top of page

PRESS ROOM

CIP Experts provide unique and informed analysis of key events and issues around the world at a time when progressive foreign policy alternatives are urgently needed. 
Please direct all media inquiries to our Experts directly.
November 23, 2018

Khashoggi murder: Trump ignores US leverage over Riyadh

William Hartung quoted

US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his partnership with Saudi Arabia, calling it an indispensable ally after a journalist's grisly murder, but critics say his position ignores Washington's enormous leverage over Riyadh...

November 22, 2018

How The U.S. Fueled The Saudi War In Yemen

William Hartung quoted

U.S. President Donald Trump has released a statement strongly defending ties with Saudi Arabia amid sharp international condemnation of the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi...

November 22, 2018

Business as usual with the Saudis

William Hartung interviewed

President Trump has been under increasing pressure to cut off US support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. The World's Stephen Snyder, who has been tracking the sale of US weapons to the Saudis, tells Marco what the weapons are and where they are made in the US...

November 22, 2018

Congress vows to impose sanctions, as Trump gives Saudi crown prince a pass

William Hartung quoted

Calling Saudi Arabia “a great ally in our very important fight against Iran,” President Trump declared yesterday that the evidence was insufficient to blame the murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi on the highest levels of the Saudi government...

November 22, 2018

Trump statement sticks with Saudis, hyping economic benefits of alliance

William Hartung quoted

President Donald Trump released a lengthy statement Tuesday justifying the U.S. alliance with Saudi Arabia by focusing on domestic economic benefits and the threat from Iran — and saying he does not know whether Saudi leaders ordered a journalist’s murder...

November 21, 2018

Trump has increased the importance of Saudi arms sales in the US labor market world news

William Hartung quoted

US arms sales to Saudi Arabia are giving Washington a major impact on Riyadh while generating less than 20,000 US jobs a year – less than a twentieth of the job push Donald Trump has claimed...

November 23, 2018

The Khashoggi Crisis: (Re)Shaping U.S. Politics as well as Relations with Saudi Arabia

William Hartung quoted

The killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have gotten more than they bargained for. The killing has sparked multiple battles that are likely in coming months to shape relationships ranging from that between the United States and Saudi Arabia to those between President Donald J. Trump, his Republican party, the U.S. Congress, and the country’s intelligence community...

November 22, 2018

Trump refuses to condemn Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi

William Hartung quoted

Anew report from the Center for International Policy undercuts President Donald Trump's Saudi weapons claims, saying the U.S. deals with Saudi Arabia he touts have produced few actual purchases and will have a marginal effect on U.S. jobs...

November 22, 2018

America’s Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost $5.9 Trillion

by William Hartung

Not to mention 240,000 civilian deaths and 21 million displaced. And yet a congressional commission is urging yet more money for a bloated Pentagon...

November 22, 2018

In unusual statement disputing the CIA and filled with exclamation points, Trump backs Saudi ruler after Khashoggi killing

William Hartung quoted

"Maybe he did and maybe he didn't!" the president said of whether Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knew of the journalist's slaying...

November 21, 2018

Trump inflated importance of Saudi arms sales to US job market, report says

William Hartung quoted

Saudi Arabia needs the US far more than the other way round, report argues amid crisis over murder of Jamal Khashoggi

November 21, 2018

Why the Refugee Caravan Is So Big—and What We Need to Do About It

by Laura Carlsen

Central America just couldn’t take it anymore...

  • 147
    Page 104
CIP White Logo 500 padding.png

Center for International Policy

1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036

(202) 232-3317


JOIN US ON SOCIAL
podcast icon.png
bottom of page