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Unmanned Space Plane Opening Door To Space Weaponization: 04/22/2010

Charles Cooper - CBS News

After a decade of development work, the Air Force is finally ready to launch its secret space plane, the unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle from Cape Canaveral.The craft is expected to spend up to nine months in orbit and will re-enter Earth on autopilot. It will land like an airplane ...


Guns Vs. Butter 2010 : 04/22/2010

Ariana Huffington - Huffington Post

See if you can identify the bleeding heart liberal who said this:


2010 Us Spending Priorities: 58% To Military: 04/21/2010

Rady Ananda - Practical Populism


Air Force To Launch X-37 Space Plane: Precursor To War In Orbit?: 04/20/2010

Gordon Lubold - Christian Science Moniter

lear, sunny skies are forecast for Cape Canaveral Wednesday, perfect weather for the launch of a new unmanned spacecraft and the dawn of an era. Just don't expect the Air Force to tell you what that new era is.


A Demand Grows In Brooklyn: Fund Kids, Not Bombs: 04/18/2010

- Brooklyn Technical High School

Community residents filled the library at Brooklyn Tech High School Tuesday night to hear Jo Comerford, executive director of the National Priorities Project, speak on budget cuts, the federal budget and war spending


Local Budgets And War Spending: A Reflection For Tax Day, April 15: 04/17/2010

H. Patricia Hynes - OpEdNews

From every corner of America urban, suburban and rural the news of shrinking budgets and slashed community services sounds forth like a tragic Greek chorus.


Moyers On The Cost Of War: 04/16/2010

- PBS Bill Moyers Journal

In his closing essay this week Bill Moyers talks about Binghamton, New York's Mayor Matt Ryan and his effort to make manifest the costs of war to his town and its citizens. The mayor has installed a "cost of war" clock that keeps a running tab of how much in ...


Binghamton, Ny Marks Tax Day With City Hall Counter Tallying Cost Of Iraq, Afghan Wars: 04/15/2010

- Democracy Now!

JUAN GONZALEZ: As we continue our Tax Day coverage, we turn now to the cost of war. According to the National Priorities Project, Americans have collectively spent more than a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. That's an average of over $7,000 per person. In ...


Where Your Tax Dollars Went: 04/15/2010

- Chico News & Review

Where your tax dollars went


Taxpayers' Tab: Test Your Tax Iq: 04/15/2010

- ABC News:Politics

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