New Internationalism

At the historic One Nation Working Together march, activists made the connection between unemployment and our outsize military budget.

The Obama administration is offering lots of new carrots and a pretty weak stick in hopes of winning just a temporary 60-day extension of Israel’s settlement slow-down.

The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks will almost certainly continue with or without a settlement freeze — but does that really matter?

Millennium Development Rights would transform the global struggle against poverty and provide accountability for governments, corporations, and others who deny those rights.

“International law is not an empty promise” — except apparently for Palestinians.

IPS’ director of the New Internationalism project talks about the supposed end of combat operations.

Phyllis Bennis on Russia Today.

The president did acknowledge the war’s cost…but there were many other important points he left out.

The right-wing mobilization at the core of the Islamic center controversy is about rebuilding political support for the ‘global war on terror.’

Phyllis Bennis spoke at a rally in Quantico, VA supporting a soldier charged with releasing a video showing the killings of civilians and journalists in Iraq.

The country just agreed to let the UN conduct an investigation of the flotilla attack. But don’t get too excited.

The leaks just fill in details of what we already knew: that the Afghan War is too costly to continue.

More meetings on Afghanistan result in nothing new. Let’s tell Congress we’re sick of the vast amounts of money and lives wasted.

Civil society has had some success in the wake of the flotilla attack.

We must maintain the overall pressure to discredit and break the U.S.-backed Israeli blockade and siege of Gaza

As we mourn, we must demand full international accountability, including criminal liability, for the Israeli officials who are responsible for the Flotilla Massacre.

Sanctions don’t work. Diplomacy does.

Behind Karzai’s visit to Washington: A real path to peace will involve a lot more players (and fewer soldiers).

The only ones the Afghan war makes safer are the war profiteers pocketing billion-dollar contracts — and the politicians pocketing campaign contributions in return.

Talking points on the aftermath of Biden’s trip to Israel, the president’s trip to Afghanistan, and the elections in Iraq.