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    Movements for Peace
    May 2012
    Phyllis Bennis

    Palestinian Hunger Strikers and U.S. Veterans Returning Service Medals Lead Movements for Peace

    We're Fighting in a War We Lost Before the War Began
    May 2012
    Phyllis Bennis

    New poll shows support for Afghanistan war lower than ever, and for good reason

    The Phases of War: Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Israel
    April 2012
    Phyllis Bennis

    The U.S. is 11 years into its current war in Afghanistan and still losing. We never had a chance to "win" this war of vengeance – and while few in Washington are ready to admit that, they’ve continued to revise and redefine just what "winning" might look like.

    Assessing Burma/Myanmar’s New Government
    April 2012

    Burma is in the midst of its most important period of political transition in over two decades. TNI and BCN hosted a conference to look at the challenges and opportunities in five key areas: politics, ethnic relations, the economy, social and humanitarian affairs, and the...

    Burma Policy Briefings
    The War on Colombia’s Poor
    January 2012
    Ross Eventon

    The EU's proposed free trade agreement with Colombia will worsen the already serious human rights violations in the country, as its drive to access to cheap raw materials for European corporations means forcing local people off their land.

    After Gadhafi, the West eyes the Libyan prize
    October 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    The Libyan people face major challenges in deepening democracy in a country that is oil rich, deeply divided and dependant on NATO for its victory against Gadhafi.

    African political unity must be more selective: A blueprint for change
    September 2011
    William Gumede

    There cannot be any clearer illustration of the impotence of Africa’s continental and regional institutions to find local solutions to the continent’s problems, than their numbing inaction in the face of the wave of popular rebellions against dictators in North Africa sweeping across the...

    Bye-bye peace process: Palestine comes to the UN
    September 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    After 20 years of failed U.S. diplomacy based on protecting Israel’s occupation, the need to move to a new diplomacy rooted in international law and human rights remains a vital necessity.

    9/11: Ten years later, who have we become?
    September 2011
    Tom Reifer

    Ten years and two wars later, Americans face the monetary and psychological costs of both militarism and Wall Street materialism, effectively bankrupting the country; not to mention the casualties of war at home, and in Afghanistan and Iraq.

    9/11 did not start or end at midnight
    September 2011
    Richard Falk

    All too often 9/11 is viewed from the perspective of the nation-state rather than from a global standpoint.

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