On AlterNet: military bases
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Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. July 3, 2009.
We're building new "embassies" that run close to $1 billion and host countries keep jacking the rent for existing bases.
David Vine, Foreign Policy in Focus. March 10, 2009.
Our overseas military bases are pushing the nation deeper into debt and making the United States and the planet less secure.
Mark Engler, In These Times. December 24, 2008.
The U.S. spends as much on the military in a single year as it did in the $700 billion financial bailout. Yet the Pentagon is now calling for more.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. September 17, 2008.
Questions remain about how depleted uranium waste from the first Gulf War was transferred, and whether health risks were posed.
Ann Wright, TruthOut.org. May 15, 2008.
The citizens of Hokkaido join citizens from other parts of the world who are protesting the continuing presence and expansion of the U.S. military.
David Swanson, After Downing Street. May 8, 2007.
The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest U.S. military site in Europe, but the people of Vicenza, and all of Italy, have sworn it will never happen.