Search results for: “Flournoy”
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Should Michèle Flournoy Be Defense Secretary?
Michèle Flournoy is facing opposition for her hawkish record and financial entanglements with the weapons industry.
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Is a Network of Donors Neutralizing Peace Activism?
Hoh tells Lindorff that while he has no inside information about the funding policies of the funding consortium or its members, “The assumption that the big peace and national security funding groups are taming the peace movement is a correct one.” He explains: “When you have a bunch of organizations in a group like that,…
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Austin at Pentagon: Good for Empire, Raytheon
Joe Biden has reportedly selected retired general Lloyd Austin III as his nominee to head the Pentagon.
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Pressure Grows on Biden on Pentagon Pick
“Ms. Flournoy’s consistent support for military interventions has contributed to devastating crises around the world, including in Yemen.”
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Biden Foreign Policy: Corporate, Pro-War, Secretive
“As an effort to undermine anti-war Democrats and promote Bush’s plans to invade Iraq, Flournoy claimed that the U.S. needed to ‘strike preemptively before a crisis erupts to destroy an adversary’s weapons stockpile’ before it “could erect defenses to protect those weapons, or simply disperse them.”
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Biden: A War Cabinet?
Everett’s piece notes the record of Susan Rice, expected by many to be Secretary of State in a Biden administration.
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Examining the Center for American Progress
“Internal criticism of the Emirati donations leaked into the news media, prompting an in-house investigation that led to the firing of two staff members. One of them, Ken Gude, a longtime executive, is working with a lawyer on a wrongful dismissal lawsuit.
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Amnesty International “Stokes Syrian War”
“While the Amnesty report makes many accusations against the Syrian government, AI ignores the violation of Syrian sovereignty being committed by Western and Gulf countries. It is a curious fact that big NGOs such as Amnesty International focus on violations of ‘human rights law’ and ‘humanitarian law’ but ignore the crime of aggression, also called…