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AIG used billions from Fed but hasn't said for what
The American International Group is rapidly running through $123 billion in emergency lending provided by the Federal Reserve, raising questions about how a company claiming to be solvent in September... ...
Arms For The Poor
By Jeff Huber Those poor kids at the Pentagon. They receive more funding than the rest of the world's military establishments combined, but it's just not enough. Pentagon officials have prepared a new... ...
Bush Authorizes Record Defense Budget
Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "Last week, Bush signed the 2009 Defense Authorization Act, allowing $611 billion to be spent this fiscal year on defense. Though the number was not a surprise - the money in the... ...
Private Military Contractors Writing the News? The Pentagon's Propaganda at Its Worst
Despite reforms, Congress hides $3.5B in defense earmarks: A Seattle Times investigation released Sunday of the 2008 defense bill has found 155 hidden earmarks worth $3.5 billion. House members broke the... ...
We Have the Money: If Only We Didn't Waste It on the Defense Budget
Chalmers Johnson, TomDispatch.com: "There has been much moaning, air-sucking, and outrage about the $700 billion that the U.S. government is thinking of throwing away on rich New York bankers who have... ...
America and China Joined at the Hip
By DAVE LINDORFF With the government now having spent over $800 billion in less than a year shoring up tottering financial companies that had become little more than casinos (and rigged ones at that),... ...
A Salute to Our Constitution
by Chuck Baldwin On this Constitution Day of 2008, may this generation of Americans live up to its responsibility to valiantly bequeath to our posterity the same legacy of freedom that was so bravely... ...
US Arms Sales Climbing Rapidly
Eric Lipton, The New York Times: "The Bush administration is pushing through a broad array of foreign weapons deals as it seeks to rearm Iraq and Afghanistan, contain North Korea and Iran, and solidify... ...
Pentagon Oversight Takes a Step Forward
Matt Renner, Truthout: "During a sparsely attended Senate hearing Wednesday, three Senators addressed major flaws in the auditing and oversight mechanism of the worlds largest customer - the US Department... ...
Plucky little Georgia? No, the cold war reading won't wash
It is crudely simplistic to cast Russia as the sole villain in the clashes over South Ossetia. The west would be wise to stay out. http://www.guardian. co.uk/commentisfree/2008/a ug/09/georgia.russia1 In... ...