Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/15/focus-on-national-security/
June 15, 2010 - ...military retirees. More details are available in a June 9 presentation to the budget commission by CBO assistant director Matthew Goldberg. On June 7, The Politico reported that increasing numbers of ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/13/greenwashing-to-pentagon/
June 13, 2010 - ...military is the world's single biggest consumer of fossil fuels, and the single entity most responsible for destabilizing the Earth's climate.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/11/panel-commissioneb-by-barney-frank-recommends-near/
June 11, 2010 - A panel commissioned by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is recommending nearly $1 trillion in cuts to the Pentagon's budget during the next 10 years.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/11/three-wars-uncompleted-the-price-unpaid/
June 11, 2010 - ...military formed AFRICOM and began to turn the drug-runners of the Sahel into a detachment of al-Qaeda, as well to pretend that the Somali pirates came out of Old History rather than the overfishing of...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/11/defense-spending-cuts/
June 11, 2010 - ...military preparedness, or the sustainability of key programs.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/10/cost-of-us-war-in-afghanistan-iraq-exceeds-1-trl/
June 10, 2010 - The cost of the United States' wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost taxpayers more than one trillion dollars as of June 1, according to a report published by a nonprofit organization "National Prior...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/10/wasted-on-the-war-trillion-with-a-t/
June 10, 2010 - ...military surge with a civilian surge – aid workers, diplomatic initiatives, civil society programs, teachers, democracy-promotion specialists, agricultural experts and more. It will make us safer at ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/10/us-military-campaigns-in-iraq-and-afghanistan-cost/
June 10, 2010 - ...military spending says the total cost of the US military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan has crossed $1 trillion.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/10/the-longest-day-and-the-longest-war/
June 10, 2010 - Ordinarily, this column, devoted to issues confronting older Americans, doesn't get into more cosmic subjects of war and peace. But the bloviating former headmaster who spoke too long at my granddaugh...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/10/mass-murder-in-charlottesvill-virginia/
June 10, 2010 - During the past five years since I moved back to Charlottesville, Virginia, I had yet to observe the slightest violent incident, prior to the recent spree of horrific mass murders. There was crime, bu...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/08/us-war-costs-1-trillion-and-counting/
June 8, 2010 - After nearly a decade of combat, U.S. spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan recently passed the $1 trillion mark, making them the biggest wartime expenditure since World War II, according to a ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/05/us-spending-on-wars-in-iraq-and-afghanistan-exceed/
June 5, 2010 - On Memorial Day 2010, Americans honored the service of the hundreds of thousands of men and women who have fought in the nation's wars, past and present. During this year's holiday, parades and ceremo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/03/group-tired-of-spending-money-on-war/
June 3, 2010 - Drivers slowed down by the "bottleneck" on Route 4 near Belle Avenue, because a 40-foot banner hanging from the Garrison Avenue Bridge caught their eyes on Sunday.
Analysis - /analysis/2010/npps-federal-priorities-database-gets-update/
June 2, 2010 - National Priorities Project has updated all state-level data in its Federal Priorities Database with the latest available federal government data. This database offers a collection of federal spending...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/01/bringing-the-troops-and-war-dollars-home-a-forum-i/
June 1, 2010 - A couple of weeks ago there was a teach-in here in Northampton about the War in Afghanistan, its causes and effects. One of the workshops that followed involved an effort that began in Maine to urge ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/31/what-has-reno-nevada-got-to-show-for-1-trillion-in/
May 31, 2010 - As of 10:06 a.m., Sunday, May 30th, the United States will have spent $1 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/31/can-we-afford-to-be-the-bank-of-afghanistan-r-us-i/
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Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/30/defense-spending-the-top-priority-critics-fear/
May 30, 2010 - As the United States retains its place as the world's largest defense spender for another year, and the Cost of War counter inches toward the $1 trillion mark, community activists bemoan the prioritie...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/30/city-council-eyes-war-policy/
May 30, 2010 - NORTHAMPTON - The city is making another venture into federal and foreign policy as it prepares to sound out residents on a resolution to bring home the local tax money that is funding America's wars ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/29/plight-of-black-poor-worsens/
May 29, 2010 - "The conditions now, in my view, are unquestionably worse in the inner cities," attorney and civil rights stalwart David Ginsburg told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Education is worse. Housing is wors...
