Privatizing the War on Terror: America’s Military Contractors
Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:07 — adminAmerica’s troops may be returning home from Iraq, but contrary to President Obama’s assertion that “the tide of war is receding,” we’re far from done paying the costs of war. In fact, at the same time that Obama is reducing the number of troops in Iraq, he’s replacing them with military contractors at far greater expense to the taxpayer and redeploying American troops to other parts of the globe, including Africa, Australia and Israel.
http://njtoday.net/2012/01/16/privatizing-the-war-on-terror-americas-mil...
I am sorry for the role I played in Fallujah
Sat, 12/24/2011 - 23:11 — adminIt has been seven years since the end of the second siege of Fallujah – the US assault that left the city in ruins, killed thousands of civilians, and displaced hundreds of thousands more; the assault that poisoned a generation, plaguing the people who live there with cancers and their children with birth defects.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/22/fallujah-us-marine-iraq
One Nation, Under Arms
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 18:48 — adminThe private papers of the late George F. Kennan, Cold War architect and diplomat extraordinaire, reveal his anguish over the way his famous 1947 warning about Soviet expansionism helped transform the America he loved into one he no longer recognized: a national-security state.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/01/Todd-Purdum-on-National-Security
In Baghdad, Panetta Leads Uneasy Moment of Closure
Thu, 12/15/2011 - 21:58 — adminBAGHDAD — Almost nine years after the first American tanks began massing on the Iraq border, the Pentagon declared an official end to its mission here, closing a troubled conflict that helped reshape American politics and left a bitter legacy of anti-American sentiment across the Muslim world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/middleeast/panetta-in-baghdad-fo...
New Army trucks may cost $350,000 each: GAO
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 17:17 — adminWASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. military’s humvee truck replacement is expected to cost the U.S. around $350,000 each, on average, before tacking on armor and any additional high-tech equipment, according to a Government Accountability Office report released this week.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-army-trucks-may-cost-350000-each-ga...
British soldiers in Afghanistan shown 'war snuff movies'
Wed, 09/28/2011 - 16:14 — adminDisturbing footage of Apache attack helicopters killing people in Afghanistan is being shown to frontline British soldiers in "Kill TV nights" designed to boost morale, a television documentary will reveal.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-soldiers-in-afgha...
Commission on Wartime Contracting
Sat, 09/10/2011 - 11:25 — adminThis is a report by the Commission on Wartime Contracting that was published in August 2011.
Chapter 3 of that report details many of the major problems that were found including fraud and waste.
http://www.wartimecontracting.gov/
9/11 and the $5 Trillion Aftermath
Fri, 09/09/2011 - 11:19 — adminThe human and emotional costs of 9/11 can never be measured. What price does one put on the nearly 3,000 innocent lives lost, or the hundreds of thousands of soldiers, contractors and civilians who died or were maimed during the decade of war triggered by the suicidal assault on the World Trade Center and Pentagon by 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists, who bore nothing more deadly than box cutters?
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2011/09/06/911-and-the-War-on-Ter...
Windfalls of war: Pentagon's no-bid contracts triple in 10 years of war
Tue, 08/30/2011 - 14:28 — adminTaxpayer is the loser when Pentagon doesn't require competition among contractors. "The lack of competition is a scandal," says one expert.
http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/08/29/5989/windfalls-war-pentagons-no-bid...
Pentagon spending: Just how safe are you?
Wed, 08/24/2011 - 22:36 — adminThe killing of Osama bin Laden did not put cuts in national security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did. And mild as those projected cuts might have been, recently minted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was already digging in his heels and decrying the modest potential cost-cutting plans as a "doomsday mechanism" for the military. Pentagon allies on Capitol Hill were similarly raising the alarm as they moved forward with this year's even larger military budget.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/08/2011821115810791585.html
Army says improperly tested $2.5 billion body armor is safe
Fri, 08/19/2011 - 10:17 — admin(Reuters) - Body armor worth $2.5 billion that the Department of Defense's Inspector General found had been improperly tested poses no hazard to troops, according to the Army.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/17/us-army-body-armor-idUSTRE77G6...
The Pentagon's new China war plan
Mon, 08/15/2011 - 11:35 — adminThis summer, despite America’s continuing financial crisis, the Pentagon is effectively considering trading two military quagmires for the possibility of a third. Reducing its commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan as it refocuses on Asia, Washington is not so much withdrawing forces from the Persian Gulf as it is redeploying them for a prospective war with its largest creditor, China.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/08/13/sino_us_stephen_glain?sourc...
Uncovering the Military's Secret Military
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:03 — adminIn “Getting bin Laden,” Nicholas Schmidle’s New Yorker report on the assault on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, here’s the money sentence, according to Noah Shachtman of Wired Magazine’s Danger Room blog: “The Abbottabad raid was not DEVGRU’s maiden venture into Pakistan, either.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175426/tomgram%3A_nick_turse%2C_uncoveri...
Army's faulty computer system hurts operations
Wed, 07/06/2011 - 06:51 — adminThe Army’s $2.7 billion computing system designed to share real-time intelligence with troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq has hurt, rather than helped, efforts to fight insurgents because it doesn’t work properly, several analysts who have used the system say.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/58051.html
Germany to sell tanks to Saudi Arabia
Sun, 07/03/2011 - 09:44 — adminBERLIN — Germany has allowed the sale of 200 Leopard tanks to Saudi Arabia after decades of blocking heavy weapons sales to the kingdom, the Der Spiegel said Saturday.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/02/germany-to-sell-tanks-to-saudi-ara...
Cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting
Wed, 06/29/2011 - 15:39 — adminIn the 10 years since U.S. troops went into Afghanistan to root out the al Qaeda leaders behind the September 11, 2001, attacks, spending on the conflicts totaled $2.3 trillion to $2.7 trillion.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/29/us-usa-war-idUSTRE75S25320110629
Cost of air conditioning for U.S. troops in MidEast more than NASA budget
Mon, 06/27/2011 - 15:23 — adminThe United States spends $20.2 billion annually on air conditioning for troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan — more than NASA's entire budget, NPR reported.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/26/cost-of-air-conditioning-for-u-s-t...
War Resisters Inject Truth into Military Recruitment
Tue, 06/21/2011 - 17:08 — admin"Up until the economic recession began, the military had a hard time finding recruits," says Kimber Heinz, National Organizing Director of the War Resisters League. "But now the military is not only meeting its quota, it’s a de facto jobs program and you have recruiters preying on students who can no longer afford college or find work."
http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/2011summer/2011summer_bader.php
Can We Give Some Power Back to the DoD Oversight Personnel?
Wed, 06/15/2011 - 22:20 — adminThe Department of Defense (DoD) system has put our weapons acquisition in a more-bucks-and-less-bang dilemma.
http://www.truth-out.org/more-bucks-less-bang-part-ii-can-we-give-some-p...
U.S. foresees $46 billion in 2011 military sales
Sun, 06/12/2011 - 17:44 — adminWASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States plans to export $46.1 billion in weapons this year, nearly doubling its 2010 figures, officials said.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/11/u-s-foresees-46-billion-in-2011-mi...
Military spending balloons amid bipartisan calls for cuts
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 06:03 — adminThe House Appropriations Committee has crafted a Pentagon spending measure that would swell military spending at a time when both political parties are clamoring for spending cuts.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/164079-military-spending-balloons-amid...
House panel unveils defense spending bill
Tue, 05/31/2011 - 15:08 — adminWASHINGTON - A House panel on Tuesday unveiled a $649 billion defense spending bill for next year's Pentagon budget that funds the nation's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and wades into the long-running fight over the multibillion-dollar, next generation jet fighter.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/43224412
Is the US Military America's biggest security threat?
Wed, 04/27/2011 - 16:16 — adminThe USA's military is supposed to make the US more secure. But it has become, for many reasons and in many ways, the biggest threat to American security, the American way of life and even America's future. The leaders-- both military and civilian-- have to be considered part of the threat-- part of the problem, part of the system that is endangering America.
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/176814.html
Wartime fraud costing American taxpayers 'tens of billions'
Sun, 03/06/2011 - 15:12 — adminA new report shows the US government’s unprecedented use of contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan has allowed them to commit fraud and then get rehired, over and over, letting them continue profiting from a lack of government oversight.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/304282
Army Overseer Tells of Ouster Over KBR Stir
Wed, 02/16/2011 - 19:16 — adminWASHINGTON — The Army official who managed the Pentagon’s largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than $1 billion in questionable charges to KBR, the Houston-based company that has provided food, housing and other services to American troops.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/washington/17contractor.html?pagewante...
Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo
Mon, 02/07/2011 - 14:00 — adminOn January 29, Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s top spy chief, was anointed vice president by tottering dictator, Hosni Mubarak. By appointing Suleiman, part of a shake-up of the cabinet in an attempt to appease the masses of protesters and retain his own grip on the presidency, Mubarak has once again shown his knack for devilish shrewdness.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201127114827382865....
With 36,000 Troops Set to Deploy in 2011, Is Permanent War on the Horizon?
Fri, 01/28/2011 - 23:53 — adminThe US Government Can't Account For Billions Spent In Afghanistan
Tue, 12/28/2010 - 15:47 — adminOne large part of the problem is that the United States is not demanding accountability for outgoing funds from U.S. companies which have little incentive to fully disclose where the U.S. money is going.
How Our Trillion-Dollar Empire Is the Cause of Our 'Deficit Problem'
Sat, 12/11/2010 - 00:37 — adminWe could make the budget deficit disappear and fully fund Social Security and Medicare without raising taxes, if we only outspend our biggest military rival by threefold.
http://www.alternet.org/economy/149019/how_our_trillion-dollar_empire_is...
Activists Denounce FBI Raids on Anti-war and Solidarity Activists Homes
Sat, 09/25/2010 - 12:34 — adminWe denounce the Federal Bureau of Investigation harassment of anti-war and solidarity activists in several states across the country. The FBI began turning over six houses in Chicago and Minneapolis this morning, Friday, September 24, 2010, at 8:00 am central time. The FBI handed subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury to about a dozen activists in Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan. They also attempted to intimidate activists in California and North Carolina.
Influx of ads for military weapons throwing commuters for loop
Sat, 06/26/2010 - 10:24 — adminIn the market for a shiny new combat ship? If so, you might be interested in the ads appearing in Metro stations around Washington. "The shape of littoral dominance has a familiar look," Lockheed Martin says over a photo of a sleek naval vessel cutting the waves.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/24/AR2010062406207.html
The Wasteful War Machine
Fri, 06/25/2010 - 10:55 — adminHow we throw money away with the military-industrial-congressional complex.
http://www.newdeal20.org/2010/06/24/the-wasteful-war-machine-13230/
Watching the Protesters
Fri, 06/11/2010 - 16:26 — adminHow the military infiltrates and spies on peace activists.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-06-09/news/watching-the-protesters/1
The cost of war passes $1 Trillion
Tue, 06/01/2010 - 13:40 — adminTo date, the total cost of war that has been allocated by Congress is $1.05 trillion, with $747.3 to Iraq and $299 to Afghanistan.
Office of Congressional Ethics report on violations of federal laws: no action taken
Thu, 05/27/2010 - 15:13 — adminThe Committee on Standards of Official Conduct issues a report and states that a member of Congress taking money from a corporation doesn't mean that he/she is being influenced. What's new?
We all know that corporations are not philanthropic organizations. So one may wonder what the donations are for.
$33 billion budget proposal for the war in Afghanistan
Tue, 05/25/2010 - 22:12 — adminThe Senate Appropriations Committee today marked up H.R. 4899, providing emergency supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2010. The Chairmans mark, which is equal to the Presidents request, provides funding for ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, including funding to support the addition of 30,000 military personnel to Afghanistan.
Bush Insider Reveals Guantanamo Deception: Hundreds of Innocents Jailed
Fri, 05/21/2010 - 23:36 — adminColonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, provided shocking new testimony from inside the Bush Administration that hundreds of the men jailed at Guantanamo were innocent, the top people in the Bush Administration knew full well they were innocent, and that information was kept from the public.
Grim Milestone: 1,000 Americans Dead
Fri, 05/21/2010 - 14:47 — adminOn Tuesday, the toll of American dead in Afghanistan passed 1,000, after a suicide bomb in Kabul killed at least five United States service members.
Tim Franzen presented with the Ed Arnold Award
Thu, 04/08/2010 - 13:05 — admin
Photo on the left:
May 27th, 2010, Tim Franzen (center) was presented with the Ed Arnold award at the UUCA in Atlanta by Renee Vorbach (left) and Sven Lovegren (right), both of the UUCA Peace Network.
Tim Franzen is the Peace Building Program Director at the American Friends Service Committee.
Photo on the right:
Ed Arnold was a longtime Atlanta peace activist and member of the UUCA (Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta)
Controversial use of guns-for-hire surges in Afghanistan
Tue, 04/06/2010 - 11:07 — adminKANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The guns-for-hire prowl the Afghanistan highways, heavily armed, sometimes wearing ski-masks and looking like something out of a Road Warrior movie.
Wars sending U.S. into ruin
Sun, 03/28/2010 - 10:51 — adminMilitary and intelligence spending relentlessly increase as unemployment heads over 10% and the economy bleeds red ink. America has become the Sick Man of the Western Hemisphere, an economic cripple like the defunct Ottoman Empire.
Soldiers of Misfortune: Abusive U.S. Military Recruitment and Failure to Protect Child Soldiers
Sun, 03/28/2010 - 10:44 — adminThe United States is shirking its commitment under an international agreement and failing to protect the rights of children under 18.
Army awards lucrative Iraq support contract to KBR
Wed, 03/03/2010 - 09:57 — adminWASHINGTON — Defense giant KBR Inc. was awarded a contract potentially worth $2.8 billion for support work in Iraq as U.S. forces continue to leave the country, military authorities said Tuesday.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hx3jn-1MgXROlML7o_ifsoa8E60gD9E6KEGG0
U.S. Afghan death toll hits 1,000
Wed, 02/24/2010 - 11:29 — adminA website which tracks casualties, www.icasualties.org, said 54 U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan this year, raising the total to 1,000 since the Taliban's fall.
Iraq U.S. And Coalition Casualties
Fri, 02/12/2010 - 22:14 — adminThere have been 4,696 coalition deaths -- 4,379 Americans, two Australians, one Azerbaijani, 179 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Czech, seven Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, five Georgians, one Hungarian, 33 Italians, one Kazakh, three Latvians, 22 Poles, three Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, one South Korean, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the Iraq war as of February 9, 2010, according to a CNN count.
Obama Seeks $192B as War Steps Up in Afghanistan
Mon, 02/01/2010 - 18:21 — adminWASHINGTON (AP) -- PresidentBarack Obama wants $192 billion in war spending for the next year-and-a-half, a hefty sum aimed at escalating the war in Afghanistan amid waning support at home.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/01/us/politics/AP-US-Budget-Wars.html?_r=1
Threads (1984 BBC Documentary/Film)
Sat, 01/30/2010 - 18:46 — adminThreads is a 1984 BBC television docudrama depicting the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom and its aftermath. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, Threads was filmed in late 1983 and early 1984. The premise of Threads was to hypothesize the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom after an exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States escalates to include the UK.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8197B8DEF93FC7D9&search_query=threads&rclk=pti
DOD TRAINING MANUAL: PROTESTS ARE "LOW-LEVEL TERRORISM"
Sat, 01/02/2010 - 12:16 — adminThe Department of Defense is training all of its personnel in its current Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training Course that political protest is "low-level terrorism."
http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.2974
Charlie Wilson’s War is a Fantasy!
Thu, 12/24/2009 - 01:46 — adminAs the first journalists to enter Kabul in 1981 for CBS News following the expulsion of the Western media the previous year, we continue to be amazed at how the American disinformation campaign between Hollywood, Washington and Wall Street built around the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan lives on.
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2009/12/22/charlie-wilson’s-war-is-a-f...
New estimate for Afghan war: $1 million per soldier
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 16:06 — adminSenior administration officials reported to the New York Times today that budget projections for the war in Afghanistan will cost U.S. taxpayers at least $1 million per soldier, per year.
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/estimate-afghan-war-1-million-soldier/
"Call of Duty" First-Day Sales Top 4.7M Copies, $310 Million
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:58 — adminWAR: the entertainment propaganda.
Sack the general; stop the war
Wed, 11/11/2009 - 01:05 — adminThe United States is currently faced with the astonishing spectacle of a uniformed military officer, Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, lobbying publicly for the option he favors on an issue that is in front of President Barack Obama to decide.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09280/1003447-374.stm#ixzz0THbOo9Py
Pentagon officials won’t confirm Bush propaganda program ended
Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:39 — adminThe covert Bush administration program that used retired military analysts to generate favorable wartime news coverage may not have been terminated, Raw Story has found.
http://rawstory.com/2009/10/pentagon-officials-confirm-bush-propaganda-p...
Cold War Remnant: Cancer for Baby Boomers
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 19:21 — adminBetween 1951 and 1962, the Atomic Energy Commission detonated more than 100 nuclear bombs in the atmosphere over its Nevada Test Site, just 65 miles from Las Vegas. The radioactive fallout menaced not only the ranchers and the miners unlucky enough to live in that remote area of southern Nevada, but -- as a new study unveiled Tuesday demonstrated -- untold millions of unsuspecting Americans as well.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/21/cold-war-remnant-cancer-for-baby...
$400 per gallon gas to drive debate over cost of war in Afghanistan
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 10:05 — adminThe Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan.
Government says 85,000 Iraqis killed in 2004-08
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 18:03 — adminOct 14th, 2009 | BAGHDAD -- At least 85,000 Iraqis lost their lives from 2004-2008 in violence, the government said in its first comprehensive official tally released since the war began.
http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/world/2009/10/14/D9BAUJF80_ml_iraq/
Students armed with new anti-recruiter regulations
Wed, 10/07/2009 - 23:48 — adminWhen high school senior Ciarra Boyd recently persuaded her friend to not join the U.S. military, she got something she was not expecting: an irate call from her friend's recruiter.
http://www.indypressny.org/nycma/voices/393/briefs/briefs_2/
INSIDE WASHINGTON: Oversight lacking on war costs
Wed, 10/07/2009 - 14:15 — adminThe stories of bad practices by private contractors have been around for years, and yet nothing seems to improve.
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/oct/07/us-wartime-contractor...
US actually increasing personnel in Iraq: More contractors, fewer troops
Thu, 09/10/2009 - 22:59 — adminIsn't amazing that we need private security to protect our military?
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/us-replacing-iraq-troops-with-private-c...
The Downing Street memo Pt.1
Sat, 08/08/2009 - 11:45 — adminRetired CIA officer Ray McGovern talks with Paul Jay about the paper trail on the Iraq war, as revealed in the British "Downing Street memo" (short video).
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&It...
Is America building a purely military economy?
Mon, 08/03/2009 - 07:51 — adminThe military economy is nearly three times as large, proportionally to the rest of the economy, as it was at the beginning of the Bush administration. And it is the only manufacturing sector showing any growth. Extrapolate that trend, and what do you get?
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/08/is-america-building-a-purely-military-e...
Soldiers in Colorado slayings tell of Iraq horrors
Sun, 07/26/2009 - 21:31 — adminCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Soldiers from an Army unit that had 10 infantrymen accused of murder, attempted murder or manslaughter after returning to civilian life described a breakdown in discipline during their Iraq deployment in which troops murdered civilians, a newspaper reported Sunday.
http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=marionst...
US eyes private guards for bases in Afghanistan
Sun, 07/26/2009 - 01:04 — adminWASHINGTON — U.S. military authorities in Afghanistan may hire a private contractor to provide around-the-clock security at dozens of bases and protect vehicle convoys moving throughout the country.
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/25/3069812-us-eyes-private-guards-...
Obama’s War Signals
Fri, 07/17/2009 - 21:56 — adminThe evidence that Obama is ramping up the US effort to encircle and eventually strike at Iran is building: added deployments to Afghanistan and our increasing intervention in Pakistan can always be attributed to the vagaries of the Af-pak front, but one can’t blame the Iranians from looking at it differently.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/07/16/obamas-war-signals/
Army: Soldiers in slayings faced intense combat
Wed, 07/15/2009 - 21:33 — adminFORT CARSON, Colo. - Soldiers from a Colorado unit accused in nearly a dozen slayings since returning home - including a couple gunned down as they put up a garage sale sign - could be showing a hostility fueled by intense combat in Iraq .
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0709/640593.html
Air Force Project Being Probed Is Linked to Murtha
Wed, 07/15/2009 - 17:36 — adminWhen an Air Force command in north Florida sought new battlefield technologies, Rep. John P. Murtha(D-Pa.) steered millions in federal dollars its way to hire defense contractors.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/14/AR200907...
Army chief says US ready to be in Iraq 10 years
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 20:33 — adminCampaign promises, promises, promises...
Despite what any politician will tell you when they want to be elected, some things will never change. War is one of them.
http://www.kansascity.com/437/story/1217522.html
To cover both wars, Senate passes $91.3B bill
Fri, 05/22/2009 - 11:22 — adminThis is the final amount approved by the Senate, slightly lower than the one passed by the House.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090522/ap_on_go_co/us_congress_war_funding;...
House approves $96.7 billion to fund wars
Fri, 05/15/2009 - 17:14 — adminNo matter which government is in place, some things never change.
And what also didn't change is that this money was most probably taken out of the Medicare and Social Security Trust Funds, as usual.
This is never talked about when discussions about the solvency of these Trust Funds come up.
It's easier to blame the Medicare program than the war spending.
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/14/house-approves-967-billion-to-fun...
Is the Pentagon spying on Americans?
Fri, 05/08/2009 - 16:50 — adminAn NBC investigation on the Pentagon spying on Americans.
http://www.cobbforpeace.org/node/add/story
Military Police Document Reveals Integration with Local Law Enforcement
Fri, 05/08/2009 - 16:36 — adminHow the military has teamed-up with local police to spy on U.S. citizens and, of course, peace groups.
http://www.infowars.com/military-police-document-reveals-integration-wit...
War resisters win support
Tue, 04/28/2009 - 12:34 — adminOn the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, support is growing for war resisters in the United States and Canada in the wake of new deportations and repression.
http://www.workers.org/2009/us/war_resisters_0326/
Ex-Blackwater Workers May Return to Iraq Jobs
Sat, 04/18/2009 - 14:31 — adminBAGHDAD - Late last month Blackwater Worldwide lost its billion-dollar contract to protect American diplomats here, but by next month many if not most of its private security guards will be back on the job in Iraq.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/04/04-2
Lawsuit: Firms sold poison gas ingredients to Iraq
Fri, 04/10/2009 - 02:18 — adminHAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Three companies illegally sold materials to Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s for making chemical weapons that were used to carry out attacks against thousands of Iraqi Kurds and ultimately caused scores of chronic ailments, according to a federal lawsuit.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j9t-bS0xUlGLXdfel9RH6U...
The Economic Cost of the Military Industrial Complex
Thu, 04/09/2009 - 09:54 — adminThe United States spends on its military 5.8 times more than China, 10.2 times more than Russia, and 98.6 times more than Iran.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/90742-the-economic-cost-of-the-military-...
Obama's Military Budget
Thu, 04/09/2009 - 09:46 — adminWhile media plays up program cuts, total defense budget surpasses Bush by $20 B.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&It...
CDC Scientists Find Rocket Fuel Chemical In Infant Formula
Fri, 04/03/2009 - 07:52 — adminThe Military Industrial Complex is affecting us at a very early age.
http://www.ewg.org/report/CDC-Scientists-Find-Rocket-Fuel-Chemical-In-In...
Tackling the Global Military Industrial Complex
Tue, 03/24/2009 - 13:45 — adminAn article by John Feffer in WarTimes addressing the increases in military budgets at the international level and calling for a military spending freeze.
Wars, Endless Wars
Mon, 03/09/2009 - 16:22 — adminThis article in the New-York Times is a quick overview by Bob Herbert of the burden that war is imposing on our country.
Not much indepth, but it is good food for thought for the unconvinced.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/opinion/03herbert.html?_r=1
U.S Military Aid to Israel
Sun, 03/01/2009 - 16:54 — adminThis is an article on endtheoccupation.org detailing the desastrous effect of the money we supply to Israel in military aid.
Desastrous both because of the human cost, but also as a financial burden to us.
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/downloads/military_aid_fact_sheet.pdf
The Escalation of the War in Afghanistan
Sat, 02/28/2009 - 19:19 — adminThe war and occupation of Afghanistan has become a critical part of UFPJ's work.
Here are some facts in UFPJ's website.
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=4019
Youth and Militarism
Sat, 02/28/2009 - 19:06 — adminAmerican Friends Service Committee is part of a campaign of information regarding recruitment of young Americans by the military.
Click on the image below for more information on the campaign.
The Human Cost of the War in Iraq
Sat, 02/28/2009 - 01:09 — adminThis is a page on AntiWar.com that shows the human cost of war in Iraq, not only for the military but also for the civilian contractors and the Iraqi population.
