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August 22, 2013
By Jana Persky
POGO's Transparency Efforts Taking It to Ghana
Through the years, our work has taken us to Europe, Asia and South America. Next week, we’ll add Africa to the list when Project On Government Oversight investigator Mia Steinle travels to Ghana thanks to a Ford Foundation grant.
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Topics: Energy and Natural Resources
August 12, 2013
What the Pentagon Looks Like Under Sequestration Cuts
POGO's Winslow Wheeler went on C-SPAN to talk about how the planned defense budget cuts have changed the Pentagon and what improvements need to happen in the future.
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Topics: National Security
August 9, 2013
By Jana Persky
Freeland Says Globalization, Technology and Global Politics Driving Growth of the Super Rich
In Plutocrats: The Rise of the Global Super-Rich, Chrystia Freeland describes how wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a historically tiny number individuals, who live a lifestyle many people can barely imagine.
Topics: Financial Sector
August 8, 2013
By Jana Persky
Ghattas: U.S. Foreign Policy Must Adapt to the 21st Century, Rising Superpowers
During her term as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton traveled nearly a million miles to more than 100 different countries. And BBC Correspondent Kim Ghattas was right there with her.
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Topics: National Security
August 5, 2013
By Jana Persky
Goodman: America's Bloated Military Spending Hurts U.S. Mission
In his sixth book on international security issues, National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism, Melvin Goodman breaks down America’s military and intelligence failures stretching back to the Eisenhower administration.
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Topics: National Security
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POGO's Scott Amey talks about the growing private intelligence industry that includes major federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, the former employer of Edward Snowden. Podcast with Joe Newman, Aimee Thomson, Jana Persky and Andre Francisco.
