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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.
Almost one year from President Bush’s announcement of the end of ‘major combat operations’ in Iraq, the U.S. drive towards empire faces…
The assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin marks a serious escalation in Israeli occupation tactics. While Israel had (in earlier assassination attempts) already…
The signing of the interim Iraqi ‘constitution’ by the Governing Council represents a significant step in U.S. efforts to legitimize its invasion…
The U.S. is eager for the UN to return to Iraq to provide political cover for its occupation. The quagmire on the…
* Bush’s speech was about politics not policies, driven by electoral concerns. It reflected a far-right agenda designed to appeal to the…
The “Geneva Accord” drafted and signed by Palestinian and Israeli negotiators acting in their private capacity has received extensive international attention. The…
Facing the most serious escalation in U.S. casualties in Iraq, with the New York Times proclaiming “Iraq Policy in Crisis,” and with…
The international donors meeting beginning in Madrid on Thursday, 23 October, will not come close to meeting Washington’s original goals. Initially called…
The U.S.-driven UN resolution about to be passed by the Security Council provides only an internationalist fig-leaf for Washington’s occupation; the occupation…