“Why do these uncompromising Republicans want to impose life-threatening austerity on 98% of us?” asks Dolan

On July 27, 2011 scholars from the Institute for Policy Studies, South Korea, and the Washington Peace Center will hold a special discussion on the status of the Korean War Armistice and why a peace treaty to end the Korean War matters today in the context of the current military issues facing East Asia and the overall need for peacebuilding in this region.

The film by Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow Saul Landau, “Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up,” featuring Landau, Danny Glover and Fidel Castro (at age 84), shows how the U.S.-backed violence against Cuba has continued for decades and our government’s unusual obsession with Fidel Castro has led to the unjust conviction of the Cuban 5.

As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke discusses preventing inflation, a new report being released next week calls for restructure of the Fed, bank localization, and more.

On Tuesday, July 12, over 700 people from across the country, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, and national human rights leaders will launch the Caring Across Generations campaign, supported in part by the Institute for Policy Studies.

As hard economic times get harder, many Americans turn to helping each other.

As President Obama asks Republicans to cut “sacred cows” from the budget and make security budget cuts, report discusses ways to shift our security resources.

Phyllis Bennis is available for interviews about President Obama’s speech at the White House this evening on withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

Drug policy analysts and advocates, including Sanho Tree, drug policy scholar and fellow at IPS, to focus on devastating impact on black communities as the Institute of the Black World declares war on the “War on Drugs.”

Unprotected and crowded spent nuclear fuel pools pose an unacceptable threat to the public.

New data reveals enormous amounts of radioactivity stored in vulnerable spent nuclear fuel pools, many of the the same type that contributed to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Congress could raise more than $4 trillion in revenue over the next decade by reversing years of tax giveaways to the richest Americans and largest corporations.

Actions will include a protest in front of the White House at noon.

Peter Bradford, Robert Alvarez, Erich Pica, and Dr. Jeffrey Patterson addressed Japan’s nuclear emergency with the media.

Robert Alvarez is available for interviews about Japan’s nuclear emergency.