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January 24, 2019
Mexico: Tlahuelilpan Pipeline Explosion
Laura Carlsen interviewed
The death toll from an oil pipeline explosion last Friday near the town of Tlahuelilpan, Mexico has reached 96, according to government figures. To discuss last week’s events, and what many are calling in Mexico an “illegal tapping” epidemic is Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas Program for the Center for International Policy based in Mexico City...
January 19, 2019
Weapons In Space: Potential Gift To Contractors, Definite Danger To Security
By William Hartung
The Pentagon’s new Missile Defense Review has been rightly criticized for being dangerous, unworkable, and unaffordable. Or, as Newsweek’s headline on the topic put it, “Trump’s Space Missile Plan Is Too Expensive and Will Not Work, Just Like His Border Wall...”
January 22, 2019
Foreign Money Flowing into Washington Keeps U.S. in Prolonged Wars
Presented by Ben Freeman
Foreign money flowing into Washington is keeping the United States in prolonged wars, and most Americans are not even aware of it, according to Dr. Ben Freeman, director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy...
January 18, 2019
Confidence in Government on National Security Matters: December 2018
Co-authored by Ben Freeman
In July 2017, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. This post provides our data for the month of December 2018...
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