In the second issues of the International Review of Contemporary Law, dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations Charter, Phyllis Bennis writes about the Paris climate talks, the UN, terrorism, and the global war on terror.
Underfunding the IRS helps the very wealthy at the expense of the middle and working class. So why do we do it?
IPS Criminalization of Poverty Project Director Karen Dolan: “Denying voting rights based on criminal records is an egregious affront to the democratic values we espouse in this country.”
The Democracy Spring protests in D.C. are building the power needed to break our politics free of its corporate choke-hold.
For the first event in OUR NEW LOCATION IPS, and the Democracy Collaborative, will host a brownbag talk and signing with authors Robert McChesney and John Nichols to discuss “the fight against a Jobless economy and a citizenless democracy.”
IPS’ Beverly Bell says Cáceres was killed because she was working for a wholly new form of governance in Honduras – true participatory democracy that empowered those who have always been left on the margins.
As millions in Yemen face severe hunger, the United States continues to provide the Saudi invasion with arms
Our campaign finance system isn’t just sending us toward a new Gilded Age — it’s a new Platinum Age.
Celebrate the launch of IPS Associate Fellow Carl LeVan’s new book on “The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria.”
Since the military coup that toppled the country’s elected Muslim Brotherhood government, the message of the many Egyptians we met last year resonates with even greater power.
Football fan clubs have played an unexpectedly powerful political role in Egypt’s revolutionary path.
The peace movement needs to make it clear not only what we are against, but what we are for.
Nuclear weapons and voter ignorance are a lethal mix.
Re-posted with permission from Embassy Magazine: Vancouver-based mining company Pacific Rim is butting heads with the government of El Salvador.
If voters had a way to rank candidates rather than just choose one, it would be good news for politicians like Tim Pawlenty.