PRESS ROOM

Ben Freeman explains the ways that lobbies, particularly foreign ones, can influence politicians in Washington by disguising where their money is coming from. Despite safeguards against this type of influence, the money is rampant...

The military-industrial complex exerts influence in mysterious ways, large and small – sometimes very small...

How Middle Eastern powers fund think tanks and buy foreign-policy expertise

The 2016 elections awakened Americans to a startling reality: the country’s political system is ripe for foreign interference...

Unlike Saudi Arabia, which has been strongly rebuked for its murder of Jamal Khashoggi and its strikes against civilians in Yemen, the other major U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has largely escaped criticism. This may be about to change...

The Kings Bay 7 were trying to put an end to the threat of nuclear war. Now they face a quarter-century behind bars...

The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says he’s intent on blocking the State Department from shifting regulation to the Commerce Department for exports of military-style firearms including certain pistols, semi-automatic rifles and related ammunition...

The Saudi coalition, while far from the only cause of violence, has been a leading driver of the mounting civilian casualties...

Ben Freeman on the flow of foreign money into D.C...

The murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has intensified Washington’s debate over the war in Yemen...

The revolving door between public officials and defense contractors has long distorted U.S. foreign policy to serve war profiteers at the expense of the public interest and basic humanitarian norms...

It has been more than nine years since I resigned in protest over the escalation of the Afghan War from my position as a Political Officer with the US State Department in Afghanistan...