Budget cutting is all the rage; a recent attempt to let the Bush-era tax cuts expire was defeated by Obama’s deal with the Republican congressional leadership. (See our reaction to that regrettable deal here and here.) In this time of (unnecessary) revenue shortfalls...
National Priorities Project
Who in America Remembers Afghanistan?
How will we ever see the end of a war that everyone seems to have forgotten—everyone except the families and friends of the wounded and the dead? “We are not dealing with a conventional war. We cannot respond in a conventional manner. I do not want to see this spiral...
Tax Day: How Much Have You Paid for the War?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTPKxjgw5N4&feature=player_embedded Most likely you’ve paid $7,334 of the $1.05 trillion that has gone to the Afghan and Iraq wars since 2001. Here is Tom Englehardt’s compelling introduction at TomDispatch.com to a piece (below the...