The supercommittee’s failure will trigger automatic cuts in the defence budget and domestic spending. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP US braced for automatic cuts as supercommittee set to admit defeat Republicans and Democrats blame each for other for failure on deal to reduce federal deficit by $1.2tn over 10 years reddit this Ewen MacAskill in Washington [...]
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Supercommittee Co-Chair Patty Murray Accepts Award from Defense Industry As She Mulls Cuts To Pentagon Budget Photo Credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images Why won’t the mainstream media or supercommittee member Patty Murray talk about her award from the defense industry? October 5, 2011 | When Senator John Kyl, a Republican member of the “supercommittee” charged with [...]
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WASHINGTON — Though the withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan will save the nation billions of dollars a year, another cost of war is projected to continue rising for decades to come: caring for the veterans. Philip Scott Andrews/The New York Times When you embark on an immoral, illegal and criminal act like a war [...]
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