Regular folks must pay the price for the decade of excess that politicos lavished on the rich
Read morePeace & 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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We’ve Got Empire Stress Disorder
One day the deficit will force us to bring all those troops home, like it or not.
Read moreHelp Wanted
Help wanted for cheap, disposable labor, or wanted for immediate deportation.
Read moreSocial Forum Moments to Combat Cynicism
Early on at the U.S. Social Forum, I was struck by the disjuncture between the huge ambition of the assembly and the limitations of the conference’s agenda and slate of decentralized workshops.
Read moreThe New Face of U.S.-China Relations: “Strategic Reassurance” or Old-Fashioned Rollback
The Obama administration took office in 2009 determined to move beyond might-makes-right-makes-might unilateralism of the Bush years, and reassert America’s global influence as the most principled and powerful guarantor of rule-based multilateralism.
Read moreTorpedoing Conventional Thinking on the Cheonan
Two respected Korean-American researchers suggest there may have been a rush to judgment on the sinking of the Cheonan.
Read moreReview: ‘I Go to the Ruined Place’
These contemporary poems in defense of global human rights give voice to the dead, the dying, and the degraded.
Read moreShanghai’s Expo Vision
The World Expo in Shanghai showcases the airbrushed future and polarized present in China.
Read moreFinally, a Forum for Victims of the “Wars on Drugs”
Those who most need to hear alternative points of view on drug policies turn a deaf ear to those most affected by them.
Read moreIsrael: Warped Mirrors and White House Sofas
Israel seems to believe that with U.S. elections on the horizon, it’s free to build more settlements.
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