2010 - ...military. Our current pie charts show 54% of the federal budget pie spent on military. If Obama's FY11 budget request is met, the new pies we'll soon be making will show 57% or even 58% depending on w...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/23/wars-what-wars/
Oct. 23, 2010 - ...military campaigns that are not only adding enormously to the national debt, but taking an accelerating and expanding toll on a minority of our fellow citizens. The wars are far away, in complicated, ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/22/congressional-candidates-face-off-in-barnstable/
Oct. 22, 2010 - As the four men and one woman running for US Representative of the 10th Congressional District took to the stage, the audience erupted in cheers and chants for their chosen candidate.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/22/a-victory-for-counter-recruitment/
Oct. 22, 2010 - ...military when they see no better option for their future. Far from being an "all-volunteer" force, as commonly asserted, the US military survives in large part by coercing economically-disadvantaged a...
Blog - /blog/2010/10/18/worried-about-deficit-why-not-choose-sustainable-defense/
Oct. 18, 2010 - That’s the message Congressmen Barney Frank (D-MA) and Ron Paul (R-TX), along with 55 of their Capitol Hill colleagues are pushing.On October 13, 2010 they sent a letter to the President’s National Co...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/16/changing-the-nations-spending-priorities-from-war-/
Oct. 16, 2010 - ...Military $1987 Health $1507Non-military interest on debt 615Military interest on debt 405 Income security and labor 735Housing and community development 637Veterans benefits 540 Food 277Government 262...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/14/northampton-passes-resolution-to-bring-the-war-dol/
Oct. 14, 2010 - ...military serving overseas. You may say that the resolution doesn't say that we don't support the troops," said Mary Lou Jillson, a Northampton resident who opposed the measure, "It isn't what we say, ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/14/wars-take-huge-toll-on-9th-district/
Oct. 14, 2010 - Free tuition at Virginia Tech? Free health care for low-income families? Drastically reduced taxes for all? Safer vacations abroad? These are but a few ways in which citizens of the 9th District could...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/12/debunking-the-ridiculousness-of-the-pverty-draft-l/
Oct. 12, 2010 - ...military, for a multi-cultural country. Let's not let extremists frame the topic.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/12/south-leads-military/
Oct. 12, 2010 - ...military volunteers. The regional breakdown shows that active duty recruits per 1,000 youth is 1.81 in the South; 1.01 in the Northeast; 1.33 in the Midwest and the West has 1.44. That translates into...
