Gina Haspel is just the type of status-quo choice that Donald Trump promised not to make.
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Peace & Foreign Policy
To build peace, we must dislodge the economic and political foundations of war. IPS believes that a just foreign policy is based on human rights, international law, and diplomacy over military intervention.
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Two-Faced Trump: Peace in Korea, World War in the Middle East
Trump believes he can simultaneously capture a Nobel Peace Prize for North Korea while leaping toward war with Iran.
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Korea and the Geopolitics of the Impossible
Careful Korean diplomacy, coupled Trump’s desire to do what Obama couldn’t, could mean a rapprochement on the Korean peninsula no one thought possible.
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Far Right Groups Are Stumbling, But Their Rhetoric Is More Mainstream Than Ever
In a sense, the Republican Party has become a much more powerful instrument of white rage than the alt-right.
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Plan to Cut Pentagon Waste Eliminates an Office Designed to Do Just That
Rather than returning the savings to the taxpayers, the plan means to plow those savings back into the Pentagon budget.
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Google Employees are Rejecting Militarism. That’s a Great Sign.
Techies who’ve come of age in a country perpetually at war are saying they don’t want their talents used to kill people.
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There Was Nothing Humanitarian About Our Strikes on Syria
We fired 105 missiles on April 14. That’s 10 times the number of Syrian refugees we’ve taken all year.
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Phyllis Bennis on KPFA discussing Trump
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 Trump reelection nightmare and how we can stop it” with Thomas Frank author of Harper’s April cover story. … This interview originally aired on KPFA’s […]
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Phyllis Bennis on Debating John Bolton and Listening to Syrian Voices
Phyllis Bennis, of the Institute for Policy Studies talks about debating John Bolton, that time he helped the Iraq War happen, the undeserved rehabilitation of George Bush, and the problem with the way people talk about Syria. Quote of the ep: “There are Syrians who are calling for US intervention just as there were some […]
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Trump’s Trade War is About Trump, Not China
Those China tariffs aren’t surprising. What’s bizarre are the people praising Trump’s recklessness and reviving his political fortunes.
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State of Insecurity
The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11
Multilateralism and the Biden Administration
The Biden Administration should help create stronger, more equitable, and more democratic multilateral structures at the international and regional level.
Fact Sheet: Congressional Progressive Caucus Priorities
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has released a bold agenda for 2021. This fact sheet analyzes the implications of these priorities for the American people.
The Pandemic Pivot
Experts from the frontlines of global policy tackle the implications of COVID-19.
Report: No Warming, No War
In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.