A U.S. Soldier Died in Niger. What on Earth Are We Doing There?
When our soldiers kill and die in wars we don’t know about and can’t end, we’re not a democracy anymore.
Is It Time for the US to Pull Out of Iraq and Syria?
Five years after the Arab Spring began, four experts debate a pressing question that remains unsettled on the left.
Empire, Capitalism, and Human Trafficking in Northeast Asia
The crisis of people-trafficking and sexual exploitation in Northeast Asia is not a nationalist issue; it is a gender issue.
Visions: America after Hegemony
The peace movement needs to make it clear not only what we are against, but what we are for.
The Cost of Occupying Planet Earth
Even a conservative estimate of the true costs of garrisoning the globe comes to an annual total of about $170 billion–or maybe even more.
Dumb and Dumber: Obama’s “Smart Power” Foreign Policy
Barack Obama is a smart guy. So why has he spent the last four years executing such a dumb foreign policy?
Send in the Drones
Running the world is a lot of work.
September 11th Didn’t Change the World – September 12th Did
The words of IPS fellow Phyllis Bennis following the attacks of September 11th still resonate today, as we examine not only the attacks from al-Qaeda, but the decision by the U.S. to attack Afghanistan less than a month later.
We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, Since 1776
For now at least, the United States of America rules the Earth militarily.
The Crisis of Humanitarian Intervention
Humanitarian intervention in Libya and elsewhere has led to an intensification of human rights violations, the erosion of the UN’s authority, and the expansion of the reach of great powers.
Tunisia’s Spark and Egypt’s Flame: the Middle East is Rising
The Arab world plays dominoes with empire.
Honoring a Prophet of Empire
In the last year of Chalmers Johnson’s life, the deficit hawks’ bluff got called.
It’s a Shame Chalmers Johnson Did Not Live to See the U.S. Air Base on Okinawa Closed
In the wake of Chalmers Johnson’s passing, we must carry on his crusade to dismantle the American empire.
Imperial Overkill and the Death of U.S. Empire
The United States has gone beyond imperial overstretch, and the result will be self-defeating.
Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Africa
China makes the perfect Cold War villain: communist, aloofly “self-interested,” and rapidly expanding an economic empire. Let’s hope America and China can keep the war cold in what is becoming a heated economic battle for control of Africa.