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.
How to pay for the crisis while making the country more equitable, green, and secure.
Politicians wage war, rages the poet, but they don’t pay the price.
In war-time, casting aside concern for the fate of your soul when killing is the ultimate sacrifice for your country.
The United States and its allies, Rwanda and Uganda, have played a significant role in the greatest humanitarian crisis at the dawn of the 21st century.
Despite Washington’s newfound war fatigue, there are no signs that U.S. militarism is on the wane.
In Mun Dok-su’s epic poem, a postman travels through the history of war to deliver an important message to humanity.
We have become inured to war.
Margit Berman’s poem about the day the president decided to end the wars.
The attention to military engagement in Libya drowns out the call for negotiations, for accountability, and even for a ceasefire.
The United States can play an important role in dialing back tensions in the disputed waters between North and South Korea, writes columnist Christine Ahn.
There’s a striking similarity between Japan’s reckless decision to attack the United States and George W. Bush’s disastrous decision to invade Iraq.
War and militarism have catastrophic effects on human health and well being.
The worst thing the U.S. military could do in Afghanistan right now is forced eradication of poppies, because it would alienate peasant farmers and drive them into the arms of the Taliban. The farmers will turn to illicit crops to feed their families.
Score for transparency, war makes you poor, and other things that happened while you were obsessing over the LOST finale.