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Nobel Committee Celebrates War As Peace
14 hours ago ago from Stop NATO
Stop NATO December 8, 2009 Nobel Committee Celebrates War As Peace Rick Rozoff On Thursday December 10 U.S. President Barack Obama will receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced his selection for the prize on October 9 of this year, less than nine months after Obama assumed the mantle of the American presidency and less than a month after that announced the doubling of his ...
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23 hours ago ago from Politics in the Zeros
In 2003 Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is over 10 times that figure. So what's behind the ballooning dollar signs? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme's exhaustedly researched book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, breaks down the price tag, from current debts to the unseen costs we'll pay for years to come.
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16 hours ago ago from Daddy King and Me's Blog
What is happening with our money? Is the responsible for huge government spending? Do we know? Do we care? President Obama insists that as the nation confronts record government debt and pressing economic needs at home, it cannot afford a lengthy nation-building in Afghanistan Liberals contend the war has been a big contributor to the nation's budget problems. Not exactly. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been funded by deficit ...
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21 hours ago ago from TaggLines
clipped from www.nytimes.com A Fearful Price By BOB HERBERT The reason it is so easy for the U.S. to declare wars, and to continue fighting year after year after year, is because so few Americans feel the actual pain of those wars. We’ve been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan longer than we fought in World Wars I and II combined. If voters had to choose right now between instituting a draft or exiting Afghanistan and Iraq, the ...
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Today in History - Dec. 9
1 hour, 43 minutes ago ago from FanHouse
-Today is Wednesday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2009. There are 22 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 9, 1854, Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," was published in England. On this date: In 1608, English poet John Milton was born in London. In 1892, "Widowers' Houses," Bernard Shaw's first play, opened at the Royalty Theater in London. In 1909, actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was born in ...
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