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** 'Poison' Ivy Lee, America's first foreign lobbying tycoon ([link removed])
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By Nick Cleveland-Stout on Aug 19, 2024 12:05 am
Featured Image Foreign governments tend to follow a playbook. As a recent Quincy Institute brief ([link removed]) on foreign lobbying noted, “countries use firms based in Washington to lobby active members of Congress in pursuit of various aims — such as receiving U.S. weapons, currying American favor in regional conflicts, and more general reputation laundering.” This playbook, which gives dictators like Saudi de-facto ruler Mohamed bin Salman an influential mouthpiece in Washington, has received more attention since 2016.
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** Peace hopes dashed as Sudan's warring factions blow off talks ([link removed])
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By Dan M. Ford on Aug 16, 2024 08:45 am
Featured Image The United States, Saudi Arabia, and Switzerland have been co-hosting peace talks in Geneva ([link removed](RSF).) with the goal of ending the civil war in Sudan that has been raging between the government’s Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023.
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** How Saudi Arabia went from pariah to patron ([link removed])
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By Sarah Leah Whitson on Aug 16, 2024 12:05 am
Featured Image Perhaps we should be grateful that it took President Biden over four years to fully abandon his campaign pledge to end arms sales to Saudi Arabia, eroding the promise bit by bit before finally announcing at the end of the day on Friday, August 9, that the administration would resume ([link removed]) sales of offensive air-to-ground munitions to the Kingdom.
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** Why Russia is far outpacing US/Nato in weapons production ([link removed])
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By Mike Fredenburg on Aug 14, 2024 05:30 am
Featured Image “Since the end of the Cold War, defense industries have not been doing much production work for the department,” declared ([link removed]) William A. LaPlante, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Global Security Forum in April.
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