Z Needs Your Help!
What’s needed is not more troops, weapons and threats of U.S. bombing, but diplomacy
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.
This is how wars begin
It was a pretty great speech that challenged much of the militarization of post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy—the problem is, like too many great speeches before, it has far too little to do with what the Obama administration actually does
The civil war in Syria grinds on, and conditions for Syrian civilians—those inside its borders as well as the millions forced to flee to neighboring countries—continue to deteriorate
The possibility of a renewed Cold War, longstanding tragedies in the Middle East, and the decline of Israeli influence
President Obama’s State of the Union speech was pretty depressing
The P5+1 (the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and China, facilitated by the European Union) has been engaged in serious…
Responses from Phyllis Bennis, David McReynolds and David Worley to Danny Postel's Critique of the Anti-War Movement Sorry, I beg to differ. …
All of a sudden we’re talking to Iran. Now granted that shouldn’t be such an astonishing bombshell. But given the reality of…
Progressives won big in four arenas over the past two weeks. They played key roles in stopping a military strike on Syria,…