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The Donald Trump administration is providing the Lebanese army with more than $100 million in upgrades to tanks and attack helicopters in the latest US effort to stem the influence of Iran-backed Hezbollah. Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/p

Following the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi lobby’s efforts to gain influence in Washington have been placed under greater scrutiny. However, Saudi Arabia is not the only country cozying up to the Trump Administration and seeking to manipulate U.S. foreign policy...

Here is William Hartung on the DOD industrial report, “Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States.”...

Last week’s 56 to 41 Senate vote to end U.S. support for the brutal Saudi/UAE war in Yemen was historic on several fronts. It marked the first time the Senate used the War Powers Resolution of 1973 to oppose U.S. involvement in an overseas conflict...

In July 2017, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. This post provides our data for the month of November 2018...

A Washington, D.C. based think-tank has released a report showing just how hard Saudi Arabia is trying to influence the American government using lobbyists and PR campaigns. One senator from Missouri made the top 10 list of politicians taking campaign contributions from firms representing the Persian Gulf kingdom...

CAIRO — When a Saudi F-15 warplane takes off from King Khalid air base in southern Saudi Arabia for a bombing run over Yemen, it is not just the plane and the bombs that are American...

Re Bill Hartung’s “The Cost of War” [Dec. 17/24]: We need to cut the Pentagon’s budget by at least half. None of the wars we are fighting have even the smallest concern with “national security.” They are sham wars, wasting the lives and loyalty of our troops, and even more so the lives and security of the people in the countries where we are engaged, who end up losing everything.

William Hartung comes on the show to discuss the latest in Yemen, particularly with respect to the political relationship between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. He explains that the Saudis finally have an opportunity to use all the American weapons they’ve been buying for the last few decades, essentially as a stimulus program for America...

And why they want more...

Saudis rebuke the US Senate after it blamed the Crown Prince for Jamal Khashoggi's death...

Richard Hohlt had served on a White House commission while earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Saudis.