United States

CEO Pay and the Great Recession

TNI participant(s):

Sarah Anderson

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CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most workers in the US since the onset of the economic crisis are not tightening their own belts.

'The End of the War in Iraq'?

The only transition underway is not from U.S. to Iraqi control, but from Pentagon to State Department deployment. Thousands of contractors and other military resources will just receive a 'civilian' label.

Climate Currency

We need public money to prime the pump for private investment in clean energy around the world. This will not only help build climate resilience, but will also create jobs in the US.

What mosque hysteria has to do with the disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

The controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan is not about religion. It's about war.

Unfinished Business of Executive Pay Reform

Excessive executive pay, as the Wall Street meltdown has demonstrated ever so vividly, endangers our public well-being as surely as any other pollutants.

Revenge of the Deficit-Haters

Death and Taxes

Ironically, the loudest complainers about paying taxes become the most eloquent advocates of spending more on the military.

Phyllis Bennis: Afghanistan after the Wikileaks War Logs

TNI participant(s):

Phyllis Bennis

Where published:

Voices from the Frontlines Radio

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interview Phyllis Voices from the Frontlines Radio

Interview about the impact of the Wikileaks documents and the new financial input for the American troops in Afghanistan - hosted by Eric Mann

Democracy Needs Whistleblowers

TNI participant(s):

Phyllis Bennis

Where published:

Institute for Policy Studies

Multimedia

She spoke at a rally in Quantico, VA supporting a soldier charged with releasing a video showing the killings of civilians and journalists in Iraq.

Gross Media Negligence

When the mainstream media fails to question the dictates of the powerful or omits the contradictory facts that might lead to a questioning audience, history itself gets rewritten, with dangerous implications for the future.

Why the U.S. won't cut ties with Israel, no matter how extreme its government gets

Israel's defence minister spends much more time in Washington than the nation's pro-"ethnic cleansing" foreign minister; no wonder when the US is committing hundreds of billions of US taxes to Israel's militarization.