Unified Security Budget

Increase Security and Decrease the Deficit with a Unified Security Budget

Don Kraus | Posted 09.07.2011

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Don Kraus

Military spending is not and has never been the only way to maintain and increase our national security. Diplomacy, development and prevention lead to more stabilization than does purchasing unnecessary weapons.

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Question for Robert Gibbs: Where's Our Money?

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Feffer

The money we need to create jobs at home is going to fund a war in Afghanistan where just as many U.S. soldiers have now died under Obama as under Bush.

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If Norton Wants to Talk Military Strategy, Ask Her About Defense Cuts

Jason Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Larry Korb, Unified Security Budget, Robert Gates, Defense Budget, Jane Norton, Denver News
Jason Salzman

Even with U.S. wars raging in Iraq and Afghanistan, I was surprised U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton dropped the old Democrats-are-weak-on-defense bomb into the Colorado Senate campaign.

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Promises Unkept: Obama Administration and a Unified Security Budget

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Homeland Security, National Security, Foreign Policy in Focus, Institute for Policy Studies, Obama Administration, Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Unified Security Budget, Politics News
Tamar Abrams

While the president has made some strides toward curbing waste, fraud and abuse in Pentagon contracting, he has yet to change the crucial balance between military and non-military security spending.

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F-22 Vote Worries Arms Investors

William Hartung | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Institute for Policy Studies, Unified Security Budget, US Military, F-22s, Foreign Policy in Focus, US Military Spending F22s, US Military Spending, Politics News
William Hartung

Even with the president and the secretary of defense on the right side, it took what President Eisenhower called "an alert and knowledgeable citizenry" to put the anti-F-22 effort over the top.

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