1. Grading Democracy on a Curve
(Newsletter)

...e U.N., and who was ominously claiming the right of his country to own nuclear weapons. CONTINUE... The U.S. Federal Budget Pipeline Political Views By MWC NEWS    Wednesday, 24 June...

2. Reviewing Project Censored's Latest Top 25 Censored Stories
(Opinions/Features)

...mportant (but suppressed in the US media), -- the military character of the US payments deficit and the domestic federal budget deficit."The net result is that the global dollar glut finances US...

3. The Continued Fleecing Of America
(Opinions/Politic)

...iders that these same individuals, of whom many are U.S. Congressmen, annually allocate fifty-four percent of the federal budget to military related endeavors. Simultaneously, they are mandated to han...

4. A New Stimulus? Washington Never Learns
(Opinions/op-ed)

... money that it hasn’t first lifted one way or another out of the private sector. It creates nothing of value. The federal budget is deep in the red, so to increase spending the Treasury has to borrow ...

5. Michael Hudson's 'Super Imperialism'
(Opinions/Review)

...t suppressed in the US media)," -- "the military character of the US payments deficit and the domestic federal budget deficit." In other words, the global "dollar glut" finan...

6. The U.S. Federal Budget Pipeline
(Opinions/Politic)

...2008 in the amount of $8.5 trillion, which  represents 60% of the GDP [5] and the $1,449 billion, 54% of the federal budget, allocated for military  expenditures in 2009. (This is in contras...

7. Erasing Red Ink
(Opinions/Politic)

...n health, education, and energy. The $787 billion stimulus package plus all of this extra spending will bring the federal budget to $3.6 trillion in 2010. The problem is that with the economic stagnat...

8. Full text of Obama's speech
(Editor/Daily)

...it in half by the end of my first term in office. My administration has also begun to go line by line through the federal budget in order to eliminate wasteful and ineffective programmes. As you can i...

9. Guns and Butter (Again)
(Opinions/op-ed)

...fool the country out of its economic collapse. So we are staring trillion dollar budget deficits in the face. The federal budget is $3.1 trillion dollars a year but two-thirds of that is on autopilot—...

10. Pentagon Payouts For Death and Disability
(Opinions/op-ed)

...st, the authors write this figure ignores the "social" costs of Iraq, costs that aren't captured in the Federal budget but "nevertheless represent a real burden on society." Stigli...