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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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Trump’s Anti-Islamic Sentiments Extend Beyond The Muslim Ban
Trump the businessman is at war with Trump the ideologue over the question of Islam.
Read moreBlack Workers Are Organizing at Nissan
Sanchioni Butler is organizing where barriers to unionization are the highest.
Read moreA Wake-Up Call For Trump’s Trade Agenda
The investor-state provisions in NAFTA don’t help workers. Instead, they hand enormous power to corporations to bully governments into undoing measures to protect workers, the environment, and public health.
Read more280 Organizations with over 180 million members worldwide tell OceanaGold to abandon lost suit against El Salvador and “Pack Up and Pay Up”
The organisations are demanding OceanaGold pay El Salvador the $8 million an investor-state tribunal ruled they were owed.
Read moreDavid Friedman Reflects Extreme Far Right Forces in Israeli Politics
Trump’s pick for U.S. Ambassador to Israel’s definition of “peace” means Palestinians accepting an apartheid state
Read moreTrump’s Israel Rhetoric Is All Over the Place
Trump’s statements on the Middle East reflect hardline views one day and more conventional ones the next.
Read moreKiller Presidents
From Duterte to Trump, a new crop of populist leaders are reviving a tried and true method of demonstrating leadership — killing people.
Read moreTo Save Main Street, Tax Wall Street
Tax evasion by the wealthiest Americans is drying up our heartland communities and squelching opportunities for our young people.
Read moreWill Trump Complete the Foreign Policy Pivot to Asia?
An attempt at full-spectrum dominance may bankrupt the American economy and irreparably damage the global economy
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