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Stephen Semler

Stephen Semler

United States
Co-Founder | Security Policy Reform Institute (SPRI)
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www.securityreform.org/

Semler studied the geopolitics of the Middle East and US foreign policy toward the region at Pennsylvania State University, University of Jordan, George Washington University and American University of Beirut.  ​

Featured Publications

Trump's budget for 2027, a breakdown

Polygraph | April 13, 2026.
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How much aid has the US given Israel?

Polygraph | January 20, 2026.
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Arms companies pay shareholders more cash than they generate

Polygraph | October 30, 2025.
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Publications

  • Trump's budget for 2027, a breakdown
    Polygraph | April 13, 2026.
  • How much aid has the US given Israel?
    Polygraph | January 20, 2026.
  • Arms companies pay shareholders more cash than they generate
    Polygraph | October 30, 2025.
  • Inside Trump's $1 trillion military bonanza
    Popular Information | May 12, 2025.
  • How the Iraq War turbocharged police militarization
    Polygraph | March 24, 2025.
  • The Myth of Pentagon Budget Cuts
    These Times | February 27, 2025.
  • Israel’s US-backed starvation policy in Gaza: Assessing Biden Administration's Failed Humanitarian Ultimatum to Israel
    Security in Context | November 25, 2024.
  • United States Spending on Israel’s Military Operations and Related U.S. Operations in the Region, October 7, 2023 – September 30, 2024
    Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University | October 7, 2024.
  • Is Israel intentionally attacking aid workers
    Responsible Statecraft | September 12, 2024.
  • No Change in Gaza Policy? Really?
    Jacobin | September 4, 2024.
  • Gaza breakdown: 20 times Israel used US arms in likely war crimes
    Responsible Statecraft | August 26, 2024.
  • Washington is not telling truth about the Gaza pier
    Responsible Statecraft | June 12, 2024.
  • A Pentagon budget of $1 trillion is looming. Here’s how to stop it
    The Hill | April 26, 2024.
  • On Gaza, Democrats are talking one way but walking another
    Jacobin | April 3, 2024.
  • Joe Biden is shipping weapons to Israel every 36 hours
    Jacobin | March 13, 2024.
  • Biden is bankrolling Israel's war amid growing financial hardship at home
    The Intercept | March 1, 2024.
  • US Weapons Shipments to Israel Are Enabling War Crimes
    Jacobin | November 22, 2023.
  • Biden’s Foreign Aid Request Is Corporate Welfare for the Arms Industry
    The Nation | November 12, 2023.
  • The United States Should Not Fund Israel’s Assault on Gaza
    Jacobin | October 12, 2023.
  • Top Five Weapons Companies Set to Get $140 Billion From Pentagon Next Year
    Sludge | September 22, 2023.
  • Military Spending Is Soaring, Even as Food Insecurity Reaches New Heights
    Jacobin | August 8, 2023.
  • Biden Is Selling Weapons To The Majority Of The World’s Autocracies
    The Intercept | May 11, 2023.
  • The Cataclysmic Iraq War in 6 Charts
    Jacobin | April 8, 2023.
  • House authorizes $858B for the Pentagon
    Speaking Security newsletter | December 8, 2022.
  • How the Military-Industrial Complex Gets Its Power and Harms Workers, in 6 Graphs
    Jacobin | October 13, 2022.
  • Biden’s Militarized Foreign Policy is Obstructing his Climate Agenda
    Outrider | July 19, 2022.
  • The Think Tanks Advising Congress on Military Spending Take Money From the Arms Industry
    Jacobin | 2022