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In Search of Real Security, Part One: A Closer Look at Our Basic Needs in a Time of Crisis

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/26/in-search-of-real-security-part-one-a-closer-look-/

Aug. 26, 2010 - LIHUE—Ours is a nation obsessed with security. Two months after the bitter sting of the 9/11 attacks, the federal government formed the Transportation Security Administration and, one year later, the ...

National Priorities

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/25/national-priorities/

Aug. 25, 2010 - ...military is fearsome and guarantees that we are hated by much of the world, feared by all, and that our ecology and economy are both in downward death spirals.

NPP's New Trade Offs Tool Shows the Magnitude of Federal Spending

Analysis - /analysis/2010/national-priorities-projects-trade-offs-tool-shows/

Aug. 24, 2010 - ...military veterans.

How Much Is Enough? America's Runaway Military Spending

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/23/how-much-is-enough-americas-runaway-military-spend/

Aug. 23, 2010 - ...military spending."

Stop Talkin' Bout a Green(washed) Revolution

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/19/stop-talkin-bout-a-greenwashed-revolution/

Aug. 19, 2010 - ...military-related expenditures (through September, 2010) at a mind-numbing $1.09 trillion.

Last U.S. combat brigade leaves Iraq

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/19/last-us-combat-brigade-leaves-iraq/

Aug. 19, 2010 - ...military. The U.S. invaded Iraq in March, 2003 after the Bush administration accused the country of harboring chemical and biological weapons that could be used in a terrorist attack. There were also ...

Debt, Deficits, and Defense Cuts

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/19/debt-deficits-and-defense-cuts/

Aug. 19, 2010 - ...military budget. The proposed cuts, which total $960 billion, could leave the U.S. as a second-rate military power.

America's Biggest Jobs Program – the US military

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/14/americas-biggest-jobs-program-the-us-military/

Aug. 14, 2010 - ...military.

Rebuild America, or Bomb Afghanistan? Bring our War Dollars Home!

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/23/rebuild-america-or-bomb-afghanistan-bring-our-war-/

July 23, 2010 - Meanwhile, a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is talking about cuts to Social Security, Medicare and the home mortgage deduction to address the nation's growing budget deficit.

Pentagon Spending on the Chopping Block

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/15/pentagon-spending-on-the-chopping-block/

July 15, 2010 - ...military spending is a drain on more important domestic priorities welcome it as a step towards a more common sense approach to military budgeting. According to the Project on Defense Alternatives, on...

Pratt, GE escalate engine battle in Congress

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/14/pratt-ge-escalate-engine-battle-in-congress/

July 14, 2010 - ...military spending plan."Clearly, both sides feel this issue is coming to a head," said Chris Hellman, of the National Priorities Project, a nonpartisan research group that tracks federal spending. "T...

Who's War is it anyway?

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/11/whos-war-is-it-anyway/

July 11, 2010 - As recently as last month, President Barrack Obama in his speech to West Point cadets was defending his escalation of the war in Afghanistan. He called for an "international order that can meet challe...

Preventing and curing conflict

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/07/preventing-and-curing-conflict/

July 7, 2010 - What if more of us saw war as a global health problem?

Afghanistan: The Graveyard of Delusion

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/06/afghanistan-the-graveyard-of-delusion/

July 6, 2010 - Welcome to Afghanistan: the 2nd most corrupt place on earth. The perfect vacation spot. In this Middle East paradise the weather is warm and the opium could not be better. For some great tourist desti...

Senate candidate Kendrick Meek says wars need public focus

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/06/senate-candidate-kendrick-meek-says-wars-need-publ/

July 6, 2010 - ...military installations. Problem is, the latest unemployment figures from the state Agency for Workforce Innovation show nearly 1.1 million Floridians are out of work, a statewide jobless rate of 11.7 ...

South leads for military recruits

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/03/south-leads-for-military-recruits/

July 3, 2010 - ...military recruitment show a different story.The National Priorities Project, a Boston-based group that analyzes federal data, routinely studies military recruitment rates across the country. Its most ...

Those Who Profited From Deficit Spending Should Be Focused on Fiscal Commission

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/30/those-who-profited-from-deficit-spending-should-be/

June 30, 2010 - The United States can be fiscally responsible and meet the urgent necessities of the American people by stopping corporate welfare to concentrated industries, taxing the wealthiest that profited from ...

Trillion Dollar Dreams: What Military Spending Could Buy

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/22/trillion-dollar-dreams-what-military-spending-coul/

June 22, 2010 - The United States reached the $1 trillion mark in the costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq at the same time that the country recently surpassed one thousand deaths of American soldiers serving in...

Japan Given Afghanistan Priority Mining Rights

Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/21/japan-given-afghanistan-priority-mining-rights/

June 21, 2010 - ...military deaths in Afghanistan total 1,103. In May 2010, the total cost of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq surpassed $1 trillion, according to National Priorities Project's Cost of War.