Peace & Security

Support TNI book project: Cashing in on Catastrophe

September 2013
Nick Buxton

Help crowdfund TNI's critical book that exposes how military planners and corporations are gearing up to profit from climate change and that puts forward ideas from popular movements for just solutions for sharing our food, water and energy in a climate-changed world.

Optimism and Fear

September 2013
Phyllis Bennis

If I was really optimistic, I’d say that President Obama is hoping that Congress will follow the example of the British parliament – and vote against his proposed military strike on Syria.

The Checkered History of Humanitarian Intervention

September 2013
Walden Bello

The impending US strike on Syria is justified as necessary to punish the Assad regime for using chemical weapons on its citizens and prevent it from further employing them. The situation, says Washington, calls for “humanitarian intervention.”

The Syrian Civil War, Chemical Weapons, & the Rush to Regional and Global Disaster

August 2013
Tom Reifer

The US, Saudis and Qatar who seek to take sides in fuelling sectarianism and violence in the Middle East, should remember how a similar discourse of preventative war and promotion of sectarian forces in Europe led to World War I.

 

Syria crisis demands tough diplomacy

August 2013
Phyllis Bennis
David Wildman

The threat of a reckless, dangerous, and illegal US or US-led assault on Syria is looking closer than ever. However any attack will not protect civilians—it will mean taking sides once again in a bloody, complicated civil war.

Race, space and punishment in urban sociology

July 2013
Tom Reifer

Structural circumstances of deprivation and criminalization facing African-Americans and the racialized perceptions of criminality appear to be some of the salient features that recently led to a young black teenager being killed by neighborhood watch patrolman George Zimmerman.

Grounding of Bolivian presidential jet and treatment of Snowden shames European Union

July 2013

Over 50 international lawyers, human rights, civil rights and civil society groups and networks say the actions of certain EU member states in response to Snowden's revelations contradict the EU’s stated commitment to democracy, human rights and international law.

Egypt's still-unfinished Revolution: Celebration & Danger

July 2013
Phyllis Bennis

Whether or not the day’s events in Egypt constitute a military coup d’etat, the removal from office of President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian military portends great excitement but even greater dangers.

CSO Conference Vienna+20: Human Rights in Crises

June 2013

Vienna+20 commemorates the Second World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in June 1993, a landmark with regard to the realization and advancement of human rights.

After PRISM: on Power, Trust and Accountability

June 2013
Ben Hayes

Multinational corporations who dominate large parts of the internet have provided USA’s National Security Agency with massive amounts of their users’ intimately personal data. This is simply unacceptable in any democracy worthy of the name.