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Kate Kizer

Kate Kizer is a leading progressive foreign policy columnist and political strategist. Kate currently writes regularly at Responsible Statecraft, Inkstick Media, and the Foreign Exchanges substack. In 2021, Kate was chosen as an International Strategy Forum fellow, and she has been a steering committee member on the Forum on the Arms Trade since 2018.

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Washington Needs to Do Something About UAE Dirty Money

Putin and his cronies still find financial safe haven in the Emirates, which was recently added to a money laundering "gray list."

Kate Kizer ·

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Is Congress Willing to Fix Biden's Failed Yemen Policy?

Democrats have been reluctant to challenge Biden on this issue but the situation is getting worse and time is running out.

Kate Kizer ·

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The US Military Can't Be Trusted to Investigate Civilian Casualties

As the Biden administration appears to be ramping up airstrikes in Syria, Congress needs to do a full review of the American role in the country's decade-long civil war.

Kate Kizer ·

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)

Congress's Work to Prevent War With Iran has Only Just Begun

Congress must go further in this moment and deeply examine the structures and groupthink that has convinced so many in power that war is the only viable tool to address conflict.

Kate Kizer ·

Congress Poised to Move Forward With Bold Agenda on Yemen

Even if Trump vetoes the war powers resolution, passage in both chambers of Congress will continue to signal much-needed pressure to the Saudi-led coalition that a political solution is the only acceptable resolution.

Kate Kizer ·

This week the Senate can impose a reality check on the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia by voting to end the shameful U.S. role in the Saudi and United Arab Emirates (UAE) war in Yemen. (Photo: Bumble Dee via Shutterstock)

Trump Runs PR for the Saudis But Congress Can Shut Him Down

If the bill passes, the Senate could stop the president’s plan for more war in the region in its tracks

Kate Kizer ·

The Lesson the Trump Administration has Failed to Learn about Yemen

Three years of stalemate on the battlefield, mounting civilian casualties, and a blockade on humanitarian assistance for starving Yemeni civilians has finally brought this contradictory policy out into the open.

Eric Eikenberry ·

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