{"id":16220,"date":"2012-08-28T06:55:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T14:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=16220"},"modified":"2012-08-28T06:55:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T14:55:43","slug":"us-arms-transfers-reach-unprecedented-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/us-arms-transfers-reach-unprecedented-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"US Arms Transfers Reach Unprecedented Highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/2012\/08\/crs_arms_transfers.html\">Via Secrecy News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn worldwide arms transfer agreements in 2011 \u2014 to both developed and developing nations \u2014 the United States dominated, ranking first with $66.3 billion in such agreements or 77.7% of all such agreements. This is the highest single year agreements total in the history of the U.S. arms export program,\u201d the CRS\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/weapons\/R42678.pdf\">report<\/a>\u00a0said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/29\/the-specs-of-us-weapons-welfare\/\">Weapons welfare<\/a> from Washington has many deleterious effects, from <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/arms-from-us-fueling-killings-and-mass-rape-in-congo\/\">fueling killings and mass rape in the Congo<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0suppressing democracy in Bahrain (among innumerable other dictatorships), to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/obamas-weapons-welfare-to-tyrannies-gets-applause\/\">keeping the military industrial complex<\/a> fat and happy and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/07\/10\/under-netanyahu-illegal-settler-population-swells\/\">enabling Israeli crimes<\/a> against Palestinians. The Obama administration is breaking records in this respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Secrecy News: \u201cIn worldwide arms transfer agreements in 2011 \u2014 to both developed and developing nations \u2014 the United States dominated, ranking first with $66.3 billion in such agreements or 77.7% of all such agreements. This is the highest single year agreements total in the history of the U.S. arms export program,\u201d the CRS\u00a0report\u00a0said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-16220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16222,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220\/revisions\/16222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16220"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}