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House Aims at Pentagon "Propaganda" on Iraq War
James Rainey for The Los Angeles Times reports, "The House of Representatives moved Thursday to crack down on a Pentagon program that Democrats say planted false and overly optimistic news stories about... ...
An expanding military budget taxpayers can’t afford
Boston Globe by US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) 05/20/08 During the next few weeks Congress will consider hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending, yet this legislation will receive relatively... ...
Pressure to Cut Costs, Troops Strains "Surge"
Jim Lobe, of Inter Press Service: "Growing impatience in Congress over the enormous costs being racked up by the Iraq war, as well as the Pentagon's belief that it needs more troops in Afghanistan to fight... ...
Blue Dogs Vow to Bite on Iraq Spending Bill
Mike Soraghan, of The Hill: "A small group of fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats is threatening to block the emergency war spending bill over a program for veterans' benefits not offset with tax... ...
Drowning in dollars
CounterPunch by Winslow Wheeler 05/07/08 It is now conventional wisdom to say that the Pentagon budget is higher in “real” dollars[1] than at any point since the end of World War II. The $635 billion... ...
House Democrats Look to Fund War Through 2009
http://www.commondreams.or g/archive/2008/04/28/8568/ -------- House Democrats work on huge Iraq money bill House Democratic leaders are putting together the largest Iraq war spending bill yet, a measure... ...
Democrats May Push $172 Billion for War
Truthout's Maya Schenwar reports, "While America is busy deciding which of the Democratic candidates is most likely to end the war, Congress is debating behind closed doors how much of a priority ending... ...
Live Blogging Petraeus
By David Swanson, http://betrayusreport.com Petreaus and Crocker are back for four hearings over two days. This is the first one. 9:35 This ain't gonna be good: Chairman Carl Levin just opened the hearing... ...
The economic consequences of Iraq run even deeper
The Wages of Peace Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier write for The Nation: "The economic consequences of Iraq run even deeper than the squandered opportunities for vital public investments. Spending... ...
Pentagon Seeks Record Level in 2009 Budget
Thom Shanker, of The New York Times, writes: "As Congress and the public focus on more than $600 billion already approved in supplemental budgets to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for counterterrorism... ...