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We broke it, You pay? Playing Politics With Iraqi Oil Money
US Senators Want Iraq to Spend Oil Revenue on Reconstruction Higher oil earnings could give the government in Baghdad a budget surplus of up to $50 billion - a windfall that has been noticed by senior... ...
Foreclosures Surge 53 Percent
usatoday.com — The number of homeowners stung by the rout in the U.S. housing market jumped last month as foreclosure filings grew more than 50 percent compared with June a year ago, according to recent... ...
The welfare-warfare state
AntiWar.Com by Justin Raimondo 06/20/08 The Democrats have struck a deal with the White House, essentially giving Bush everything he wanted in terms of more money for his war, and more authority to conduct... ...
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... ...
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... ...
The fourth pillar of the “new” economy: “Spend all you can”
Acton Institute by Jordan Ballor 04/30/08 In early February President Bush signed into law a $150 billion dollar package of tax rebates touted as a ’stimulus’ for the flagging national economy. The purpose... ...
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... ...
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... ...
Military Kin Struggle With Loss and a Windfall
Lisa W. Foderaro, reporting for The New York Times, writes, "For some relatives of service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the money feels, at first, like an affront, as if the government were... ...
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... ...