Published date: 18 December 2020 21:14 UTC | Last update: 3 months 2 weeks ago
Dozens of anti-war, environmental and human rights groups are promoting a 100-candidate roster for senior positions in the incoming US administration of President-elect Joe Biden, as part of an effort to guide US foreign policy in a more progressive direction.
The list, sent to Biden s team on Friday, excluded individuals with corporate ties. It was backed by a range of advocacy organisations, including the Center for International Policy (CIP); Common Defense; the Revolving Door Project; Friends of the Earth US; MoveOn; the National Iranian American Council Action (NIAC); the Arab American Institute, and Win Without War.
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President Donald Trump has sparked considerable controversy by threatening to veto the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act – a behemoth bill authorizing $740 billion in U.S. military expenditures – for the first time in its nearly 60-year history. However, one peace group on Friday warned against making the NDAA all about Trump, reminding Americans of some of the grave consequences of spending more on militarism than the 10 next countries combined.
The US Senate on Friday voted 84-13 in favor of the latest NDAA and sent the bill the desk of the president, who said he might not sign it into law because it does not repeal liability
“Our government should not sell a single bullet to the UAE, much less billions of dollars in deadly military equipment.”
Following the Senate’s failure earlier this week to block President Donald Trump’s $23 billion weapons sale to the United Arab Emirates, President-elect Joe Biden is facing pressure from anti-war organizations and activists to put a stop to the deal upon taking office to prevent further U.S. complicity in the slaughter of civilians in Yemen and Libya.
Announced last month after Trump claimed credit for brokering a “peace deal” between the UAE and Israel, the agreement would send 50 F-35 fighter jets, more than a dozen Reaper drones, and billions of dollars worth of munitions to the UAE part of the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition whose assault on Yemen has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.