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Posted On: Feb 18, 2010
This ongoing analysis by Taxpayers for Common Sense takes apart the FY2011 budget request agency by agency, summarizing reductions, terminations and increases in issue areas including defense, energy and transportation.
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Posted On: Jan 11, 2010
Monthly newsletter focusing on NATO policy-making and operational activities. The clips are drawn from a wide range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts covering a substantial part of the major English language newspapers and other periodicals worldwide
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Posted On: Jan 07, 2010
 Overspent and OverextendedWritten by Doug Bandow, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. Why is Washington spending so much on the military?The U.S. dominates the globe militarily. America's reach exceeds that of the Roman and British Empires at their respective heights. The threats facing the U.S. pale compared to its capabilities. So why is Washington spending so much on the military?The military budget is the price we pay for the nation's foreign policy. The U.S. currently is spending ne...
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Posted On: Jan 07, 2010
Posted by Daniel J. MitchellEven though I’ve been in Washington for almost 25 years, I still get shocked by the deceit and double-talk that characterizes this town. A perfect example can be found in today’s Wall Street Journal, which features a column by Karl Rove attacking President Obama for fiscal incontinence. I’m a big fan of condemning Obama’s big-government schemes, but Rove is the last person in the world who should be complaining about too much wasteful spending. After all, h...
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Posted On: Jan 06, 2010
DATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2009 MR. LYNN: Thanks very much, Nancy. Nancy had a way of working with Senator Kennedy. As you know, he had an unforgettable speaking style. Face reddened and fist pounding-that Boston Brahmin accent. You might think that all came naturally, and usually it did. But occasionally, on one topic or another, he might lag a bit. And Nancy would anticipate that. You have to remember, on the Senate floor, there's nobody there, so there's no excitement. So...
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) is seeking to appoint an Edward Rawson Government Relations Fellow to work out of its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Citizens for Global Solutions embraces a vision of a world in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation alone can solve. To this end, Citizens for Global Solutions educates Americans about our global interdependence, communicates global concerns to...
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Posted On: Nov 23, 2009
The Obama administration promised "a sweeping shift of priorities and resources in the national security arena." The sixth yearly Report of the Task Force on a Unified Security Budget for the United States, FY 2010 finds that this promise hasn't yet been kept. The needle tracking the overall balance of spending on offense, defense, and prevention stayed stubbornly in place. In the FY 2010 request, like the one before it, 87% of the nation's security resources were allocated to the tools of mi...
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Posted On: Oct 07, 2009
The U.S. sustainability standard currently requires ethanol production to emit at least 20% less CO2 than the gasoline it is assumed to replace. In a new study, authors Harry de Gorter and David R. Just argue that sustainability standards for ethanol are, by definition, illogical and ineffective. Moreover, say de Gorter and Just, those standards divert attention from the contradictions and inefficiencies of ethanol import tariffs, tax credits, mandates, and subsidies, all of which exist wheth...
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Posted On: Oct 01, 2009
The National Priority Project's comprehensive "Security Spending Primer: Getting Smart About The Pentagon Budget" is now available online.
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Posted On: Sep 09, 2009
The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and the Council for a Livable World are dedicated to enhancing international peace and security and protecting the American people from the threat of weapons of mass destruction. They seek to accomplish this mission by reducing and eventually eliminating nuclear weapons as a tool of U.S. national security policy, halting the spread of all weapons of mass destruction, ending deployment of national missile defense and redirecting Pentagon spend...
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Posted On: Aug 12, 2009
Existing East Asian defense commitments were established at a time when America's allies (in reality, security clients) were poor nations that would have been hard-pressed to defend themselves against any capable adversary and at a time when that region appeared to be a crucial theater in the overall struggle against international communism. That context has changed beyond recognition in the 21st century. In the East Asian Security Commitments chapter of the Cato Handbook for Policymakers, Te...
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Posted On: Aug 04, 2009
Contact: Michael Stulman, michael.stulman@africaaction.org; 202-546-7961"This letter, endorsed by 18 organizations and 15 independent analyst, urge a new U.S. engagement with Africa. The letter takes much of the rhetoric of President's Obama's Ghana speech and couples it with specific policy prescriptions targeting the U.S. State Department upon the beginning of Secretary Clinton's trip to Africa (August 5-14)..."Source:
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Posted On: Jul 31, 2009
 One of the frequent tropes of recent years is the notion that the United States is in decline, and America is plunging from being the only great power in the system to a status merely as first among equals. A veritable slew of books have come out in recent years making this argument. You also get this rhetoric when folks are arguing that we need more F-22s than we actually do, or for various other military-industrial-congressional boondoggles that the MIC complex and its supporters donâ...
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Posted On: Jul 08, 2009
This report from the Partnership for Global Security compiles WMD security program funding requests from all deparments and analyzes the potential impact of the seven percent decrease. The report finds that if the administration maintains its current request levels, it will be extremely difficult to reach its nonproliferation goals.
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Posted On: Jul 08, 2009
The Peace Economy Project has drafted a statement to be hand-delivered to members of Congress, calling on them to support Defense Secretary Gates' proposed changes to "the way we acquire military equipment" and, in the spirit of these recommended changes, to further scrutinize the defense budget to identify and eliminate other unnecessary or excessive programs. To read and sign on to this statement, please visit their website.Â
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Posted On: May 26, 2009
The National Security Network is hiring a policy director/deputy director. This individual will lead a team of four, serve as senior strategist/writer/editor, and be one of the public faces of a progressive non-profit on the cutting edge of defining, messaging, promoting and defending better national security policies. S/he will be comfortable working across the breadth of national security subject matter and ideally have a specialization in which s/he is known. S/he will interact succe...
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Posted On: May 14, 2009
 U.S. defense commitments with Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines were established at a time when America's allies (in reality, security clients) were poor nations that would have been hard-pressed to defend themselves against any capable adversary. Moreover, the United States undertook defense obligations in East Asia at a time when that region appeared to be a crucial theater in the overall struggle against international communism. In the "East Asian Security Commitments" chapter of t...
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Posted On: May 05, 2009
The Connect U.S. Fund is seeking a leader committed to our vision of responsible U.S. global engagement and the belief that the whole of NGO advocacy in support of this goal must be greater than the sum of its parts. The Connect U.S. Fund is a foundation/NGO initiative that promotes responsible U.S. global engagement in an increasingly interdependent world through grantmaking and operations that advance critical foreign policy objectives and support an effective, collaborative community of in...
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Posted On: Apr 27, 2009
It is difficult to evaluate an administration after only 100 days. George W. Bush, who ended his two terms with one of the lowest grades of any U.S. president, received quite positive evaluations after his first three months in office. The Obama team is still bringing people on board and identifying its priorities. Still, the crises facing the United States and the world require immediate and comprehensive action. And, as no less an authority as Aristotle once put it, well begun is half done....
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Posted On: Apr 27, 2009
This presentation was given at a meeting held on April 14 with 17 organizations to discuss messaging strategy on national security budgeting issues. The meeting report is available by contacting Heather Hamilton, hbhamilton@connectusfund.org.
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