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    Occupy Wall Street: New politics and new milestones
    November 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    The occupy movement has achieved an incredible and much-needed shake-up of a long-standing political stasis in the US and elsewhere, but it is crucial now to highlight the connection between failed foreign policy, bloated military spending and illegal wars, and the economic crisis at home.

    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...

    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.

    Understanding the Arab Spring
    June 2011
    Kamil Mahdi
    Phyllis Bennis
    Ben Hayes
     Salwa Ismail, Shaheer George, Mehdi Lalou, Yao Graham,

    Middle East scholars join TNI fellows in a unique and fascinating discussion of the context of the democracy uprisings in the Middle East and the way it may shape the region for future generations.

    Who will reshape the Arab world: its people, or the US
    May 2011
    Tariq Ali

    Phase one of the Arab spring is over. Phase two – the attempt to crush or contain genuine popular movements – has begun.

    Justice or Vengeance: lessons from Bin Laden's death
    May 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    Vengeance may have been wreaked on the infamous Al Qaeda leader, but as long as deadly U.S. wars continue in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and beyond, justice has not been done.

    The “Arab 1848”: Reflections on US Policy & the Power of Nonviolence
    February 2011
    Tom Reifer

    The uprising in the Arab world shows, along with being a textbook example of nonviolence as a mechanism of democratic social change, the crude results of a US policy based on dictatorship promotion.

    Iraq: The Invisible War
    November 2010
    Kamil Mahdi

    The US continues to paint a rosy picture of progress in Iraq but the reality is one of poverty, violence, torture and political corruption.

    Get all US forces and mercenaries out of Iraq
    November 2010
    Kamil Mahdi

    War and Sanctions continue to be used to manipulate and control Iraq. Joy Gordon's recent book on the sanctions and US policy shows them being used by the US and Britain, not as an alternative to war as many in the international community may have intended, but as a means of softening in...

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