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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 [...]

There are 875 million guns in the world, and almost 2 bullets for every person on this planet. Apparently that’s not enough for the NRA and their right wing allies. They are working hard to [...]

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 [...]

 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 [...]

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, [...]

After human rights groups and members of Congress raised concerns about plans to sell $53 million in weapons to the Bahraini government, the Obama administration announced that they are holding [...]

Remember how inspiring it was last spring as oppressive governments toppled like bowling pins? Now it’s fall. The Pentagon has learned nothing. I was disgusted – but not surprised [...]

Despite much rhetoric about supporting democratic uprisings in the Middle East, the US government has been relatively low key in pressuring the government of Bahrain to stop its violent crackdown [...]

  The media and the public are understandably paying a lot of attention to the brutal repression of the rebellion in Libya and the US and allied response. However, while debate rages about [...]

It’s time for bolder international action. Military jets, helicopter gunships, and mercenaries with machine guns are indiscriminately attacking unarmed demonstrators while heads of state just [...]