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Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Pentagon’s gargantuan $649 billion budget, at a time when other departments are facing draconian cuts. Many representatives used the bill as an [...]

Today the House voted on a slew of amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, a bill authorizing hundreds of billions of dollars for the Pentagon and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan [...]

The Obama administration is in the midst of deciding how many troops with leave Afghanistan starting in July. President Obama has reiterated his pledge to begin withdrawal in July, and recently [...]

It’s hypocrisy at its worst. House Republicans are pushing a budget resolution for 2011 to slash $100 billion for domestic spending while letting the bloated Pentagon budget grow. [...]

The Republican House leadership took a meat cleaver to the continuing resolution that would fund the government through the rest of the 2011 fiscal year (ending October 1st). The Republicans on [...]

In the midst of a struggle to provide health care for millions of Americans and create more jobs, President Obama has just announced that he will freeze non-security domestic spending at $447 [...]

Thanks to your help, we flooded Congress with opposition to the F-22 fighter jet, and both the House and Senate voted to cut wasteful funding for planes even the Pentagon doesn’t want [...]

eAction Report The Military Needs To Tighten It’s Belt March, 2009 The Elephant Sitting on the Economy Budget Priorities and Energy Security More Fuzzy Math? Swords or Ploughshares:  [...]

from Time Magazine – Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009 By Mark Thompson / Washington Last year the Pentagon paid the Raytheon Corp., its fifth largest contractor, a cool $10 billion for its missiles, [...]