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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Paul Keary, COO of Teneo Holdings attends the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Gala at Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

U.S. Consulting Firm Teneo Whitewashing Saudi Human Rights Record, Misleading Public, Contributing to Abuses

November 13, 2024

Teneo's Propaganda Campaign and Subpoena Evasion: Shielding Saudi Arabia From Accountability

November 13, 2024

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP)

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Making Sense of a U.S.-Saudi Security Pact

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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Paul Keary, COO of Teneo Holdings attends the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Gala at Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

U.S. Consulting Firm Teneo Whitewashing Saudi Human Rights Record, Misleading Public, Contributing to Abuses

November 13, 2024

Teneo's Propaganda Campaign and Subpoena Evasion: Shielding Saudi Arabia From Accountability

November 13, 2024

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Making Sense of a U.S.-Saudi Security Pact

November 8, 2024

A billboard bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Syrians Still Want to Be Rid of Assad and His Foreign Backers

December 2, 2024

Democracy In Exile

Who's Afraid of Political Cartoons?

November 25, 2024

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Pro-Palestine demonstrators gather at Freedom Plaza for a rally on January 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. Officials are predicting at least 10,000 people will attend to protest the retaliatory actions taken by the Israeli government following the October 7th terrorist attacks by Hamas. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

On Yahia Lababidi's 'Palestine Wail' and the Poetry of Free Expression

November 22, 2024

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A billboard bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Syrians Still Want to Be Rid of Assad and His Foreign Backers

December 2, 2024

TOPSHOT - A fireball erupts from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the area of Tayouneh in Beirut's southern suburbs on November 25, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. Israel conducted strikes against Hezbollah's Beirut stronghold on November 25 and battles raged in Lebanon's south after the Iran-backed militant group claimed 50 attacks on Israeli targets the day before. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S.: Following Lebanon ceasefire, investigate Israeli use of U.S. weapons to commit war crimes in Lebanon

November 27, 2024

WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES - JUNE 08: Demonstrators, wearing red clothes, hold banners and chant slogans in front of the White House as some of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators, gathered in front of the White House and called on the Joe Biden administration to 'red line', set up many tents in the area between the White House and the Washington Monument in the evening in Washington D.C, United States on June 08, 2024. (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

After Election, DAWN Reaffirms Commitment to Reforming U.S. Foreign Policy and Holding Abusive Regimes Accountable

November 26, 2024

Tag: military aid

A man walks past an unexploded tail section of a 300mm rocket which appear to contained cluster bombs launched from a BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher embedded in the ground after shelling in Lysychansk, Lugansk region on April 11, 2022. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP)

Groups Urge U.S. Not to Transfer Indiscriminate Cluster Munition to Ukraine

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: Former US Congresswoman is Now Lobbyist Pushing Weapons Sales to UAE Dictatorship

MIAMI, FL - JANUARY 30: Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) speaks to the media as she criticizes President Donald Trump's new executive order barring US entry for natives of seven Muslim-majority countries as she makes her way to her Washington, DC flight at Miami International Airport on January 30, 2017 in Miami, Florida. Ros-Lehtinen said among other things that any future executive order from President Donald Trump on any issue should comply with existing laws and regulations. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

U.S. Congress: Don't Meet with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen – or Any Other Lobbyist Representing Abusive Middle East Governments

Nadeam Elshami, Lobbyist Pushing Weapons Flow to Egyptian Goverment

October 11, 2022

CAIRO, EGYPT - FEBRUARY 9: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (6th L), Prime Minister of Egypt Sherif Ismail Mohamed (4th L), Egyptian Minister of Defence Sedki Sobhy (7th L) and other military and civilian officials attend a symposium titled "Counter Terrorism" and "National Will" and organized by Egyptian Armed Forces in Cairo, Egypt on February 9, 2017. (Photo by Egyptian Presidency - Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Blinken, Sullivan: Tell Biden Not to Provide $300 Million Military Aid to Egypt

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - JUNE 03: King Philippe of Belgium (not in picture) receives President of the Republic of Tunisia Kais Saied at the Royal Palace on June 03, 2021 in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo by Olivier Matthys/Getty Images)

Faith, Anti-war, and Progressive Organizations Urge Biden to Suspend Military Assistance to Tunisia

Yemeni men inspect the damages at a factory allegedly targeted by Saudi-led coalition's airstrikes in the Red Sea town of Hodeidah on July 27, 2018. (Photo by ABDO HYDER / AFP) (Photo credit should read ABDO HYDER/AFP via Getty Images)

Congress Must Block $650M US-Saudi Arms Sale

November 29, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 25: U.S. President Joe Biden pauses while speaking after signing an executive order related to American manufacturing in the South Court Auditorium of the White House complex on January 25, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden signed an executive order aimed at boosting American manufacturing and strengthening the federal governments Buy American rules. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Organizations Call on Congress to Condemn Lift of Block on Human Rights Conditioned Aid to Egypt

September 14, 2021

CAIRO, EGYPT - DECEMBER 16: Children play on a tank on display at a military museum on December 16, 2016 in Cairo, Egypt. Since the 2011 Arab Spring, Egyptians have been facing a crisis, the uprising brought numerous political changes, but also economic turmoil, increased terror attacks and the unravelling of the once strong tourism sector. In recent weeks Egypt has again been hit by multiple bomb blasts, the most recent killed 26 Christians inside the St Peter and St Paul Church during Sunday mass. As Christians took to the streets chanting anti-government slogans, fears grow of an escalation in militant activity which would further deal damage to a country trying to rebuild. In recent months protests against rising fuel and food prices, calls for mass anti-government demonstrations and the continued terror attacks have seen Egyptian president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, suffer a significant drop in popularity. Mr. Al-Sisi has promised change, fearing anger and desperation could lead to popular unrest, however inflation currently sits at the highest level in seven years, jobless rates are above 13percent and more than 90million people are said to be living in poverty. The outlook forced the government to seek a $12 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund, pushing the country to float the Egyptian pound to qualify for the loan. The move led to a sharp devaluation of the Egyptian pound which now sits at 18EGP to the dollar. The turmoil is affecting not only the poor but both the middle-class and the wealthy as food and commodity prices skyrocket. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Aid Conditionality

U.S. Military Aid Has Helped Crush Egypt's Civil Society. End It Now

August 23, 2021

A fire rages at sunrise in Khan Yunis following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip, May 12, 2021. (Photo by Youssef Massoud/AFP via Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Why the U.S. Should End Its Unconditional Military Aid to Israel

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