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The left is profoundly divided over the conflict, but we should at least agree on a set of principles to end it
Phyllis Bennis
Phyllis Bennis is an American writer, activist, and political commentator. She is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Her work concerns US foreign policy issues, particularly involving the Middle East and United Nations (UN). In 2001, she helped found the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace as well as the board of the Afro-Middle East Center in Johannesburg. She works with many anti-war and Palestinian rights organizations, writing and speaking widely across the U.S. and around the world.
Interview on the foreign policy aspects of the second presidential debate
For nine years Mateen worked for G4S Security, a British-based corporation that contracts with the U.S. and Israeli governments for work that often violates human rights on a massive scale
Both Trump and Clinton would pursue militaristic foreign policy with nuanced differences
As refugees take the Olympic stage, the wars that sent them running for their lives continue apace
It shows the limits of party politics—and the necessity of social movements to challenge those limits
U.S.-led military campaigns “against terror” continue to set the stage for more terror attacks, and to create more terrorists, as anger turns to rage
G4S, where Omar Mateen worked as a security guard, profits from both U.S. border militarization and the Israeli occupation
And he called them out fearlessly
Clinton presidency portends a disciplined, ready-on-day-one foreign policy — but one that also happens to be war-based and accountable to longstanding corporate and military powers in the United States