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Fashioning Resistance to Militarism

Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/03/09/fashioning-resistance-to-militarism/

March 9, 2009 - ...spending: the Veterans Administration sneaks into the health budget, Homeland Security creeps into transportation, NASA and nuclear weapons research is buried in energy, and international affairs mone...

Five years of war: Billions squandered, Opportunities lost

Article - /pressroom/articles/2008/03/18/five-years-of-war-billions-squandered-opportunitie/

March 18, 2008 - ...Security experts note that national security is more than weaponry and war. Security means having a strong defense (homeland security) and strong measures to prevent war in the first place. An emergin...

Guns versus butter -- our real economic challenge

Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/08/13/guns-versus-butter-our-real-economic-challenge/

Aug. 13, 2007 - ...spending (you can, for example, see how your state would benefit from a different definition of homeland security and find a whole set of helpful links). So, at this point, count me as one voter who i...

Are Iraq war costs spinning out of control?

Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/05/07/are-iraq-war-costs-spinning-out-of-control/

May 7, 2007 - ...spending on defense and security more effective and cost efficient, a task force managed by the Institute for Foreign Policy last month recommended a unified security budget that would pull together s...

How Uncle Sam spends your tax money

Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/04/13/how-uncle-sam-spends-your-tax-money/

April 13, 2007 - ...Security, and health care—as well as hefty interest payments on the ballooning national debt. Of the $2.7 trillion federal tax coffers, about 20% goes to military spending, 20% to Social Security paym...

Obama Cuts Domestic Spending and Increases Military Corporate Welfar

Article - /pressroom/articles/2006/12/06/obama-cuts-domestic-spending-and-increases-militar/

Dec. 6, 2006 - ...spending, they will sustain all of the proposed cuts. Jo Comerford, executive director of the National Priorities Project, states, "[Obama's] proposal caps non-security spending at $447 billion for ea...

Impact of President's Budget Proposal on States

Analysis - /analysis/2005/impact-of-presidents-budget-proposal-on-states/

Feb. 8, 2005 - ...spending would increase overall