Category: Content Series

Economic Sanctions Initiative

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No, Senator, it’s not 90 percent.

By James Hasik

Senator John McCain of Arizona was rather tough on the administration’s nominee to be deputy defense secretary. The senator is simply incorrect about the concentration of supplier power in defense in the United States. The Pentagon’s five biggest supply accounts were awarded 27.8 percent of the gross value of its new contracts in 2014. None of these figures approach 90 percent.

Hasik Signs An Open Letter on BRAC

By James Hasik

Read the full letter here.

Brizuela de Ávila Joins NPR to Discuss Fighting Central America’s Drug Cartels

By María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila

Listen to the full interview here.

Is imported aluminum a threat to American national security?

By James Hasik

Indeed, price is the point. Whether by Chinese mercantilism or Canadian hydropower, the price of raw aluminum in the US has dropped about 20 percent in the past four years, benefiting American producers of automobiles, aircraft, and those trendy-again beer cans. So how is that not good?