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    September 11th Didn't Change the World. September 12th Did
    September 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    It wasn’t the events of September 11th that changed the world, but the events of September 12th and beyond, when the Bush administration took the world to war in response; that changed the world, and continues to threaten U.S. and global security, and shred U.S. democracy.

    Headlines or Not, the Iraq War is Not Over
    September 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    It might seem like cause for celebration after reading the New York Times headline, "Iraq War Marks First Month with No U.S. Military Deaths." But the smaller print on the page reminds us why celebrating is not really...

    Staying in Afghanistan: Unending occupation
    August 2011
    Ross Eventon

    While the US focuses on consolidating its permanent military presence in Afghanistan, designed to guard and exploit Central Asian energy reserves, its earlier rational "to fight terrorism" is a faded memory. Afghanis, meanwhile, continue to lose their lives and humanitarian conditions worsen.

    Libya: Too Soon to Declare Victory
    August 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    The success of Libya's uprising will have a great deal to do with the willingness of its leadership to break its dependency on the United States and NATO.

    Victory in Afghanistan
    August 2011
    Ross Eventon

    Debate over the 10-year-plus war in Afghanistan tends to focus on how and when it "can be won," obscuring the fundamental question of whether it was morally acceptable in the first place. Now as the US gets closer to consolidating its imperial presence in the region for decades to come, the...

    Obama offers token troop withdrawals in Afghanistan while maintaining "war on terror” mindset
    June 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    President Obama passed up an opportunity to end the war in Afghanistan and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people.

    The Emerging Geo-Strategic Landscape in Central Asia
    June 2011
    Ross Eventon

    Recent developments in Afghanistan suggest the New Great Game is intensifying in Central Asia.

    Can Democracy Activists Undo US and IMF Damage?
    June 2011
    Patrick Bond

    Obama's speech on the Middle East and North Africa missed the point of the Arab uprising, and offered little sign of conciliation or support for the Palestinians.

    Torture: Immoral, illegal, counterproductive, and un-American
    May 2011
    Peter Weiss

    Resorting to lawlessness in 'the war against terror' only serves to undermine the very values that made American society strong in the first place.

    Phyllis Bennis on Democracy Now! talks about the expanding Western intervention in Libya and it's consequences
    April 2011
    Phyllis Bennis
     Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org

    The continuing expansion of NATO's intervention in Libya has less to do with oil as in Iraq and is more a reactive response to the wider uprising across the Middle East which threatens US / Western hegemony.

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