Poet, writer and IPS Board Chair E. Ethelbert Miller will interview IPS Fellow Phyllis Bennis about her life and work. Today, Phyllis is a leading scholar-activist and voice of reason on the Middle East and on the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The MEK has been stranded in Iraq by the United States.
Although you’re unlikely to have read about it in the press, the ongoing health crisis in Fallujah shows that the legacy of the U.S. war in Iraq is far from over.
How to pay for the crisis while making the country more equitable, green, and secure.
A look at the news after the memorialization of 9/11 reveals an America that systematically attempts to erase its fingerprints from world events.
A little-noted energy agenda moving rapidly forward in Afghanistan could exacerbate insecurity and instability, and ensure a prolonged U.S. and foreign military presence.
George W. Bush and the neocons played right into the hands of Osama bin Laden, and we’re paying the economic price today.
“The horrific attacks killed 3,000 people, left hundreds of thousands mourning. But that enormous crime did not – could not – threaten U.S. survival, and it did not destroy U.S. democracy,” said Phyllis Bennis.
Iraq is broken. Who should pay for the damage?
The U.S.-trained Iraqi commando corps — arguably one of the Iraq War’s few success stories — may be misused or dissolved when the U.S. leaves.
Award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill discusses the growing use of mercenaries by the United States government.
There’s a growing bipartisan consensus in favor of a prolonged “residual” occupation of Iraq without any open debate about the merits of this dangerous and expensive plan.
Al-Mutanabbi Street was once the center of literary life in Baghdad. A new project brings the street back to life.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art presents ‘Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here’, a collection of 130 broadsides celebrating our collective cultural voice and representing the deaths and injuries of the March 2007 car bomb on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad.