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50% of the 99%

by Laura Carlsen

Honduras Weekly, May-17-2012 | Article

The movement of the 99 percent that began in the United States made visible the human beings who suffer the brutal inequality and injustice of an economic system that, in crisis, required them to sacrifice even more... Read More »

Obama's Biggest Climate Decision of the Year May Be...Palm Oil?

by Glenn Hurowitz

ThinkProgress, May-16-2012 | Article

The Obama administration is poised to make one of the biggest climate policy decisions of its entire administration... Read More »

Posturing on Plutonium

by William D. Hartung

Huffington Post, May-15-2012 | Article

There have been so many bad proposals on defense issues thrown around in the House of Representatives lately it's hard to know where to start... Read More »

More Chicanery in the Cases of the Cuban Five

by Wayne Smith

Radio Cadena Agramonte, Apr-29-2012 | Article

Many Americans seem to believe the now-famous Cuban Five were spies working for Havana against the United States and therefore deserve what they got – years in prison. But that is far from the truth... Read More »

SEC Now a Year Late on Crucial Transparency Rules

by Tom Cardamone

TrustLaw, Apr-18-2012 | Article

Today is the one-year anniversary of the deadline for the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue the final rules for Section 1504 of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act... Read More »

Defense Industry Scare Tactics Won’t Create Jobs

by William D. Hartung, Miriam Pemberton

The Hill, Mar-29-2012 | Article

As indicated by the recent rollout of the House Republican budget strategy, the gloves are off in the battle to define the country’s spending priorities in the run-up to the November elections... Read More »

Romney's Foreign Policy Fantasies: "Breathtaking Weakness?"

by William D. Hartung

Talking Points Memo, Mar-28-2012 | Article

In a blog post at the web site of Foreign Policy magazine, Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney attempts to paint the Obama administration as "soft" on Russia, and on security issues more broadly... Read More »

Republican Plan: Throw Money at the Pentagon

by William D. Hartung

Americas Program, Mar-21-2012 | Article

In the Washington debates about how to reduce the U.S. budget deficit, one agency is trying to get a free ride: the Pentagon. The arms lobby has been running a fear campaign designed to stave off cuts in military spending... Read More »

Defense Reform Can Fuel Economic Revival

by William D. Hartung

The Sacramento Bee, Feb-10-2012 | Article

On Feb. 13 the Obama administration will release the full details of its Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal. Advocates of higher military spending are already spreading cries of alarm... Read More »

"Fantastic" Drone Technology Comes to Rescue on the Border

by Tom Barry

Truth Out, Jan-26-2012 | Article

Candice Miller, the Republican chair of the House Border and Marine Security Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee, is effusive in her praise of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), referring to the drones at a March 15, 2011, hearing on Capitol Hill as "fantastic technology" that have proved "incredibly, incredibly successful in theater." As the new chair of the subcommittee that oversees the air operations of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Miller has become one of the leading Congressional advocates of increased domestic drone deployment... Read More »

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