June 2009
Obama's Cairo speech shifted the discourse, away from justifying reckless imperial hubris, unilateralism and militarism and towards a more cooperative and potentially even internationalist approach. It is the task of people across the US to mobilise and turn that new language into new policies.
June 2009
The United States is facing a virtually united front of Latin American nations demanding that Cuba be readmitted to the Organization of American States (OAS) that meets in Tegucigalpa, Honduras today.
May 2009
Interviewed by Louise Dunne
US President Barack Obama is failing to match his words to his actions and his promise to end the Guantanamo "mess" must not lead to detention without trial on American soil.
April 2009
The United States’s shift of strategy towards “AfPak” needs to go further by taking account of regional concerns and local agencies.
April 2009
Manuel Pérez-Rocha
Barack Obama's rise to the U.S. presidency has left most Latin Americans suspended between skepticism and hope. That's bound to make the V Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, to be held on April 18 and 19, especially interesting.
A promising sign of meaningful change in U.S. foreign policy toward the hemisphere would be the official demise of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America, whose apparent failure none of the three governments so far have dared to acknowledge.
March 2009
President Obama's speech to Congress was a good first step, but we still have a lot of work to do to end the war in Iraq.
January 2009
NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (IPS) - As much of the world jubilates in the swearing in of Barack Hussein Obama as the President of the United States of America, Indian diplomats are uneasy about what his presidency would entail for relations between the two countries.
Former Indian diplomats and independent experts believe that India has no reason to be particularly apprehensive about the Obama presidency given the breadth and the depth of the U.S.-India relationship.
"In fact, in keeping with its past tradition of support for the civil liberties movement in the U.S.
January 2009
Phyllis Bennis and Joseph Nye interviewed by Gwen Ifill
Phyllis Bennis and Joseph Nye discuss approaches to foreign policy in the new US administration
GWEN IFILL: For more now on what to expect from a Secretary of State Clinton, we turn to Joseph Nye, dean of the Kennedy School at Harvard — he held intelligence and Pentagon posts in the Clinton administration — and Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank. She serves as an informal adviser to the U.N. officials — to U.N.
December 2008
Militarism News (last updated in December 2008).
October 2008
A new US administration will provide an opportunity for change, but it will take a powerful, mobilized antiwar movement to hold a new administration accountable to promises made, argues Phyllis Bennis.
