Stories by Phyllis Bennis
Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. She is the author of "Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy U.S. Power" (Interlink Publishing, October 2005).
As Obama prepares to meet Israel's new hard-line PM, much of the world awaits signs of a new course.
Posted on May 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Afghanistan is known as the "graveyard of empires" for a reason.
Posted on Mar 9, 2009, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
Now let's see Obama pull the foreign mercenaries and contractors, close all the U.S. military bases, and cease all U.S. efforts to control Iraqi oil.
Posted on Feb 28, 2009, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
The three top candidates to become Israel's new PM vied with each other to see who could be tougher -- more aggressively anti-Palestinian.
Posted on Feb 12, 2009, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
The decision to detain the UN's envoy fits a pattern of hiding the human consequences of the siege of Gaza from the world.
Posted on Dec 24, 2008, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
Whatever the U.S.-Iraqi "agreement" ends up looking like, it is unlikely to have much of an effect on the occupation.
Posted on Oct 27, 2008, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
Veteran peace activist Phyllis Bennis responds to Alexander Cockburn's analysis of the anti-war movement in The Nation.
Posted on Jul 31, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Getting Republicans to jump ship is central to the anti-war movement's strategy to get out of Iraq. But activists need to be wary of their intentions and not let them co-opt the message that it's time for withdrawal.
Posted on Jul 18, 2007, Source: AlterNet
To stop the looming war with Iran, Congress needs to pre-empt the possibility of the White House launching an attack. The secret weapon is the Boland Amendment.
Posted on Feb 8, 2007, Source: TomPaine.com
Mohammed el Baradei won the Nobel Peace Prize as much for his future work on Iran as for his past work on Iraq.
Posted on Oct 13, 2005, Source: TomPaine.com
The US has issued an open threat to the other 190 U.N. member states, the social movements and peoples of the entire world, and the United Nations itself.
Posted on Sep 1, 2005, Source: TomPaine.com
Lost in the Beltway debate over intelligence failure is the enormous price we – Americans, Iraqis, the world – are paying for the Bush administration's self-serving war.
Posted on Jul 15, 2004, Source: AlterNet
There are clear contradictions between Powell's Security Council speech and Hans Blix's recent report on the UN inspectors' findings.
Posted on Feb 5, 2003, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
Useful information for talking with friends, family, co-workers, media and your elected officials about nonviolent alternatives to war.
Posted on Jan 16, 2003, Source: War Times
The author, an esteemed foreign policy expert, wasn’t allowed to testify as an expert witness for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- so she submitted this written testimony instead.
Posted on Aug 15, 2002, Source: AlterNet
