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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 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.

    Ten years later, who have we become?
    September 2011
    Tom Reifer

    A recommitment to King’s inspired vision might just be the best thing that could ever come out of the horrendous death and destruction of 9/11: a commitment to live, a commitment to love, and a commitment to peace and social justice.

    9/11: a perfect pretext, a terrible legacy
    September 2011
    Mariano Aguirre

    The tragedy of 11 September 2001 was used by authoritarian forces in the United States as a political opportunity.

    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.

    Mubarak behind bars: Human rights and justice
    August 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    Human rights standards may not be met in this trial, but the more essential purpose is to prove there's no going back to the days prior to the Tahrir revolution.

    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.

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