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The Biden Administration Can and Must Help Save Abdulrahman al-Sadhan


The sentencing of a political dissident in Saudi Arabia has presented a major test for a U.S. administration promising to put “human rights at the center of foreign policy.”
37-year-old Abdulrahman al-Sadhan has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after a sham trial in Saudi Arabia. His crime? Al-Sadhan is alleged to be behind a satirical Twitter account mocking the Saudi ruling family.
His lawyer has until Wednesday, May 5 to file an appeal, but this case is most likely to be resolved politically, after strong intervention from Washington.
The month before Joe Biden won last year’s presidential election, he promised that, if elected, he would “reassess our relationship with the Kingdom [of Saudi Arabia] … and make sure America does not check its values at the door to sell arms or buy oil.” ....

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Squad & Co: Unite as a Block to Downsize Biden's Military Budget


Squad & Co: Unite as a Block to Downsize Biden’s Military Budget
04.05.2021
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Imagine this scenario:
A month before the vote on the federal budget, progressives in Congress declared, “We’ve studied President Biden’s proposed $753 billion military budget, an increase of $13 billion from Trump’s already inflated budget, and we can’t, in good conscience, support this.”
By Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd
Now that would be a show stopper, particularly if they added, “So we have decided to stand united, arm in arm, as a block of NO votes on any federal budget resolution that fails to reduce military spending by 10-30 percent. We stand united against a federal budget resolution that includes upwards of $30 billion for new nuclear weapons slated to ulti ....

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The Squad & Co: Unite as a Block to Downsize Biden's Military Budget


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Imagine this scenario: A month before the vote on the federal budget, progressives in Congress declared, “We’ve studied President Biden’s proposed $753 billion military budget, an increase of $13 billion from Trump’s already inflated budget, and we can’t, in good conscience, support this.”
Now that would be a show stopper, particularly if they added, “So we have decided to stand united, arm in arm, as a block of NO votes on any federal budget resolution that fails to reduce military spending by 10-30 percent. We stand united against a federal budget resolution that includes upwards of $30 billion for new nuclear weapons slated to ultimately cost nearly $2 trillion. We stand united in demanding the $50 billion earmarked to maintain all 800 overseas bases, including the new one under construction in Henoko, Okinawa, be reduced by a third because it’s time we scaled back on plans for global domination.” ....

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