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Military Spending

Need Cash? Cut Nukes

Joe Cirincione | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

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Joe Cirincione

By cutting Cold War nuclear weapons, Obama could help save the auto industry, or finance anti-terrorism efforts, or rebuild the Army and Marine Corps crippled by the Iraq War.

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Ten Democrats Who Should Go Away

Ben Cohen | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

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Ben Cohen

The Democrats have in some ways, been worse than the Republicans. As a party, they've stood idly by as the Bush Administration has literally ransacked the country.

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Experts Slam DoD Waste in Book for Obama

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

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John Tepper Marlin

The United States been stuck in a century-old military strategy, spending too much money for too little ability to wage a modern war, and why?

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Obama's Five Routes To Military Success, According To Slate

Slate Magazine | Fred Kaplan | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

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It's a truism that Barack Obama faces the most intractable set of challenges that any president has faced in at least 50 years. But on a few issues in...

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Peggy's Confusion: Some "Political Bullsh*t" About John McCain

Eugene Jarecki | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

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Eugene Jarecki

When it serves him politically to condemn Halliburton's abuses, he takes that view. When he's running for president and seeking to establish his bonafides with the Republican base, a different John McCain emerges.

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Prisoners of War

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Global War on Terror, Real Security, Military Spending, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Crisis, Iraq, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression has sparked a great reckoning. Obama now argues that it represents a "failed philosophy." Yet, the Iraq War, surely the worst foreign policy debacle at least since Vietnam, has had little effect in challenging the "failed philosophy" that an imperial America is the "indispensable nation" needed to police the globe.

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Obama, Biden Storm Into Battleground Virginia

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.29.2008 | Home

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Diane Tucker

"Last week 300 volunteers knocked on 10,000 doors! Even volunteers from Maryland drove down to help us. It was awesome."

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Taiwan Declares Peace on China

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

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Robert Scheer

To the Chinese, irrespective of past allegiances, the prospect of war has come to be viewed as counterproductive, and they now have the confidence to show it.

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Command Responsibility

Ray Kimball | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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Ray Kimball

The current explosion of contract spending in Iraq -- hundreds of billions of dollars, with tens of billions wasted -- has made it clear that this course of action is no longer sustainable.

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Army Official Fired For Refusing To Pay Questionable Contractor

The New York Times | James Risen | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- The Army official who managed the Pentagon's largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying ...

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