As the first formal probe by an international rights body into allegations of U.S. mass surveillance began here Monday, privacy advocates from throughout the Americas accused Washington of violating international covenants and endangering civil society. Monday’s...
Arms control advocates are decrying a new U.S. Department of Defense announcement that it will be building and selling 1,300 cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, worth some 641 million dollars. The munitions at the heart of the sale are technically legal under recently...
Although the United States and Russia have massively reduced their collective number of nuclear weapons since the heyday of the Cold War, the rate of that reduction is slowing, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) warned Monday. Further, these two countries...
U.S. military assistance to key Central Asian governments has increased dramatically in recent years but remains highly “unexamined," according to new research presented in Washington on Tuesday. Military assistance, which stood at around 5% of all U.S. aid to the...
