The Three Trillion Dollar War

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Economist Linda Bilmes on the True Cost of the US Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

Joseph Stiglitz, and co-author Linda Bilmes of Harvard University say the Bush administration has repeatedly low-balled the cost of the war--and even kept a second set of records hidden from the American public. Full Story »

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Stiglitz and Bilmes provide a most thorough and expansive fact checking on the administration estimate of the cost of the illegal invasions and occupations. The corporate pro-war press has been largely absent from such investigations.

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