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Thinking Strategically: Challenges Facing the Anti-War Movement 3 April 2006
By Phyllis Bennis
Assessing the achievements of the US anti-war movement, Bennis stresses that follwing the success in transforming public opinion to the now almost two thirds majority opposition to the war in Iraq, the task now is to transform that consciousness into empowerment and an actual change in policy.
Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy U.S. Power
Interview with Phyllis Bennis
On the third anniversary of the February 15th global anti-war protest, the day tens of millions of people took to the streets in some 600 cities around the world to protest the Bush Administration's plans to invade Iraq, Phyllis Bennis spoke to Democracy Now! about how the anti-war movement has evolved into a major force for global change.
Challenging Empire
Cher Gilmore interviews Phyllis Bennis February 2006
Washington's empire has to be confronted in Palestine where Ariel Sharon's plans, supported by Washington, are likely to continue after his demise. But this is not enough, and civil society should work to reclaim the United Nations, argues Bennis.
The nuclear complex: America, the bomb, and Osama bin Laden
By Zia Mian and Pervez Hoodbhoy
The twin ambitions of American empire and radical Islamism could bring nuclear catastrophe to the world. A different ethical and political project is urgently needed, say the Pakistani scholars Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian.
Challenging Empire
People, Governments and the UN Defy US Power
by Phyllis Bennis
Interlink Publishing, November 2005
When millions around the world marched to protest the Iraq war and the US drive towards empire, the New York Times dubbed global public opinion, "the second super-power." What empowered those protests was their alliance -- if only for a brief moment -- with governments unexpectedly willing to stand up to US pressure, and with the United Nations itself, when it followed its Charter's command to stop "the scourge of war." Bennis tracks the rise of US unilateralism and the doctrine of pre-emptive war, looking particularly at Iraq and Israel/Palestine, examining both the potential and the challenges ahead in reclaiming the UN as part of the global peace movement.
Bush Administration on the Skids in Iraq, Palestine, at Home 17 November 2005
By Phyllis Bennis
Anti-war sentiments are on the rise across the US, now being vocalised even by former war supporters, and reflected in the Senate vote calling on the administration to report to congress on "progress". With the collapse of Bush's last pretext for war - "democratisation" across the Middle East, the emperor's nakedness is ever more exposed, declares Bennis.
Corpocracy vs the global commons 29 July 2005
By Phyllis Bennis
The US Empire is rising, but so too are the challenges to it, said Bennis in her speech at a public meeting in Melbourne recently. The demand to stop the occupation of Iraq comes not only from the peace movement. There is a large group of Iraqi parliamentarians putting forward the demand, and even the US congress has created an "Out of Iraq" caucus. The moral deficit of the illegal US policy in Iraq is increasing, and the coalition backing it, such as it ever was, is dissipating. Bennis urged the peace movement to continue to expose the moral bankruptcy of US policy towards Iraq, to build itself on the basis of international law and move forward to reclaim the UN.
Hong Kong Call to Action against War
17 December 2005
Call to an internaitonal gathering in Ecuador in March 2007 for the abolition of all foreign military bases
NO BASES NETWORK - International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases
5 November 2005
Forging a stronger link between two solidarity movements - for Iraq and Palestine, and the alter-globalisation movement 21 May 2005
Interview with Achin Vanaik
In this interview, Vanaik talks of the importance of continuous efforts to delegitimise both the US occupation of Iraq, and Israeli occupation of Palestine under US cover. The key strategic terrain on which the peace movement must fight is within the US. It is therefore necessary to urgently forge stronger links with the anti-war and the alter-globalisation movements in the US.
Bush Administration, Peace Movement Learned Very Different Lessons from Vietnam War 15 May 2005
An interview with Marcus Raskin
In this interview Marcus Raskin, former fellow of TNI , compares the US government's position during the Vietnam war with the current US war against Iraq, and warns the citizens of US "unless you speak out and act, the social and political space will close down. The only way to keep open that social and political space is to use it."
Iraq, the US, and the Challenges to the Global Peace Movement 18 March 2005
By Walden Bello
Speaking in Vancouver, at an event organized as a part of the global Protest against the War in Iraq, Bello calls for militant solidarity among world's peoples and continuing global resistance to the Bush agenda of global domination
Report from a Rainbow-Covered Rome 21 March 2004
By Phyllis Bennis
Bennis reports from the 20 March demonstration calling for an end to the occupation of Iraq
No More Demockery May 2003
By Hilary Wainwright
The global movement for peace and justice which emerged from the opposition to the war should be used to achieve democratic, institutional and political change.
Going Global: Building a Movement against Empire April 2003
by Phyllis Bennis
Washington's eagerness, in its push to launch pre-emptive war against Iraq, without United Nations authorization and with the expressed aim of toppling the government of an independent country, could be proof of Washington's imperial desire.
This paper was written on the occasion of TNI Fellows' Meeting (16 - 17 May 2003, Amsterdam), an annual gathering of TNI fellows and friends.
An Agenda for Justice 3 April 2002
John Cavanagh and Phyllis Bennis
The global movement for peace and justice we are building should emphasize the primacy of internationalism and the centrality of the United Nations
The Stalemate in Iraq and the Global Peace Movement 2 April 2003
By Walden Bello
Washington may no longer be so brash when confronted with military stalemate. For forces opposing the war, now is the time to press on with the demand for unilateral withdrawal of the US and UK from raq.
Beirut 2004: A Milestone in the Global Struggle against Injustice and War Beirut International Assembly of Anti-war and Anti-Globalisation Movements, 17 September 2004
By Walden Bello
In his opening speech to the Beirut International Assembly of Anti- war and Anti-Globalisation Movements, Bello charts the history of the global justice movement in the last decade and in reference to the occupation of Iraq, identifies the movement's only principle stand as being the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of US and coalition forces. Bello declared the one front of the struggle as being that against imperialism and war, and the other as the struggle to change the rules of the global economy, for it is the logic of global capitalism that is the source of the disruption of society and of the environment.
Where Next for the Global Anti-War and Anti-Globalization Movements?
An International Strategy Meeting
Beirut, Lebanon, 17-19 September 2004
General Assembly of the Global Anti-War Movement
World Social Forum, Mumbai, India, 16-21 January 2004
Report of the International Anti-US Bases Conference
World Social Forum, Mumbai, India 17 and 20 January 2004
Iraq & the Global Peace Movement
Strategy Conference of the Global Peace Movement Jakarta, Indonesia, 19-21 May 2003
Representatives of the global peace movement gathered in Jakarta to assess the current conjuncture, to chart its next plans and to plot its future strategy. Delegates from 24 countries, representing some of the biggest anti-war coalitions and groupings across the world, emerged from intense debates and discussions with a statement of unity and a specific plan of action embodied in a document called the "Jakarta Peace Consensus."
Asian Peace Mission to Iraq
14-17 March 2003
Recommendations for Peace on the Korean Peninsula 2 June 2003
National Council for Peace on the Korean Peninsula
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