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TNI’s Peace and Security Programme brings together cutting-edge analyses of critical conflicts such as the war in Afghanistan and its regional implications, allies itself with a growing international grassroots movement challenging foreign military bases, and is pioneering research on the little-publicised spread of new security infrastructure in Europe and worldwide.

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

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.

African political unity must be more selective: A blueprint for change
William Gumede
 September 2011

There cannot be any clearer illustration of the impotence of Africa’s continental and regional institutions to find local solutions to the continent’s problems, than their numbing inaction in the face of the wave of popular rebellions against dictators in North Africa sweeping across the continent.

 

9/11: Ten years later, who have we become?
Tom Reifer
 September 2011

Ten years and two wars later, Americans face the monetary and psychological costs of both militarism and Wall Street materialism, effectively bankrupting the country; not to mention the casualties of war at home, and in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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

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

9/11 did not start or end at midnight
Richard Falk
 September 2011

All too often 9/11 is viewed from the perspective of the nation-state rather than from a global standpoint.

September 11th Didn't Change the World. September 12th Did
Phyllis Bennis
 September 2011

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.

Staying in Afghanistan: Unending occupation
Ross Eventon
 August 2011

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.

The World's Largest Pyramid Scheme
Boris Kagarlitsky
 August 2011

The United States managed to avert a default, and that is good news. But the partisan battle in Congress sent the stock market plunging, and the decision by Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the country’s credit rating has made matters far worse.

The Crisis of Humanitarian Intervention
Walden Bello
 August 2011

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

The Afghanistan War in the Mirror of the Tet Offensive
Richard Falk
 August 2011

U.S. foreign policy still fails to incorporate the lessons learned from the Tet Offensive. The refusal to admit goals weren't achieved in Afghanistan is frustrating to say the least.

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