Once and for all, is the Obama administration nuclear posture review slumped or standing up straight? Here’s a sample of commentators whose insights — from fresh to just plain strange — jumped out at us. (The new START treaty is remarked upon as well.)
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.
Latest Work
Okinawa and Obama’s Base-Based Addiction
Japanese PM Hatoyama tries to sell Okinawa on a modified base relocation plan.
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Arizona Rising
The fight against Arizona’s new immigration law is heating up.
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American Power Act
New energy bill mixes support for coal, nuclear, and oil industries with measures meant to reduce pollution and planet-warming emissions.
Read moreReader Challenge: Is Jerusalem ‘crumbling under the weight of its own idealization’?
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Read moreBaseball Boycott
Senator Menendez is urging Major League Baseball players to protest Arizona’s new immigration law.
Read moreCEOs Tip the Pay Scale
Workers might have to toil for three centuries to earn what their company’s chief executive earns in a year.
Read moreFortress Guam: Resistance to US Military Mega-Buildup
The Department of Defense plans to relocate 8,600 Marines from Okinawa (Japan) to Guam, provide additional live-fire training sites, expand Andersen Air Force Base, create berthing for a nuclear aircraft carrier, and erect a missile defense system on the island.
Read moreBolivia Climate Conference: Indigenous Peoples Design Roadmap to New World
Indigenous peoples from around the world, including Maori from New Zealand and Gwich’in from the far north in Alaska, came to the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth to share their wisdom and set new ground rules to ensure the protection of Mother Earth and the survival of the planet.
Read moreAfghan Escalation Funding: More War, Fewer Jobs, Poor Excuses
Isn’t it time to call what Congress will soon vote on by its right name: war escalation funding?
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Reports
From a Militarized to a Decarbonized Economy: A Case for Conversion
In a new analysis for Costs of War, IPS Associate Fellow Miriam Pemberton lays out a case for a transition from a militarized to a decarbonized economy.
REPORT: New Mexico at a Crossroads: False Solutions or a Just Transition?
How community-led energy solutions can benefit the Land of Enchantment — and the country.
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.