Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/22/unmanned-space-plane-opening-door-to-space-weaponi/
April 22, 2010 - ...military vehicle that combines an airplane's agility with a spacecraft's capacity to travel in orbit at 5 miles per second." NASA began the X-37B project in 1999, but the program was later moved under...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/21/2010-us-spending-priorities-58-to-military/
April 21, 2010 - ...military.' However, this category does not include foreign military financing, security assistance, and other programs commonly thought of as military. Other types of discretionary spending include th...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/20/air-force-to-launch-x-37-space-plane-precursor-to-/
April 20, 2010 - lear, sunny skies are forecast for Cape Canaveral Wednesday, perfect weather for the launch of a new unmanned spacecraft and the dawn of an era. Just don't expect the Air Force to tell you what that n...
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.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/16/moyers-on-the-cost-of-war/
April 16, 2010 - In his closing essay this week Bill Moyers talks about Binghamton, New York's Mayor Matt Ryan and his effort to make manifest the costs of war to his town and its citizens. The mayor has installed a "...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/15/senator-d-ny-charles-e-schumer-on-the-afghanistan-/
April 15, 2010 - ...military commitment from the U.S. (1961-1973), and it's worth remembering that Vietnam didn't fall to the NVA until April, 1975, over two years from when all parties had signed a cease-fire (are you l...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/15/binghamton-ny-marks-tax-day-with-city-hall-counter/
April 15, 2010 - ...military budget that I believe is out of control. And we can't make those same mistakes if we're going to meet our goals to take care of our citizens, provide good infrastructure and public safety and...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/15/where-your-tax-dollars-went/
April 15, 2010 - Where your tax dollars went
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/12/small-city-mayor-takes-on-the-pentagon/
April 12, 2010 - ...military expenditures and interest on military-related debt (generated, in part, by current war spending). The next highest amount -- $137 -- went to healthcare, including Medicare, Medicaid, and the ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/11/war-taxing-america/
April 11, 2010 - Matt Ryan, the mayor of Binghamton, New York, is sick and tired of watching people in local communities "squabble over crumbs," as he puts it, while so much local money pours into the Pentagon's coffe...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/06/obama-puts-new-limits-on-us-use-of-nuclear-weapons/
April 6, 2010 - he Obama administration began its journey toward a world free of nuclear weapons by declaring that it would rely on such weapons less and conventional weapons more.
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...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/27/defense-budget-after-afghanistan-and-iraq-withdraw/
March 27, 2010 - With the withdrawal of its military forces in Iraq already under way and increasing talk of winding down operations in Afghanistan, the United States is poised to reap a "peace dividend."But it won't ...
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...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/19/little-fanfare-for-the-7th-anniversary-of-war-in-i/
March 19, 2010 - BAGHDAD — Almost seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mi...
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 ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/17/dutchess-taxpayers-have-spent-17-billion-since-200/
March 17, 2010 - Hi all...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/09/hellman-describes-process-priorities-of-national-b/
March 9, 2010 - ...military, which traditionally has a very high budget.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/02/too-much-bang-bang-the-need-to-demilitarize-us-nat/
March 2, 2010 - ...military force and the risks that go with it - has gone from a blessing in the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st century." He concluded that a perc...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/01/is-military-keynesianism-the-solution/
March 1, 2010 - ...Military contractors, deeply integrated into the U.S. economy, will continue to prosper and profit from increased military spending resulting from this surge of troops. At a time when unemployment in ...
