Democracy Now! Friday, February 29, 2008 :: Joseph Stiglitz

Today's Headlines

• Israeli Minister Threatens Gaza “Holocaust”
• Iraqis Protest US Raids
• Funeral Held for Slain Iraqi Journalist
• US Deploys Warships Off Lebanon Coast
• Bush Dismisses Recession Fears, Chides Obama
• In New Record, Dem Candidates Raise Estimated $80M
• Clinton Proposes Military Contractor Ban
• Nader Taps San Fran Attorney, Ex-Mayoral Candidate as VP Running Mate
• Cuba Ratifies Two UN Rights Treaties
• Apparent NATO Strike Kills Eight in Pakistan
• Record 1-in-100 Americans Behind Bars
• Women’s Health Activist Barbara Seaman Dies at 72

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  EXCLUSIVE - 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

  One week after President Bush rejected charges the war in Iraq has hurt the US economy, a new book puts a conservative estimate of the war’s cost at $3 trillion so far. In their first national broadcast interview upon their book’s publication, Nobel laureate and former chief World Bank economist, 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. [includes rush transcript]