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Trump's Space Force to Cost $13 Billion and Air Force Wants 70 New Squadrons, But 'How You Gonna Pay For It?'

What the US-Backed Slaughter of Children in Yemen Looks Like: 'Warning: The Images... Are Extremely Graphic'

Jon Queally, staff writer

The missiles fired on a school bus last month was made in the United States. New video offers just a glimpse of what those bombs did to children when they hit.

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UN Probe Says Repeated Bombing of Yemen Civilians by US-Backed Saudi Coalition Likely Amounts to War Crimes

Jon Queally, staff writer

"Despite the severity of the situation we continue to see a complete disregard...

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Despite Effort by Sen. Chris Murphy, GOP Rejects Call to Curb US Funding for 'Slaughter of Yemeni Kids'

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy on the Senate floor

Republicans objected to Senate's "big chance to slam on the brakes and stop our...

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'Your Bombs Are Killing Victims Here': U.S.-Made Bomb Hit School Bus in Attack That Killed 40 Yemeni Children

'Idiotic' 'Wasteful' 'Ridiculous': Mike Pence Pilloried as He Puts on His Serious Face to Make Case for Trump's Space Force

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi

Egypt Responds to Trump's Lifting of Military Aid Ban by Sentencing 75 Anti-Coup Protesters to Death

Sanders to Trump: Instead of Telling Europe To Buy More Guns Like US, "Why Don't We Join Them in Guaranteeing Health Care to All'

Urging Europe to Mirror America's Wasteful War Budget, Trump Tells NATO Leaders to Double Spending

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'Stop All Military Aid to Israel,' Rights Group Demands Amid Gaza Protests

Trump Officially Unveils Policy to Expand Sale of Killer Drones

Message Is Clear as Trump Plays Weapons Salesman: 'Buy American...Tanks, Drones, Bombs, and Guns!'

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With Vote Looming, Anti-War Groups Call on Nation to Demand Congress End US-Backed Slaughter in Yemen

Thanks to Deals Inked Under Obama, US Extends Lead in Global Arms Trade

Flouting Human Rights, Trump Pushing New 'Buy American... Weapons' Blitz

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Led by U.S. Weapons Makers, Global Arms Sales Soared in 2016: Analysis

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Peace Action

Peace Action: Another Tax Day, Another Win for the Arms Industry

Amnesty International

New Arms Deal Risks Trampling Human Rights

Amnesty International - USA

U.S. Risks Complicity by Selling Arms to Saudi Arabia

RootsAction

More than 20,000 Decry Lopsided MSNBC News Coverage; Huge Airtime for Denouncing Russia, Virtually None for Yemen

Win Without War

Win Without War’s Statement on Today’s Senate Vote on the Sale of Precision-Guided Munitions to Saudi Arabia

CODEPINK

CODEPINK Response to Resolution 42 Vote on Saudi Weapons

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Kevin Martin

U.S. Support for the Bombing of Yemen to Continue, for Now

Valerie Vande Panne

New Report Brings Clarity to U.S. Arms Manufacturing Role in Global Conflicts

Peter Certo

The Iraq War Should Be a Much Bigger Part of McCain’s Legacy Than His ‘Civility’

Alex Emmons

How a One-Word Loophole Will Make It Easier for the US to Sell Weapons to Governments That Kill Civilians

Dan Plesch, Kevin Miletic

An Urgently Needed Disarmament Strategy for NATO

Jodie Evans, Andrew Behar

Who Is Making a Killing on Killing?

Rasha Abdul Rahim

Why Project Maven Is the Litmus Test For Google’s New Principles

Sarah Eckel-Dalrymple, Brienne Kordis

From Wall Street to the Vatican; The Pope’s Chat With Larry Fink

Kathy Kelly

Scourging Yemen

Ben Freeman , William Hartung

Arms and Influence: How the Saudis Took Donald Trump for a Ride

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