In a move anti-war critics and foreign policy experts are certain to call simply an extension of a policy that has proved a failure, the New York Times reports the Obama administration is planning to build a new military base in the western part of Iraq and send...
A small group of bipartisan congressional lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation calling for the withdrawal of the U.S. military from Iraq and Syria, in a surprise move that could, for the first time, force a real debate on the 10-month-old war on ISIS. …...
After the House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill that gives Congress more power to obstruct a final nuclear deal between world powers and Iran, advocates of diplomacy are saying now is a critical time for people in the U.S. to pressure lawmakers to choose...
Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at Institute for Policy Studies, told Common Dreams that amid the controversy over his visit, the prime minister is facing a growing crisis of international legitimacy. “Luckily Netanyahu has so thoroughly discredited himself that...
… “The response to the speech is more important than the speech itself,” Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at Institute for Policy Studies, told Common Dreams. “The response has shown the divide between U.S. and Israeli policy towards Iran. It has...
“This shows that Congress is not even debating the issue of force,” Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at Institute for Policy Studies, told Common Dreams. “They are simply debating some small questions of limits or not limits.” … According to...
At the invitation of Republican House Speaker John A. Boehner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Washington in March to directly address Congress on Iran, side-stepping the White House in a maneuver that analysts say is aimed at sabotaging...
“Secretary Kerry should keep in mind the words, even if not the deeds, of his president: there is no military solution to the problems caused by ISIS,” said Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, in an interview with Common...
“This is one more piece of evidence, if anyone needed any more, that the Obama Administration has made a decision that the final two years of the Obama presidency will leave behind a legacy of war—not a legacy of ending wars,” said Phyllis Bennis, senior...
President Obama’s comments on Wednesday that U.S. military spending is under threat of “draconian” cuts were met with immediate rebuke from analysts, who say the poor are bearing the brunt of austerity while the war budget remains largely untouched....
“When you look at Iraq, when the U.S. bombs ISIS, the press spin in the U.S. is that we are going after the bad guys. But what people in Iraq see, especially Sunnis, is that the U.S. is weighing in on the side of the Kurds and Shia against Sunnis,” said...
“The resolution is a rhetorical statement, but it makes things really ugly,” Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at Institute for Policy Studies, told Common Dreams. “This resolution says that the elected representatives of the American people are standing...
Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at Institute for Policy Studies, told Common Dreams that the U.S. “no” vote is part of a larger pattern. “The U.S. is the reason why the United Nations is not able to play the role its charter requires, which is to stop...
