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HKS Senior Lecturer Linda Bilmes, an expert on public finance who has studied post-9/11 war costs for the past 20 years, says their staggering $5 trillion cost was enabled by what she calls “The Ghost Budget.” Using an unprecedented combination of borrowing, accounting tricks, and outsourcing, presidential administrations, Congress, and the Pentagon were able to circumvent traditional military budget processes in a way that kept war costs out of the public debate and resulted in trillions being spent with minimal oversight. The result: corporations and wealthy investors raking in huge profits, massive waste and fraud, and—combined with the Bush and Trump tax cuts—a shifting of the burden of the costs of war away from the wealthy and onto middle- and lower-income people and future generations. Of course by any metric, the United States-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were costly. Human life? At least 430,000 Iraqis, Afghans, and Pakistani civilians dead, along with more than 7,000 U.S. military personnel and thousands of civilian contractors. Democratic progress? Afghanistan is once again an authoritarian theocracy under the Taliban, and instead of transforming Iraq and the region, the U.S. invasion and occupation undermined popular sentiment toward democracy, unleashed sectarian violence, and strengthened autocratic regimes. But the budgetary problems are something we can address now, Bilmes says, with congressional reforms and planning prudently for the long-term costs of the wars, including caring for veterans. “The Ghost Budget” is also the title of Bilmes' next book, which will be published next year.Linda Bilmes' Policy RecommendationsCreate a veterans trust fund with an oversight board to pay for the long-term costs of caring for military personnel who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, costs which will not peak for as much as 50 years.Amend existing laws to automatically cover Iraq and Afghanistan veterans for toxic exposure to burn pits.Pass legislation requiring a set aside of a certain amount of funding long-term veterans care for every dollar appropriated for war spending.Restrict the ability of the White House and Congress to use the emergency and OCO (Overseas Contingency Operations) funding mechanisms to spend money on conflicts and to move war spending back into the main defense budget process.Address budgetary dysfunction in Congress by strengthening and empowering the House and Senate budget committees and streamlining their complicated and confusing budget subcommittee structures. Episode Contributors:Linda J. Bilmes, the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is a leading expert on budgetary and public financial issues. Her research focuses on budgeting and public administration in the public, private and non-profit sectors. She is interested in how resources are allocated, particularly defense budgets, costs of war, veterans, sub-national budgeting and public lands. She is a full-time Harvard faculty member, teaching budgeting, cost accounting and public finance, and teaching workshops for newly-elected Mayors and Members of Congress. Since 2005, she has led the Greater Boston Applied Field Lab, an advanced academic program in which teams of student volunteers assist local communities in public finance and operations. She also leads field projects for the Bloomberg Cities program. She served as the Assistant Secretary and CFO of the U.S. Department of Commerce under President Bill Clinton.  She currently serves as the sole United States member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA), and as Vice-chair of Economists for Peace and Security. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University. She was a member of the National Parks Second Century Commission and served on the U.S. National Parks Service Advisory Board for eight years. She has testified to Congress on numerous occasions and has authored or co-authored numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict” (with Joseph E. Stiglitz)  and “The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service” (with W. Scott Gould). She was also featured in the Academy-award nominated documentary "No End in Sight," and was the recipient of the 2008 Speaking Truth to Power Award from the American Friends Service Committee. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Bilmes earned a BA and an MBA from Harvard University and a PhD from Oxford University.Ralph Ranalli of the HKS Office of Communications and Public Affairs is the host, producer, and editor of HKS PolicyCast. A former journalist, public television producer, and entrepreneur, he holds an AB in Political Science from UCLA and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.Design and graphics support for PolicyCast is provided by Lydia Rosenberg, Delane Meadows and the OCPA Design Team. Social media promotion and support is provided by Natalie Montaner and the OCPA Digital Team. Editorial support is provided by the OCPA Editorial Team: Nora Delaney, Robert O'Neill, and James Smith.

Welcome to the seventh episode of Season Four of the Kurdistan in America podcast. We are honored to have Minister Safeen Muhsin Dizayee, Kurdistan Region's top diplomat and head of the Department of Foreign Relations, as our special guest.With an impressive track record, Minister Dizayee previously served as the Chief of Staff to the former KRG Prime Minister, as well as the Spokesperson and Head of the Department of Media and Information, and the Minister of Education. He also held important positions in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, including as its Representative in Turkey and as its head of foreign relations.In this episode, our focus centers on Minister Dizayee's current visit to Washington, where he shares insights into Washington's policy towards Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, as well as his assessment of the state of affairs between Erbil and Baghdad. Minister Dizayee also discusses the challenges confronting Iraq and the Kurdistan Region and offers his formula for attaining a more stable Iraq and fostering a stronger Kurdistan Region. He also sheds light on the Department of Foreign Relations' future plans.Join us for an engaging conversation exploring diplomacy and governance with Minister Safeen Dizayee.

Many reenacting units count former members of the military amongst their ranks - but how does simulated combat feel for those who have taken part in the real thing, and do vets necessarily make good reenactors? In this episode Chris and Ben meet Alex, a former US Marine who served in the Iraq Conflict, to hear his take on this perennial hot topic. Plus we announce the winner of our Kelly's Military Gift Card Giveaway!

Improving ties between rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia, promote peace and reconciliation in the region, are the aims sought in the Baghdad summit that Iraq tries to assert is playing a “unifying role” to tackle the crises shaking the region. These are the issues discussed with world correspondent Roland Bidjamov in this report.

On June 17, USIP hosted a discussion on the latest findings from USIP's Iraq Conflict and Stabilization Monitoring Framework, which collects data directly from conflict-affected communities across Nineveh province. The conversation shed light on the current reality of Iraq's ethnic and religious minorities, as well as the challenges to their safe and sustainable return, signs of progress and the implications of Iraq's upcoming national elections in October. This event was livestreamed in English and Arabic. Speakers Mike Yaffe, opening remarks  Vice President, Middle East and North Africa, U.S. Institute of Peace  Osama Gharizi Senior Program Advisor, Iraq, U.S. Institute of Peace Negina Sawez  Team Lead, Middle East and North Africa Programs, State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Adad Youssef  Chairman, Board of Directors, Alliance of Iraqi Minorities Sarhang Hamasaeed, moderator Director, Middle East Programs, U.S. Institute of Peace   For more information about this event, please visit: https://www.usip.org/events/iraqi-minorities-views-possibilities-peace-and-stability

في آخر محطة من زيارته التاريخية إلى العراق، ترأس البابا فرنسيس قداساً في أربيل شارك فيه الآلاف وسط إجراءات صحية وأمنية مشددة.

فبعد قرابة العامين توقفت خلالها الهجمات بالأحزمة الناسفة والسيارات المفخخة في العاصمة وباقي المحافظات تلطخت شوارع العراق مجددا بدماء الابرياء من ابنائها في هجوم هو الاكثر دموية في بغداد منذ يناير 2018

Disputes continue between the central government and the region over the region’s share of the financial budget. The employees in Iraq, whether the centre or the region, suffer from not receiving their salaries for months.

Although the new Baghdad government promised not to oppose peaceful demonstrators, but on Sunday night, riot police attacked protesters in the Tahrir Square and the southern provinces, killing two and wounding 17 others.

Christina Obada was only three years old when she was snatched from her mother’s arms after ISIS militants overran northern Iraq in 2014. Her parents never gave up hope of finding her despite the years that had passed. - بالرغم من أزمة كورونا الحالية، وشح الخدمات الاجتماعية المتاحة الآن في ظل قيود التباعد الاجتماعي، الا ان هذه العائلة تشعر بالأمان في أستراليا الآن والامتنان لكل من قدم لهم يد العون.

More than 100 figures of revolutionary movement's representatives in Iraq met to study how to avoid the risks of COVID- 19, and the return of demonstrators to the sit-in areas after the end of the pandemic crisis.

Our correspondent Naseem Sadiq, reports that people on social media are busy with the issue of COVID-19 virus infections that so far reached 142 and led to the death of two and the recovery of others.

The kurds blockage of the formation of new government along with sunni's groups was successful in the miscarriageof the political process. The kurds believe it was influenced by militias and bigger political parties.

Dr. Selim Patros got his degree of Professor in Political Sociology on December 19, 2019 in Ankawa, Arbil. During a meeting with him about reading Iraqi situation, he said that after the fall of the totalitarian dictatorship regime came a sectarian system carrying in its womb the causes of conflict, separation and fragmentation, pushed the Iraqi people to pay a heavy price. Professor Patros added that it is the middle class that plays a big role in societies which influence the change of policies in countries. Unfortunately the absence or almost nonexistence of the middle class in Iraq has made it impossible to build a civil democratic state.

Artist and broadcaster, Faris Danial, participating in the demonstrations in Tahrir Square in the heart of Baghdad, said that the demonstrators will not leave the scene until the dreams of the martyrs who fell in these demonstrations are fulfilled. He added that the revolutionaries insist that they are from the homeland and the homeland from them. He stressed that parties are playing on the issue of time because they believe that time is serving them in putting down the revolution, but he says, that will not succeed.

Naseem Sadiq said that Soleimani’s photos were circulated in the parliament’s room when discussing the decision to remove foreign forces from Iraq, according to the protesters ’opinion, indicating Iraq’s handing over to Iran.

This is a first for WOC! Coaching Expert Mark Bennett returns to expound on his Rule of 3 and teach us how to develop independent, self-aware, and accountable athletes at all levels of the game. Queue this one up and listen on your way to work today!   Other Interviews with Mark – Mark’s First Appearance on Way of Champions: Episode 31: Listen to Episode 31 here Another Great Interview with Mark on Coach Reed’s Coaching Code Podcast: Listen to TCC Episode 17 here Mark’s Conversation with Stu Armstrong:  A Conversation with My Mentor: The Talent Equation   Show Notes 8:55 A quick introduction to what Mark does 19:55 The non-negotiables of a good training session 26:10 Mark Bennett’s Rule of 3 30:25 Working with athletes to define what is acceptable, unacceptable, and excellent 39:40 How can teammates effectively hold each other accountable 53:25 The element of when to step in is critical to athlete success 66:10 What else can these tools do for coaches and players 1:08:40 Getting in Touch with Mark Bennett   Getting in Touch Website: PDSCoaching.com Twitter: @PDSCoach Email: Mark.bennett@pdscoach.com   About Mark Mark has been training, coaching & mentoring individuals and teams since the early 90s. He joined the British Army in 1983. Mark passed the world-famous Commando course in 1990 and while posted with the British Commandos experienced the stresses of operations during the first Iraq Conflict. While serving with 29 Commando Regiment as the senior instructor, running the Commando Training Wing, Mark was the first person to initiate structural change to the way soldiers were trained for the commando course. His work in this field culminated in the design of the Performance Development Systems; a holistic and robust approach to maximize real-world performance for organizations, coaches, and athletes. Following several years of running, designing and quality controlling “train the trainer” courses for the Military, Mark turned down a promotion in order to leave the forces to commit to working on PDS full time. He has spent over 25 years researching and developing effective learning and adherence systems to help coaches and trainers maximize the performance of the individuals and teams they are working with. In 2006 Mark was awarded the Member of the British Empire (MBE) by her Majesty the Queen for his work in developing the system. Mark believes in a “practitioner” based approach. He soon identified that many theories that may look good on paper or in controlled environments are not so effective in the “real world”. PDS is all about providing a positive sustainable performance impact on the “shop floor”.   CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE COURSES: Warriors, Not Winners - Want to create gritty, resilient athletes who succeed beyond the game? Purchase Warriors, Not Winners now!   Transformational Coaching - Take your Coaching to the Next Level with Transformational Coaching. Become a Transformational Coach Today   If you are enjoying our podcast, please help us out and leave a review on iTunes. How to leave an iTunes rating or review for a podcast from your iPhone or iPad  Launch Apple’s Podcast app. Tap the Search tab. Enter the name Way of Champions. Tap the blue Search key at the bottom right. Tap the album art for the Way of Champions podcast. Tap the Reviews tab. Tap Write a Review at the bottom. Thanks so much, every review helps us to spread this message! Hosted by John O'Sullivan. Produced by Coach Reed Maltbie

What can sport coaches learn from a former British Commando? A better way to deliver content, ensure learning has occurred, and empower players to own their learning process. In this episode, Mark explains how coaches can more effectively shape behaviors, which will lead to better learning outcomes. Bio Mark has been training, coaching & mentoring individuals and teams since the early 90s. He joined the British Army in 1983. Mark passed the world famous Commando course in 1990 and while posted with the British Commandos experienced the stresses of operations during the first Iraq Conflict. While serving with 29 Commando Regiment as the senior instructor, running the Commando Training Wing, Mark was the first person to initiate structural change to the way soldiers were trained for the commando course. His work in this field culminated in the design of the Performance Development Systems; a holistic and robust approach to maximize real world performance for organizations, coaches and athletes. Following several years of running, designing and quality controlling “train the trainer” courses for the Military, Mark turned down promotion in order to leave the forces to commit to working on PDS full time. He has spent over 25 years researching and developing effective learning and adherence systems to help coaches and trainers maximize the performance of the individuals and teams they are working with. In 2006 Mark was awarded the Member of the British Empire (MBE) by her Majesty the Queen for his work in developing the system. Mark believes in a “practitioner” based approach. He soon identified that many theories that may look good on paper or in controlled environments are not so effective in the “real world”. PDS is all about providing a positive sustainable performance impact on the “shop floor”. Subscribe to the Way of Champions Podcast on iTunes Show Notes 6:15 His back story 10:45 Performance is a behavior not an outcome 20:30 Coaching isn’t as easy as downloading information like the matrix 22:00 Acceptable, Unacceptable, Exceptional 31:15 A great coach develops self-reliance within the team 34:15 Athlete first, athlete last in communication during training. 44:15 How coaches can “check for learning” 49:00 What is effective communication 55:45 Mark’s definition of excellence     Get in Touch Website: www.pdscoach.com Twitter: @PDScoach Podcast with Stu Armstrong: A Conversation with My Mentor: The Talent Equation If you are enjoying our podcast, please help us out and leave a review on iTunes. How to leave an iTunes rating or review for a podcast from your iPhone or iPad Launch Apple’s Podcast app. Tap the Search tab. Enter the name Way of Champions. Tap the blue Search key at the bottom right. Tap the album art for the Way of Champions podcast. Tap the Reviews tab. Tap Write a Review at the bottom. Thanks so much, every review helps us to spread this message!

Photo by flickr user Brooke Anderson. Given Trump's massive military budget proposal and the 14th Anniversary of the United States war in Iraq, we bring you this program from our archives with the voices of U.S. Soldiers and Iraqis reflecting on the costs of war. Special thanks to KALW News in San Francisco. Photo Credit: Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War present at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA. Featuring: George W. Bush, former U.S. President; Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense; Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State; Yara Badday, Iraqi-American; Paul Bremer, former U.S. Administrator to Iraq; Richard Becker, West Coast Coordinator for ANSWER Coalition; Paul Wolfowitz, former Deputy Secretary of Defense; Ghazwan Al-sharif, Iraqi translator; Ryan Berg, U.S. Marine; Starlyn Lara, U.S. Army; Jordan Towers, U.S. Marine; Barack Obama, U.S. President; Aaron Glantz, journalist. Credits: Host: Anita Johnson and Kyung Jin Lee Staff Producers: Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, R.J. Lozada, Andrew Stelzer, Esther Manilla Executive Director: Lisa Rudman Web Editor & Audience Engagement Manager: Sabine Blaizin Special thanks to KALW News in San Francisco. Featured Music: Blue Dot Sessions: Lesser Gods of Metal. Photo Credits: flickr user Brooke Anderson For More information: KALW News Aaron Glantz, reporter and author of The War Comes Home Answer Coalition Iraq Veterans Against the War Swords to Plowshares Coalition for Iraq + Afghanistan Veterans for Peace Civilian-Soldier Alliance War Resisters League Veteran Artists Articles and Books: Happy anniversary, Iraq War by Matthew Duss, Michael Cohen, Foreign Policy Clamor, by Elise Fenton, Cleveland State University Poetry Center War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons Against War with Iraq ed. Milan Rai, Verso Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations by Iraqi Veterans Against the War & Aaron Glantz, Haymarket Books The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan by Dahr Jamail, Haymarket Books The post The Cost of War: A Reflection on the United States and Iraq Conflict (Encore) appeared first on KPFA.

Given Trump's massive military budget proposal and the 14th Anniversary of the United States war in Iraq, we bring you this program from our archives with the voices of U.S. Soldiers and Iraqis reflecting on the costs of war.

Given Trump's massive military budget proposal and the 14th Anniversary of the United States war in Iraq, we bring you this program from our archives with the voices of U.S. Soldiers and Iraqis reflecting on the costs of war.

In 2005, Roger Bacon's son Matthew was one of the many British service personnel killed whilst serving in Iraq. Jason Clasby worked with Matthew and was sitting next to him when he died. As they told Eddie Mair, despite meeting briefly at the Chilcott inquiry, the two men had never sat down to talk about what happened, until now, ten years after Matthew's death. In the second part of this interview, they discuss how they deal with day to day life. The first part of this interview was posted as a podcast on 2 January 2017. (Photo: British troops patrolling in Basra, Iraq Credit: Getty Images)

Aired 03/07/10 JOSEPH STIGLITZ became a full professor at Yale in 1970 at the age of 27, and in 1979 was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, as the economist under 40 who had made the most significant contribution to the field. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, MIT and Oxford, and is now University Professor at Columbia University, Chair of Columbia's Committee on Global Thought, and co-founder and Executive Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue. Stiglitz was a member and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration, and later Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics and he was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. JOSEPH STIGLITZ is the author of, among other books, Globalization and Its Discontents, Fair Trade for All, Making Globalization Work, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, with Linda Bilmes, and his newest, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy. http://www.josephstiglitz.com/

Over the course of history, Iraq has had many types of conflicts that continue to influence the country today. These conflicts are religious, Sunni-Shia, ethnic, Kurd-Arab, and cultural, related to British imperialism. They should definitely be considered by U.S. policy makers when decisions are made about the of U.S. troops in Iraq. This podcast examines these conflicts as well as a possible future role for U.S. troops in Iraq.

The global financial crisis reflects a failure of global economic governance. The failure of America's regulatory system has not only ramifications for the American economy, but for the global economy. It is clear that the banks' risk management systems could not even protect their own shareholders, let alone the well-being of the global economy. What went wrong? Where did the global financial regulators fail? What can we do to minimize the downturn? And what, if anything, can we do to prevent a recurrence? What are the lessons for global governance in the 21st Century? Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics, "The Economics of Information," exploring the consequences of information asymmetries and pioneering such pivotal concepts as adverse selection and moral hazard, which have now become standard tools not only of theorists, but of policy analysts. His work has helped explain the circumstances in which markets do not work well, and how selective government intervention can improve their performance. Recognized around the world as a leading economic educator, he has written textbooks that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He founded one of the leading economics journals, The Journal of Economic Perspectives. His book, Globalization and Its Discontents, (W.W. Norton June 2001) has been translated into 35 languages and has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Most recently, he has written The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict with Linda J. Bilmes, published by WW Norton in March 2008.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *From Synagogues and Sanctuaries to Bars and Boardrooms: The Apostle Paul at the Areopagus* for Sunday, 27 April 2008; book review: *The Three Trillion Dollar War; The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict* by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes (2008); film review: *Yesterday* (2004, Zulu); poem review: *O Shepherd of Souls* by Hildegard of Bingen.

JOSEPH STIGLITZ is University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. His work has helped explain the circumstances in which markets do not work well, and how selective government intervention can improve their performance. Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. His book, Globalization and Its Discontents, was translated into 35 languages and has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Other books include Fair Trade for All, Making Globalization Work, and his newest (with Linda Bilmes) THE $3 TRILLION WAR. Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. According to the book, Americans will spend decades treating the physical and psychological wounds of Iraq veterans — and when the economic consequences of the invasion are taken into account, the costs are staggering. http://www.josephstiglitz.com