Ukraine’s Future: Like Korea or Yugoslavia?
Will the war turn into a stalemate or the crushing defeat of an imperial power?
Death and Living in the Face of Empire
Julian Aguon’s ‘The Properties of Perpetual Light’ is a thoughtful meditation on how, to understand problems at the center of a colonial society, we have to look at the margins.
The Middle East and North Africa Shouldn’t Be A Playground for Foreign Powers
Foreign powers, and the U.S. in particular, have long been entrenched in the Middle East and North Africa region, either directly or through proxies.
The Widening Rift Between the U.S. and China
Worsening relations between the two largest economies in the world could lead to disaster.
International Issues & Antiwar Forum Series: About Zimbabwe
The Virginia Defender hosts IPS’s Netfa Freeman to help participants become better informed about what the Western Empire led by the U.S. is doing in Zimbabwe.
What Comes After Empire?
Let’s say the U.S. actually curbed its military adventurism, reeled in the Pentagon budget, and closed its global network of bases. Then what?
What Can ‘Star Trek’ Teach Us About American Exceptionalism?
The quintessentially American urge “to boldly go,” regardless of consequence, has gotten humanity into a heap of trouble.
Authoritarian Symps
In the post-Cold War era, the right and even some on the left are playing a new game of “Who’s your favorite dictator?”
Views Roundup with IPS – Immigration Reform, Trayvon Martin, Inequality, Edward Snowden, more
A weekly roundup of what IPS personalities are talking about.
Syria and the Sham of Humanitarian Intervention
Humanitarian intervention has proven to be an even more valuable propaganda tool than the “war on terror.”
Syria: The Threats, the Claims, the Costs, the Lives
What the civil war in Syria and the Arab Spring have exposed is that the massive political and social transformation and real regime change underway is led by the people themselves, largely without military force and certainly with no role for the United States. U.S. military involvement serves only to escalate the destruction.
Visions: America after Hegemony
The peace movement needs to make it clear not only what we are against, but what we are for.
Way Worse Than a Dumb War: Iraq Ten Years Later
The U.S. war in Iraq may be over, but we owe an apology to all those who suffered from the war.
The Real Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was started by imperial jockeying and resolved by genuine diplomacy.
Film: Crisis In The Congo; Uncovering The Truth
Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering The Truth exposes the role that the United States and its allies, Rwanda and Uganda have played in triggering the greatest humanitarian crisis at the dawn of the 21st century. The film locates the Congo crisis in a historical, social and political context. It unveils analysis and prescriptions by leading experts, practitioners, activists and intellectuals that are not normally available to the general public. The film is a call to conscience and action.