FCNL in the News

Maximum pressure and maximum suffering is a failed paradigm that’s exacerbating the pandemic.

Given the experience in Afghanistan, it’s clearer than ever the global war on terror has been an unmitigated humanitarian and strategic disaster.

Ultimately, Congress will need to repeal the law that allows these endless and ever-expanding wars: the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.

This event, sponsored by Demand Progress, FCNL, and the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, offered updates on the war and blockade in Yemen and explored measures Congress can take to help.

We must adjust a tax code that bends over backward for the extremely wealthy while treating those who struggle as a burden.

It’s been hyped as the end of the forever war. Twenty years after the attacks of September 11th, President Joe Biden says he pulled the last US troops out of Afghanistan. But as the United States considers the future of its counter terrorism strategy, the violence and human tragedies of war may be far from over. Guest: Hassan El-Tayyab- Legislative Director for Middle East Policy with the Friends Committee on National Legislation

In this interview, I asked Randall about efforts to cut (or at least reduce the rate of growth of) the United States defense budget, which exceeds $750 billion annually, even though other challenges to national security—climate change and pandemic disease, to name just two—loom large.

Thoughts on Post-Civil War, Post-Civil Rights, Post-George Floyd American Justice

Gregory Kulacki, China project manager at Union of Concerned Scientists and Miyako Kurosaki, research coordinator at the Hiroshima Organization For Global Peace talk about a new report that shows how Japan is not an obstacle to a US No First Use policy. Early Warning features Allen Hester, legislative representative for nuclear disarmament and Pentagon spending at the Friends Committee on National Legislation and Ryan Mason, a corporate security professional and MSC student in the Security Studies program at Liverpool John Moores University. And Michelle Dover answers a listener’s question about the oldest nuclear weapons still in use.

If deterrence is synonymous with dominance, no amount of military spending will ever be enough.