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Countercultural Leadership for the World We Seek

For too long, the Pentagon has been treated as a sacred cow in budget negotiations.

War is never inevitable.

Transferring the weapons may bring tactical benefits but would be a strategic disaster.

In March, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced they had normalized relations in a deal brokered by China. For the US, the deal is both a wakeup call and a chance to address urgent priorities with diplomacy.

For 2024, President Biden requested the largest military budget in history — $886 billion.

Opinion by Rep. Barbara Lee and Bridget Moix

Investing in peacebuilding measures is the most effective way to stop the spread of war.

FCNL Legislative Director for Middle East Policy Hassan El-Tayyab was interviewed on BBC World, where he discussed the agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran. “The US should take advantage of this opportunity to shift its approach in the Middle East away from dominance, hegemony, and endless war, and towards diplomacy, restraint, and support for regional power-sharing agreements like the one we are seeing play out right now,” El-Tayyab said.

A world without nuclear arms control is much more dangerous and unstable. We must do everything in our power to guard against the further degradation of nuclear arms control and prevent an unconstrained, costly global nuclear arms race.