Article: TOO MUCH OF OUR MONEY GOES TO MILITARY SPENDING.(Opinion)(Letter to the editor)

Article: Ruling the empire
Dollars & Sense;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... see Graph 1). In fact, U.S. military spending represented over one third of the total ... little cost. In 2001, total federal military spending (including interest payments on past military spending and benefits for former military personnel ...

Article: Foreign aid and military spending: military ...
Ploughshares Monitor;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... recovering resources from non-productive military spending and making them available for social ... Northern governments have undertaken military spending reductions within their own jurisdictions ... Interestingly, the pressures to reduce military spending in the South have less to do ...

Article: Military spending: Boon or bane to the economy?
Dollars & Sense;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Eds. Fewer Jobs, Slower Growth: Military Spending Drains the Economy BY DAVID GOLD ... has experienced another cycle in military spending, the third since World War If ... the defense burden (the share of military spending in GDP) has fallen. In the late ...

Article: How military spending influences national economy.
Military Thought;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... state decorations. Analyzing how military spending influences the national economy is ... kinds. On the one hand, excessive military spending can divert resources from some pressing ... being. On the other, reasonable military spending directed primarily at the production ...

Article: FINANCE-ARMS: MILITARY SPENDING PLUNGED IN LAST ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  June 3, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... WASHINGTON, June 3 (IPS) -- Global military spending fell sharply between 1985 and 1995 ... IMF Survey." If the ratio of military spending to GDP had continued at 1985 levels ... percent of GDP to just 3.0 percent. Military spending in these countries in 1995 were ...

Article: How do changes in military spending affect the ...
New England Economic Review;  March 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... move more slowly and regularly. Military spending is one such variable. While many ... 4) Estimates of the impacts of military spending have also tended to be very imprecise ... understanding the contributions of changes in military spending to business cycles is to move outside ...

Article: Exploding the myths: Canada and military spending.
Ploughshares Monitor;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... 1 Further reductions in Canadian military spending will undermine our security in an ... prevention or military solution. Military spending figures strongly suggest that the ... security is declining. Worldwide military spending peaked in 1987 and has been dropping ...