Welcoming our newest nation
Image courtesy of The Guardian. On July 9th, South Sudan became the world’s newest nation after a referendum vote in favor of independence in January. As someone whose early activism and research...
View ArticleU.S. weapons sales to dictators?
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want the U.S. selling arms to countries that turn around and use those arms against their own people. Despite the wakeup call of the Arab Spring, the Pentagon is...
View ArticleAdministration sneaks in arms sale to Bahrain
In response to push back from human rights groups and members of Congress, the Obama administration held off on an arms sale to the Bahraini government, pending an independent report on the crackdown...
View ArticleRepression: made in America
It’s painfully obvious. If a government is imprisoning, torturing, and killing protesters, American weapons should never reach their hands. Then why is the administration doing a runaround on Congress...
View ArticleWhat’s going on with the Arms Trade Treaty?
With one person dying every minute from gun violence around the globe, the United Nations negotiations currently underway for an Arms Trade Treaty are urgently needed. As it stands, there are tighter...
View Article26 organizations tell US to stop arming human rights abusers
The Arab Spring brought the United States’ long history of selling weapons to human rights abusers into stark relief. Protesters in Egypt pointed out tear gas canisters bearing “made in the USA.” The...
View ArticleStop NRA lies on “UN Gun Grab”
Several times last week, as I went from Senate office to Senate office on Capitol Hill, another group had beat me to the punch: The National Rifle Association. The NRA isn’t content to just quash...
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