Your Representative in Congress was one of 27 Members who signed a bipartisan letter to President Obama urging him to maintain his opposition to sending MANPADs to Syrian insurgents. Please call your Representative at (202) 224-3121 and say thank you – and ask them to take another step to limit military escalation. When you reach…
Tomorrow JFP’s Robert Naiman going to deliver petitions to Senator Tammy Baldwin’s office in Milwaukee, urging her to oppose the U.S. transfer of cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia. These anti-personnel weapons are loathed around the world for the extreme risk they pose to civilians – but Saudi Arabia has used them in its war in…
Reps. Ted Lieu [D-CA] and Ted Yoho [R-FL] have introduced legislation in the House (H.J.R. 90) that would restrict U.S. weapons transfers to Saudi Arabia. Just like the companion Murphy-Paul bill in the Senate, it would require the President to certify that Saudi Arabia is limiting civilian casualties in its war in Yemen and cooperating…
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) have introduced legislation to prevent the U.S. from continuing to support Saudi-led military campaigns in places like Yemen where Saudi Arabia’s year-long campaign has led to a devastating humanitarian crisis and a security vacuum that has empowered our terrorist enemies al Qaeda and ISIS. The Murphy-Paul bipartisan legislation will require the President to formally certify…
On February 5, the Huffington Post reported that Democratic Senator Chris Murphy had “called for the U.S. to cease military involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen.” But according to a New York Times report on Feb. 22, what Senator Murphy called for ending doesn’t exist. The Times reported: “Western intervention in Libya, led by…
Following Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shia dissident, its ending of the ceasefire in Yemen, and its attempts to sabotage the Syria peace talks, relations between the US and Saudi Arabia have reached an unprecedented state of crisis. But Washington still hasn’t had a serious public discussion about how to say no to Saudi…
Bahrain International Airport – When I came to Bahrain, it certainly wasn’t with the intention of spending my whole time in the country in the airport. I wanted to see what was going on in the country, not to see what was going on in the airport. But the Bahrain authorities would not let…