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    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.

    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.

    The Crisis of Humanitarian Intervention
    August 2011
    Walden Bello

    Events in Libya and Syria have again brought the legitimacy of armed humanitarian intervention and so-called “responsibility to protect” into question.

    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.

    International community must support non‐military solutions in northern Myanmar
    June 2011
    TNI

    Following new eruptions of violence in northern Myanmar, civil society organizations have issued a statement calling for urgent international engagement and dialogue to support non-military solutions. 

    A Shameless Secretary General versus Freedom Flotilla 2
    June 2011
    Richard Falk

    A year after Israel's violent attack on the first aid flotilla, it has failed to keep its promise to end the blockade of Gaza, where the humanitarian crisis continues to worsen. The second flotilla planned this year will again try to ease conditions, amid the failure of political actors to bring...

    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.

    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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