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William D. Hartung

William D. Hartung is a Senior Research Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research and the author of And Weapons for All.

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Keeping Up with the French

Foreign policy insiders in Washington are fond of describing France as a uniquely amoral weapons-trafficking nation that will sell anything to anyone. This harsh judgement seemed to be confirmed last August, when the latest Congressional Research Service report on arms transfers revealed that France

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