Western air and naval strikes against Libya are threatening the Arab Spring. Ironically, one of the reasons many people supported the call…
Libya’s opposition movement faces a ruthless military assault. They have already paid a far higher price in lost and broken lives than…
Today in Libya, civilians are being killed by a besieged and isolated dictator. Libyan warplanes have been used to attack civilians, although…
In Egypt, the relatively short-lived military crackdown by the hated security agencies and pro-regime thugs actually strengthened the opposition, reminding the millions…
Now comes the hard part. On February 7, the popular mobilization in Cairo and elsewhere seemed to have crested. The “normalization” of…
Is this how empires end, with people flooding the streets, demanding the resignation of their leaders and forcing local dictators out? Maybe…
US supported states and regional domination shaken by people's uprisings.
In mid-November, the U.S. offered Israel an incentives package in exchange for a new "settlement freeze" in the occupied West Bank of…
Apparently nothing can happen in the U.S. war in Afghanistan that doesn’t mean good news. If violence rises, it’s because “we’re taking…
Phyllis Bennis is a Senior Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. She is the author of Before and After: US…
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