PRESS ROOM

Summer is near and Congress has begun to grapple with the Trump administration’s Pentagon budget proposal in earnest. While there are some hopeful signs, much more needs to be done to rein in a department that is slated to receive one of the highest levels of funding since World War II...

Senators from both sides of the aisle said Wednesday they planned to block U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states in a bipartisan rebuke of President Donald Trump, saying they had to act to safeguard Congress's right to review weapons deals...

The United States administers military and police assistance to Honduras, which includes equipment and training, but it also transfers weapons to Honduras through arms sales...

Clearly, the U.S. president and the U.S. Congress are on the same page in trying to boost Netanyahu’s standing...

President Buhari won a closely fought election back in February. But now comes the hard part, as Nigeria’s leader is faced with a daunting to-do list...

The UAE is likely using the strategy of faith-washing to hide its human rights atrocities behind a wall of interfaith public relations...

Trump threatens to impose strict tariffs on Mexico, severely impacting both US and Mexican economies...

In the second segment (starting at 17:50), Eugene and Sean are joined by Laura Carlsen, Director of Americas Program for the Center for International Policy to talk about the myths Donald Trump is peddling around Mexican migration to the US, the response of the Mexican government to proposed US tariffs on goods, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's first 6 months in office, and Mexico's geopolitical role in ongoing conflicts in Venezuela and Cuba...

If the average taxpayer were aware that this amount was being spent in the name of national defense—with much of it wasted, misguided, or simply counterproductive—it might be far harder for the national security state to consume ever-growing sums with minimal public pushback...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cited recent tensions with Iran to justify pushing the sales through without congressional oversight. Critics have rejected that justification, noting mounting scepticism towards the Trump administration's claims of an imminent Iranian threat in the Middle East...

Ever since John Bolton was named national security adviser a year ago, the Trump administration has gone overboard with sanctions and propaganda to provoke the government in Tehran...

...our final annual tally for war, preparations for war, and the impact of war comes to more than $1.25 trillion — more than double the Pentagon’s base budget. If the average taxpayer were aware that this amount was being spent in the name of national defense — with much of it wasted, misguided, or simply counterproductive — it might be far harder for the national security state to consume ever-growing sums with minimal public pushback...