Sentences with phrase «u.s. military aid»

As long U.S. military aid and investments continue to flow to Israel while it violates human rights and international law, the U.S. will not have the credibility with either side to play that constructive role.»

Condor also considered murdering U.S. Congressman Edward Koch (later mayor of New York) because of his opposition to U.S. military aid to the Uruguayan dictatorship.

«U.S. military aid is obviously this really broad term that applies to all kinds of material aid that the U.S. might give to another country,» Molyneux says.

U.S. military aid to Colombia indirectly subsidizes the paramilitaries» acts of terrorism.

The memo points out that, in the past, State Department - led «bureaucrats cut off U.S. military aid to the police in Colombia as the GOP Congress fought to save Colombia from the FARC terrorist threat, while simultaneously tacking the drug threat.»

Not exact matches

The investment in military hardware in Trump's budget would come at an expense of foreign aid and democracy promotion programs that have been a hallmark of U.S. foreign policy for decades.

Keeping Gitmo open was a move that would foster support from the U.S. Military and Attorney General Eric Holder, who came the President's aid after he was blasted by various civil rights organizations.

«Without this type of political support, military aid, and supportive push from a GOP Congress in the 1990s, it might have become a failed nation and even greater «narco - state» threat to the U.S.»

In Egypt, the Sisi government will have a chance to discuss the recent U.S. decision to suspend some of Egypt's military aid package because of Washington's concerns over civil liberties.

[355] During the initial years of the Obama administration, the U.S. increased military cooperation with Israel, including increased military aid, re-establishment of the U.S. - Israeli Joint Political Military Group and the Defense Policy Advisory Group, and an increase in visits among high - level military officials of both comilitary cooperation with Israel, including increased military aid, re-establishment of the U.S. - Israeli Joint Political Military Group and the Defense Policy Advisory Group, and an increase in visits among high - level military officials of both comilitary aid, re-establishment of the U.S. - Israeli Joint Political Military Group and the Defense Policy Advisory Group, and an increase in visits among high - level military officials of both coMilitary Group and the Defense Policy Advisory Group, and an increase in visits among high - level military officials of both comilitary officials of both countries.

But for only a small fraction of the $ 2.8 billion a year the U.S. gives Israel in military and economic aid it could provide the subsidies that would make desalination plants economical.

Articles and teaching sessions are devoted to social scandals like the increase in hunger, poverty, homelessness and illiteracy in the U.S. Likewise, issues surrounding U.S. foreign policy, aid and grotesque military appropriations are frequently critiqued on behalf of a foreseen new social order that will be founded on liberationist principles.

By giving it military aid, the U.S. is enabling the Salvadoran regime to sponsor more indiscriminate killing.

In tiny El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, the U.S. government spent about $ 700 per minute ($ 1.4 million per day), largely on military aid, over the past ten years fueling a deadly civil war and in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 1989.

Will he have the strength to say to Israel: take a series of initiatives to allow a viable, integrally united Palestinian state free of Israel's troops, or the U.S. will stop supplying military aid to Israel?

Graham said he is hoping the U.S. military will help unload a Boeing 747 carrying the aid, which is scheduled to leave the U.S. Friday and arrive in Japan on Saturday.

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

«In theory, under [the CSPA], the U.S. government is supposed to be able to block military aid that otherwise would have gone to the states on the basis of their child recruitment,» explains Tim Molyneux, the Child Rights Program Manager at Child Soldiers International, an international advocacy group that works to end the use of child soldiers.

In the U.S., aid has continually been motivated by «the United States» best interests,» and these interests have been explained in terms of political, military and strategic advantages in the raging cold war.

Indeed, the U.S. government has supplied more than $ 40 million in military aid to the hunt for Joseph Kony since 2008.

Children of military service members killed in the line of duty would be eligible for more student aid and other forms of financial assistance if a bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries becomes law.

Congressmen from New York and Vermont are among those introducing bipartisan legislation to block both military aid to Syrian rebel groups and U.S. support of military operations in Syria.

The move has outraged the broader community because the U.S. Military HIV Research Program plays a unique role in AIDS vaccine development.

The U.S. should rethink its overemphasis on military approaches, and Europe should honor its unmet commitments of aid to this region, but other nations — including the wealthy countries of the Middle East and new donors such as India and China — can also help turn the tide.

Military activities in the U.S.S.R. can be unilaterally monitored by the U.S. with the aid of a wide spectrum of remote - sensing technologies, including high - resolution satellite photography

At this conference, the U.S. DoD was represented by both the DoD HIV / AIDS Prevention Program (DHAPP), which is the DoD Executive Agent for HIV Prevention in foreign militaries, and the Military HIV Research Program (MHRP), which is centered at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

Two U.S. military policemen aid a wounded fellow MP during fighting in the U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon, at the beginning of the Tet Offensive.

U.S. military (who contribute considerable aid to the Salvadoran government) and its ambassador vow to try to help, but there are bigger matters on their minds, with the election of Ronald Reagan stateside and with the unrest here in El Salvador, where presidential candidate Major Max (Tony Plana) orders the assassination of Archbishop Romero, whom he considers a threat.

Since the 1995 - 96 academic year, a person who was discharged other than dishonorably from one of the military service academies (the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs or the Coast Guard Academy at New London) is considered a veteran for financial aid pmilitary service academies (the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs or the Coast Guard Academy at New London) is considered a veteran for financial aid pMilitary Academy at West Point, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs or the Coast Guard Academy at New London) is considered a veteran for financial aid purposes.

Upon completion of the AFC ® certification, Fellows continue to support the military community as financial counselors at family readiness and support centers, credit counseling and tax centers, financial aid offices, and credit unions throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Exhibition highlights include Muxima (2005), a video work by Alfredo Jaar, featuring fragmented vignettes of landmines, the AIDS crisis, and remnants of colonialism in Angola; Jenny Holzer's large - scale color - blocked painting Water - board 14 U.S. government document (2010), which depicts a redacted, confidential U.S. government document; Omer Fast's film 5000 Feet Is the Best (2011), which grapples with drone warfare; An - My Lê's photographic depictions of war and military culture that play with fact and fiction; and photographs and a film by Eric Gottesman that are inspired by his exploration of the dissident Ethiopian novel Oromaye.

The Associated Press has repeatedly exposed ties between the Honduran police and death squads, while U.S. military training and aid for the Honduran security forces continues.

In the 1870s, military officers banded together to found both the Army (AAFMAA) and the Navy Mutual Aid Association (Navy Mutual), inspired by the plight of widows and orphans left stranded in the West after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and of the families of U.S. sailors who died at sea.