Activists protest US military budget

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Run time: 03:32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWAbyLCojDM   Posted on YouTube: April 12, 2011 By YouTube Member: RTAmerica Views on YouTube: 303   Posted on DU: April 13, 2011 By DU Member: walerosco Views on DU: 450

 
Worldwide, military spending increased by $20.6 billion in 2010--and $19.6 billion of that was the US alone, according to a report just released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The US spent $698 billion in 2010: funding two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, operating 1,000 military bases and sites worldwide and maintaining the Pentagon's 234 golf courses. But although 51 percent of Americans polled favored cutting military spending rather than social programs, the Pentagon is hardly on the fiscal chopping block for either Republicans or Democrats--military spending has increased 81% since 2001.