The president should not have carte blanche under a resolution from 17 years ago
War is a heavy responsibility. But many of America’s foreign conflicts are now started, executed and largely overseen by one man: the president. Congress has ceded...
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Event Speaker: Ben Freeman, Director, Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
5:00 PM
National Indian Gaming Association
224 Second Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
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Helping Yemen Beat COVID-19 Isn’t Just Good Policy, It’s Good Politics
With so much attention in the United States being paid...
Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Tom Udall (D-NM) announce the 2019 American Forces Going Home After Noble Service Act (AFGHAN Service Act):
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee members Rand Paul (R-KY) and Tom Udall (D-NM) introduced the 2019 American Forces...
The content below comes from the newsletter This Week in War Powers News, provided by the Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy.
Listen: Dan McKnight on the Defend the Guard Movement
Turkey and Russia Could Be Headed Towards a Crisis
When Erdogan views the...
A bipartisan coalition has emerged in the Senate to invoke the War Powers Resolution to stop U.S. military participation in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.
Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT)—an independent who caucuses with Democrats—have banded together...
In mid January, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson unveiled the administration’s new policy with concern to Syria. In a widely covered speech at Stanford, Tillerson declared an open-ended commitment of US forces in that country. “Let us be clear,” said Tillerson,...
"$100 Billion in Weapons to the Saudis Buys a World Full of Hurt," writes George D. O'Neill, Jr., founder and chairman of the Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy, in an op-ed published January 4, 2019 in The American Conservative....
A debate featuring author of torture memo and Bruce Fein saw more rationalizing of the executive's massive powers.
WASHINGTON — There’s a lot of talk today about the feebleness of Congress, whether on its inability to pass real spending budgets...
Date and Time:Tuesday, October 23rd at 5:30 pmLocation:National Indian Gaming Association Building224 2nd Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003Topic:The Negative Impact of the Unnecessary War on TerrorismSpeaker:Scott Horton, author of Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan
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