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US Is Top Arms Seller to Developing World
Paul Shanker, of The New York Times, reports "the United States maintained its role as the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world in 2006, followed by Russia and Britain, according to a Congressional... ...
Congress Quietly Approves Billions More for Iraq War
The Senate agreed on Thursday to increase the federal debt limit by $850 billion -- from $8.965 trillion to $9.815 trillion -- and then proceeded to approve a stop-gap spending bill that gives the Bush... ...
The New York Times: Runaway (Spending) Train
In an editorial in Friday's New York Times, the newspaper questioned why President Bush needs $190 billion to continue funding the war in Iraq "if, as he says...,[he] is going to start withdrawing troops... ...
Saddam Hussein 'wanted $1bn exile deal'
The revelation is contained in a previously unpublished transcript of talks between President George W Bush and the then Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in February 2003 at the US leader's Texas... ...
Another Iraq war spending showdown looms
Johnson City Press 09/26/07 President Bush and Congress are headed toward another showdown on war spending, this time sparring over nearly $190 billion the Pentagon says is needed to keep combat in Iraq... ...
Earth Calls for Radical Social Change and Spiritual Transformation
The population bomb has burst, the climate and biosphere are in tatters, and tyrannical, militaristic governments rule; yet there remains a path to global ecological sustainability Earth Meanders by... ...
U.S. Senate to vote on Iraq division plan
The US Senate is expected to vote as early as Tuesday on a Bosnia-style plan to subdivide Iraq on ethnic lines, touted by backers as the sole hope of forging a federal state out of sectarian strife. http://snipurl.co m/1r86a... ...
Pope to Make Climate Action a Moral Obligation
Global Warming Meetings Put Focus on US Role Deborah Zabarenko of Reuters reports: "A trio of climate change meetings in the United States this week will focus attention on how Washington can deliver... ...
Bush to ask 195 billion to fund Iraq, Afgan wars
If President George W. Bush's spending request is approved, 2008 will be the most expensive year of the Iraq war. http://snipurl.com/1 r6s7 From Information Clearing House ...
The discussion that isn’t happening
Slate by Fred Kaplan 09/21/07 The Senate is debating the defense bill now, and the central fact about the proceedings is that nobody’s talking about money. Certainly this is strange. The military budget... ...