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Our William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy is described as part of an "impressive diplomatic team" and quoted on his analysis of ICBMs: “Because of their extreme vulnerability to attack, ICBMs are kept on high alert status, leaving the president a matter of minutes to decide whether to launch them on warning of an impending attack."

US aid fuels the Israeli military. Could it also become a point of leverage for peace? Our CEO, Salih Booker, and Director of Arms & Security, William Hartung, explores this question in their new article for The Nation.

Our William Hartung recently testified at the Senate Budget Committee, discussing the issue of financial waste at the Pentagon. Read his ideas to reduce unnecessary spending at the Pentagon in his new Forbes article.

CIP is proud to stand with 60 other anti-war organizations and activists to resist the messaging of Endless Frontier, which contains damaging anti-China rhetoric. Read the Politico article here, which also contains the letter we signed onto.

Despite increasingly right-wing Israeli intransigence, and American apathy or antagonism, the Palestinian people – not their divided and corrupt Fatah or Hamas "leaders" – refused to be silenced. Few Western commentators counted on that. They should have.

We need to get beyond misleading statistical games to the real question of what is most needed to protect human beings now and in the future. Throwing more money at the Pentagon is not the answer.

This article from The Hill on increasing scrutiny about US security assistance to Israel uses CIP SAM data: "Since 2001, Israel has received $63 billion in U.S. security assistance, most of which was foreign military financing, according to the Center for International Policy’s Security Assistance Monitor."

“This political activism has been building for decades. It’s hard to point to exactly what grain of sand has now been added to this side of the scales, but I think we’re approaching a new tipping point where the entire debate is being reframed.” CIP President Salih Booker expresses his optimism in this article in The Guardian.

CIP President Salih Booker writes about the troubling lack of transparency in US security assistance to Israel and how this conflicts with our professed diplomatic goals.

It is long past time to end the mythology that the United States and Israel share common values, which has allowed U.S. administrations to ignore Israeli war crimes.

What was once thought as an immovable object — America’s steadfast support of Israel — is being moved by the unstoppable force that is the Palestinian resistance.

The right to marry is no recognition that aggression or discrimination toward LGBTQ individuals is unlawful or unamerican. This legalization of same-sex marriage is no victory over hate and health disparities, but rather a simple justice granted to a crying and hurting community. It is time for greater reparations and a seal of acknowledgment for generations of aching inequality.