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The Biden-Harris administration should enact the following urgent reforms to ensure that U.S. arms do not continue to fuel human rights violations, civilian harm, corruption, and criminal violence.

It will ultimately be up to the Biden administration to reverse the Trump administration’s last-minute arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a move the president-elect may be inclined to make given his statement that his administration will not “check its values at the door” with respect to arms sales to Saudi Arabia and its role in the Yemen war. Doing so would not only save lives in Yemen but also signal to friends and foes alike that the United States will no longer look the other way as American arms are used to empower autocrats or kill civilians.

President-elect Joe Biden has made his last major selection in naming former deputy secretary of state William Burns to be CIA director. This is a sterling choice that should receive unanimous support from the U.S. Senate.

President-elect Joe Biden, too, has made his last major selection in naming former deputy secretary of state William Burns, a veteran diplomat, to be CIA director. But this is a sterling choice that should receive unanimous support from the U.S. Senate.

Bill Hartung, of the Center for International Policy, speculated that Biden could tinker with elements of the UAE deal or reverse it entirely, or even go so far as to suspend and review all of Trump’s recent 11th-hour sales. He could also opt to do nothing and focus his attention at the country’s more pressing problems.

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With Joe Biden about to take the helm as post-9/11 "war president" 4.0, there are efforts afoot to drum up alarm – and perhaps foster new adventures – about ISIS’s alleged resoluteness, rebirth, and/or rise in Africa. There’s just one problem: actual Africans don’t much figure in these analyses. Attack numbers and statistics? Sure. But conflict contexts, local grievances and catalyzers, the counter-productivity of past Western military interventions, or the tainted and dubiously legitimate regimes they usually back? Not so much.

“Selling more bombs to Saudi Arabia given its history of indiscriminate air strikes that have killed thousands of civilians in Yemen should be a non-starter,” veteran arms-sales watcher (and occasional Grinch) William Hartung said.

President-elect Joe Biden has made his last major selection in naming former deputy secretary of state William Burns to be CIA director. This is a sterling choice that should receive unanimous support from the U.S. Senate.

Bill Hartung, of the Center for International Policy, speculated that Biden could tinker with elements of the UAE deal or reverse it entirely, or even go so far as to suspend and review all of Trump’s recent 11th-hour sales. He could also opt to do nothing and focus his attention at the country’s more pressing problems.

It is perhaps also an illustrative diagnosis of a broken system, rigged long before the latest indecency that’s been the Trump phenomenon – and which status quo Joe neither can, nor means, to overhaul.

“The Marc Steiner Show” is back for 2021, and we’ve sure got a lot to discuss. In this episode, Marc is joined by Kali Holloway, anti-racist activist and columnist for The Nation, and Danny Sjursen, writer, war veteran, and director of the Eisenhower Media Network, to discuss the past four years of Trump, the violent rise of the right, the Georgia Senate elections, and what comes next.