Zach Cartwright - U.S. Uncut
The corporate media’s pundits and the corporate-owned political class love to dismiss Bernie Sanders’ platforms as “free stuff” that can’t realistically be provided at a nationwide scale, all while completely ignoring the vast multitude of corporate entitlements that cost trillions to maintain. It’s time to set the record straight.
Sonali Kolhatkar - Uprising Radio
The grey hairs that have sprouted on President Barack Obama’s head over 7 years could well be attributed to his long-drawn out and caustic battles with Republicans in Congress over his annual federal budget. - See more at: http://uprisingradio.org/home/2016/02/11/obama-faces-his-final-budget-challenge-in-congress/#sthash.SOKgrBOa.dpuf
Miriam Pemberton - Foreign Policy in Focus
The Obama administration's final Pentagon budget calls for quadrupling spending on efforts to counter Russia.
Robert C. Koehler - BuzzFlash at Truthout
Maybe if we declared “war” on poison water, we’d find a way to invest money in its “defeat.”
Paul Tuthill - New England Public Radio
President Obama on Tuesday delivered his final federal budget proposal to Congress. The National Priorities Project called the proposal a “mix of old and new, of long shot proposals and sure bets.”
Ben Norton - Salon
When it comes to prioritizing the military above all else, no one comes close to the U.S.
Jessica Marmor Shaw - Market Watch
In 2015, U.S. spent $6.2 billion to fight ISIS, $35 billion on Afghan conflict
David Sirota and Andrew Perez - International Business Times
Pentagon officials say that U.S. military resources are depleted from years of war.
Robert Reich - Huffington Post
We appear to be moving ever closer toward a world war against the Islamic State. No sane person welcomes war. Yet if we do go to war against ISIS we must keep a watchful eye on 5 things:
- Radio Sputnik
The main goal of the new budget is that it extends the debt ceiling for the US, Lindsay Koshgarian, research director at the nonpartisan National Priorities Project, claimed.
