On AlterNet: military spending
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "military spending"
Staff, VoteVets.org, June 25, 2009.
Obama has vowed to halt this unnecessary chunk of military spending. Here's how you can do your part.
Daniel Luban, Ali Gharib, IPS News. April 9, 2009.
The new budget proposed by Defense Secretary Gates is higher than any of the Bush budgets that preceded it.
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.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation. November 19, 2008.
Our current military budget is almost equal to all of the rest of the world's defense budgets combined. This is unsustainable.
Joseph Cirincione, Foreign Policy. July 24, 2008.
Bucking the wishes of top Pentagon officials, Bush is pushing one of the largest military buildups in history.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. July 9, 2008.
America's military hawks will have to find a new reason to blow money on weapons we don't need.
Chalmers Johnson, Le Monde diplomatique. April 26, 2008.
60 years of enormous military spending is taking a dramatic toll on the rest of the economy.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. March 11, 2008.
Here's an obvious solution to the health care crisis: why not cut the Pentagon's massive budget to fund health care for all?
Paddy, Brave New Films AlterNet: PEEK. November 13, 2007.
Paddy: The House fell three votes short of winning a veto-proof margin as it sent the measure to Bush.
Frida Berrigan, Tomdispatch.com. January 13, 2007.
The Armed Forces can't adequately equip those already in uniform, but the Pentagon is committing itself to massive corporate contracts for new high-tech weapons systems slated to come on-line decades from now.
Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. December 8, 2006.
The Baker-Hamilton report proposes to "beef up Iraqi military" with billions in new hardware -- the absolute last thing the war-torn country needs.
