New Internationalism

After 20 years of failed U.S. diplomacy some means of moving the debate out of Washington and into the United Nations remains a vital necessity.

Talking to Free Speech Radio News about the implications of the strategic shift in the Palestinians’ bid to join the United Nations as a member-state.

The latest United Nations report on last year’s lethal flotilla incident ignores crucial facts and makes for a sad day for the global rule of law.

September 11 Remembered, U.S. at War Against the World, and the Ongoing Campaign Against Israeli Occupation.

Letter to the Editor: The Post was wrong when it described NATO’s authority in Libya, based on U.N. Resolution 1973, as “protecting civilians from government forces.”

With too many Iraqi deaths and too many tax dollars, it’s still a “dumb war.”

The words of IPS fellow Phyllis Bennis following the attacks of September 11th still resonate today, as we examine not only the attacks from al-Qaeda, but the decision by the U.S. to attack Afghanistan less than a month later.

One month without U.S. military deaths does little to undo the damage of thousands of Iraqu lives lost in this “dumb” war.

NATO intervention goes far beyond UN resolution and sets a dangerous precedent, IPSer argues on this segment on the Real News Network.

Phyllis Bennis on Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech.

This ‘Democracy Now!’ interview focuses on the roles of Transitional National Council, NATO, the United States and international interests in the Libyan Civil War as the conflict moves to Tripoli.

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.

Breaking down the Iraqi governmen’s decision to negotiate with the US military — regarding the previously scheduled December 31st departure date — in a Free Speech Radio news interview.

It is a time to mourn, and also to organize against the wars that depend on this kind of hatred.

Congressman McDermott’s floor speech reminds us that out-of-control Afghanistan spending brought down the Soviet Union.

As DC’s powerful debate the debt crisis, one aspect of our spending is completely absent from the debate: war spending.

The new Secretary of Defense is sounding like a Bush-era diplomat by ramping up his anti-Iran rhetoric and subtly reconnecting Iraq to the attacks on 9/11.

International attention to Turkey’s recent election reflects Ankara’s rising role not only in the Arab Spring but as a newly powerful democracy with broad regional influence.

President Obama passed up an opportunity to recognize our democracy and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people with regards to the Afghanistan War.

PBS NewsHour: President Obama will announce plans for the initial U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan Wednesday. Jeffrey Brown discusses what the president’s options are with retired Army Lt. Col. John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security, author Phyllis Bennis and Brian Katoolis of the Center for American Progess.