New Internationalism

If more registered voters—more young people, more people of color, more poor people, more women, more immigrants and students and workers and activists—had voted, things might be just a bit better. That’s our real challenge.

We stand with the victims of every white-supremacist and racist and anti-Semitic assault back through history.

Trump must decide which is more valuable: protecting profits for U.S. corporations selling arms to the Saudis, or defending against war crimes and human rights violations.

Speaking at the Alworth Center for Peace and Justice, Phyllis Bennis presents on Palestine-Israel, human rights, and the U.S.’s role in the region.

Saudi Arabia’s government is tightly controlled by crown prince Mohammad Bin Salman, making It highly unlikely that a team of ‘rogue killers’ carried out the murder of prominent Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi without his knowledge or approval.

The conversation is still overwhelmingly one-sided. But that’s slowly changing thanks to the hard work of activists.

His record indicates that he would stonewall movements against poverty, militarism, and racism for a generation.

Phyllis Bennis discusses the Trump-led UN Security Council meeting, the impact advisors Pompeo and Bolton are having on U.S. Foreign Policy, and conflict in Palestine. 

When addressing the UN General Assembly, president Trump painted Saudi Arabia and the UAE as “good neighbors” trying to help end a destructive civil war in Yemen. And that wasn’t even the biggest lie in his speech.

He consistently expressed a powerful concern for poverty and human rights—but he often succumbed to US power and domination.

Socialists and other progressives are running for office on strong domestic programs. Here’s how their foreign policy platform can be just as strong.

By cutting funding to UNRWA, Is the U.S. sending a message to Palestinian refugees about their right to return home?

Israel faces backlash for essentially legalizing apartheid.

A solution that sees the U.S. and Russia brokering a deal while leaving Syrians out of discussions is not a viable, long-term solution. So, what is?

UNRWA isn’t just providing food aid, medical care, and education to Palestinians across the Middle East. For many Palestinian refugees, it can be the difference between life and death.

Leaked details from the plan reveal that Palestinian voices don’t matter.

Soldiers, civilians, and the 140 million Americans who are poor or low-income pay the price for our never-ending wars.

To mark the anniversary of the 1948 War and subsequent uprooting and mass displacement of Palestinians, known in Arabic as Al-Nakba (the Catastrophe), the Committee will convene the UN Forum on the Question of Palestine “70 Years after 1948 – Lessons to Achieve a Sustainable Peace.”

The Gaza massacre is a war crime. And the United States is complicit alongside Israel.

In the first hour “War Made Easy in the Middle East” with Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; ips-dc.org. In the second hour “Four More Years: The […]