World-News

Christopher Hellman, TomDispatch: "What if you went to a restaurant and found it rather pricey? Still, you ordered your meal and, when done, picked up the check only to discover that it was almost twice the menu price. Welcome to the world of the real U.S. national security budget. Normally, in media accounts, you hear about the Pentagon budget and the war-fighting supplementary funds passed by Congress for our conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. That already gets you into a startling price range - close to $700 billion for 2012 - but that's barely more than half of it. If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-real-us-national-security-budget-the-figure-no-one-wants-you-see68127



Foreclosing the Foreclosers, Early-American Style

William Hogeland, new deal 2.0: "O. Max Gardner III, a patrician lawyer in Shelby, North Carolina, has started a movement for resisting home mortgage foreclosures. In what Reuters describes as 'legal jiu jitsu,' Gardner teaches techniques for using a bank's lumbering hugeness to enable people to stay in their homes long after banks want them gone. He's not alone. A foreclosure resistance movement has gained national traction in the past year."

http://www.truth-out.org/foreclosing-foreclosers-early-american-style68136



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