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Bennis criticizes US policy in Middle East
“U.S. policies in the Middle East have made the situations there worse, not better, and the U.S. should end its military activities in Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and elsewhere, according to…
Unsealed Documents Show Pinochet ‘Directly’ Involved in Capitol Hill Assassinations
Loved ones have long charged that U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet had a direct hand in the 1976 assassination of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his Institute for Policy Studies…
The U.S. Has a Duty to the ‘Tempest-Tost’ Syrians
The United States has a moral obligation, and perhaps a legal one, to accept many of the Syrian refugees. Evolving international norms suggest that all the countries of the world…
Russian Aggression Complicates Obama’s Options in Syria
Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, said she sees potential hope in the messages Obama and Putin delivered to the United Nations General Assembly last month.…
Thanks to Sanders, Democratic Party Just Debated Merits of Capitalism
While direct criticism of capitalism in mainstream politics is not unheard of in U.S. history, it is unusual for modern times. “From the late 1970s to fairly recently, this was…
Lessons of Iraq Loom Over Obama’s Decision to Keep Troops in Afghanistan
… Security analysts said the new plan may be just enough to preserve the status quo. “Keeping 5,000 U.S. forces in Afghanistan with a training and direct action mission may…
Hunting dictators and helping prisoners: Human rights award winners reflect on the sources of their passion
It was a tale of two galas Tuesday night, of causes and consequences: At the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel, the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts celebrated artists and media-makers for…
37 Whistleblowers You Can Follow On Twitter
Edward Snowden joined Twitter on September 29 and already has 1.37 million followers and counting. Just seven tweets by the famed NSA whistleblower almost immediately prompted George Pataki to call…
And Still I Rise: Giving Workers a Voice Through Organizing
Leading up to the White House Summit on Worker Voice, I had the chance to sit down with two women who are making an impact in their communities as part…
More Than a Dozen Environmental Organizations Warn of Trans-Pacific Partnership Risks
On October 5, after more than 5 years of closed-door negotiations, the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations finally reached an agreement on the increasingly controversial and unpopular…
Activists meet to discuss reinvesting in Baltimore
Morgan State University professor Lawrence Brown didn’t mince words. “Congratulations, you are in the very home of racial zoning: Baltimore, Maryland,” he said to a room of about 300 community…
As Wealth Inequality Soars, One City Shows the Way
Tom Christopulos steers a black Nissan Armada through the sharply angled streets of Ogden, Utah, a historic metropolis about 35 miles north of Salt Lake City lodged at the base…
Pope Francis Has A Big To-Do List For World Leaders
Pope Francis called on world leaders Friday to take real and immediate action to address a long list of issues posing a threat to humanity, including environmental destruction, global poverty,…
War Hawk Petraeus Comes Out Of Retirement to Recommend Pouring Fuel on Syria’s Fire
As the Obama administration’s policies of regime change and armed intervention in Syria flounder, the retired general who oversaw the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan added his voice to…
Rogue States and Diplomacy: a Conversation With Noam Chomsky
On September 2, the United States’ support for the Iran nuclear deal was secured. President Barack Obama’s team negotiated the deal along with other countries of the P5+1 (China, France,…
Activists Urge UN to Independently Investigate Alleged War Crimes in Sri Lanka
As the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) opens its 30th session in Geneva this week, 62 leading human rights activists have signed an open letter calling on the world…
Phyllis Bennis: ISIS Is Filling The Holes Left By The US War On Terror
ISIS is not a guerrilla organization that popped up out of nowhere, figured out how to hold onto territory, and take on the Iraqi and Syrian armies all by themselves,…
This Man Made $21 Million Last Year By Ignoring Climate Change
Could the global warming crisis be solved if fossil fuel executives were just paid less? Well, sort of. A new study points out that not only do executives of the…
As Iran Deal Nabs Necessary Votes, ‘War Criminal’ Cheney Shouted Down in DC
The nuclear agreement between the U.S., Iran, and other world powers cleared an important congressional hurdle in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, but don’t expect former vice president Dick Cheney to…
Study Says Insane CEO Pay is Fueling Climate Change
THERE ARE ANY number of causes for climate change—some natural, some man-made. But a new report by the liberal think tank Institute for Policy Studies points to a distinctly economic…
Fossil Fuel CEOs Bonus Pay Helps Sink the Climate, Report Says
A report released Wednesday examining the pay practices of the 30 largest publicly held U.S. oil, gas, and coal companies concluded that pay incentives for the companies’ chief executives encourages reckless…
Fossil fuel bosses’ soaring pay may spell trouble for the climate – and their firms
Anyone who watched the shenanigans on Wall Street in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis couldn’t have been left with much doubt: poorly designed compensation policies that…
Fossil Fuel Execs Have Little Financial Incentive To Fight Climate Change, Report Says
Marathon Oil Corp. CEO Lee Tillman took home a $1.7 million bonus last year, in part because of the company’s expansion into the Texas and North Dakota shale formations. Meanwhile,…
Fossil fuel CEOs are making an outrageous amount of money as a reward for destroying the planet
The executives at the helms of the 30 biggest oil, gas and coal companies in the United States took home a collective $6 billion in compensation over the past five…
The Coal Industry Is Hurting, But Its Execs Are Still Getting Raises
The coal industry has had a rough time in recent years. Between late 2010 and the end of 2014, the top ten publicly-traded coal companies saw their combined share price…
Fossil Fuel Execs Made Twice As Much As U.S. Pledged To Help Fight Climate Change Overseas
The top executives at the largest publicly held fossil fuel companies in the United States have made nearly $6 billion in the last five years — enough to double the…
Meet the young people who spent their summer obsessing over student debt
For most college students and 20-somethings, summer is a time to earn some extra cash as a life guard or ice cream scooper, build their resume doing grunt work at…
Group blames CEO pay for climate change
A liberal think tank is arguing that high executive salaries at fossil fuel companies are contributing to climate change. In a Wednesday report, the Institute for Policy Studies says that…
Fossil Fuel Execs Made Twice As Much As U.S. Pledged To Help Fight Climate Change Overseas
The top executives at the largest publicly held fossil fuel companies in the United States have made nearly $6 billion in the last five years — enough to double the…
Fat cat pay at fossil fuel companies drives climate crisis – report
Executive pay at fossil fuel companies rewards corporate behavior that deepens the climate crisis, and offers no incentive to shift towards renewable energy, a Washington thinktank said on Wednesday. Executives…
