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Sen. Dorgan’s contracting fraud crusade
The American Prospect by Brian Beutler 05/30/08 In the wake of a recent Defense Department report from the Office of Inspector General that documents the improper accounting of billions of dollars in... ...
US Paying Allies to Fight War
By Subodh Varma - TNN The tale of massive fraud and embezzlement of millions of dollars by the US military in its operations in Iraq continues. Testifying before the US Congress Committee on Oversight... ...
Former anti-terror czar Clarke: Staying in Iraq 'helps Al-Qaeda'
Maintaining US combat troops in Iraq "helps Al-Qaeda" and Washington should pull them from the ravaged country if it wants to see progress in the war on terror, former US anti-terror czar Richard Clarke... ...
Tony Benn: A Million or More Dead
The destruction of Iraq continues; its people killed amidst bombings and atrocities, a million or more dead, many more than two million driven from their homes, the social and economic infrastructure shattered.... ...
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... ...
The Economy: Another Casualty of War
http://www.lewrockwell.com /paul/paul459.html ------ -- What's next for the economy? Tough times in world's seventh largest ecomomy: consumer spending down, unemployment up, municipalities going bust. http://tinyurl.com/ 62bcer From... ...
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... ...