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President Joe Biden, to his credit, did not come out swaggering at his press conference announcing that the CIA had just killed…
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.
If our tax dollars are furnishing the weapons that kill journalists and other innocents, that’s not just an international crime—it’s against U.S. law, too
Rather than cheering for a potentially catastrophic escalation, there are other options for the United States to help the Ukrainian people
“The cost on civilian lives is horrific”
There’s no “national interest” worth risking nuclear conflict. But urgent diplomacy and humanitarian aid — and Russia’s own antiwar movement — could stop the suffering
President Biden was right to withdraw US troops. But we should have no illusion that this will end the war for Afghans
It’s beautiful that there’s an Olympic team for 82 million displaced people. But have we accepted mass displacement as the new normal?
The human and economic costs of Donald Rumsfeld’s wars are staggering
Some in Washington may be so glad to be rid of Netanyahu that they’ll welcome his even more hardline successor
After two decades of skyrocketing military budgets and a failed “war on terror” undermining human lives and rights, transformations are desperately needed