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Bennis: Gaza Under Siege
Znet Article, January, 23 2009
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Gaza has been redefined. Gaza is now synonymous with carnage, rising death tolls, destroyed schools, and city streets slick with blood. As In These Times' February issue went to press, the death toll of Palestinians had passed 750-219 of them chil...
Bennis: The Gaza Crisis: December 2008
Commentary, December, 30 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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Analysis explaining Israeli violations of international law, US complicity, and what should be done now.
Bennis: Detaining the United Nations
Znet Article, December, 23 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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Richard Falk was detained at the airport and denied entry to Israel on December 13, when he arrived in Tel Aviv. The American professor of international law was traveling to the West Bank and Gaza, to fulfill his mandate as the United Nations Spec...
Bennis: UN official calls Israel Apartheid
Video, December, 22 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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President of UN General Assembly urges Israel to be recognized as an Apartheid State.
Bennis: The meaning of Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between US and Iraq
Commentary, December, 05 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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The first problem in examining the SOFA text is that we cannot yet be sure exactly what the text says. The Iraqi parliament is debating one version, that has been translated informally to English for the international press. But we do not yet ha...
Bennis: Bonfires for the global vanities
Znet Article, November, 04 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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A new US administration will provide an opportunity for change, but it will take a powerful, mobilized antiwar movement to hold a new administration accountable to promises made, argues Phyllis Bennis.
Bennis: Getting to the Bottom of the Deceptive, Secretive and Artificial Iraq-U.S. Negotiations
Znet Article, October, 29 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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Whatever the U.S.-Iraqi "agreement" ends up looking like, it is unlikely to have much of an effect on the occupation.
Bennis: Economic Power & Military
Commentary, October, 19 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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As its economic power wanes, does the US lean harder on the military?
Bennis: Mandate for Change Election Series: The Election, War, and Peace
Video, October, 16 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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On October 6 the Institute for Policy Studies held a discussion that probed key issues in foreign policy addressed by the presidential candidates.
Bennis: US Militarism Rising as Elections Loom
Commentary, September, 24 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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As we prepare for the post-election and post-inauguration periods we know, whoever wins, four more years of protest, mobilization, and political pressure will be required.
Bennis: The wall at the end of history
Znet Article, August, 02 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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Beginning around 100 BC, the fabled Silk Road brought goods and travelers from China and Central Asia, through the lands of Persia and Mesopotamia, and over to Palmyra in Syria. One branch of the road then turned south, crossing through Bethany, t...
Bennis: U.S. Strategy In Middle East Under New Pressure: Talks, At Least About Talking, Take Hold
Commentary, July, 25 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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Maliki's endorsement of Obama's withdrawal plan is probably worth all of his trade union, women's organizations and Democratic governors' endorsements together. And it is hardly surprising. Maliki faces growing pressure in the run-up to this fal...
Bennis: U.S. Trying To “Legalize” Permanent Occupation of Iraq
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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In early June the Bush administration intensified its longstanding effort to make the U.S. occupation of Iraq permanent. The first choice was to coerce the U.S.-backed Iraqi government to sign an ostensibly “bilateral” agreement—what the White Hou...
Bennis: U.S. Trying To "Legalize" Permanent Occupation Of Iraq; Shifting Discourse On Israel-Palestine
Commentary, June, 18 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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In recent weeks the Bush administration has intensified its longstanding effort to make the U.S. occupation of Iraq permanent. First choice is to coerce the U.S.-backed Iraqi government to sign an ostensibly "bilateral" agreement - what the White...
Bennis: Middle East Still At War: The U.S. Is Losing But The Winners Are Unclear
Commentary, May, 29 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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This is a period of rapid and dramatic decline of American economic power around the world, and that, along with massive anger directed at U.S. policies around the world, has resulted in a precipitous drop in U.S. diplomatic and political influenc...
Bennis: Middle East Talks in Annapolis: Photo-Op or Talk-Fest
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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There is one thing certain about the international (or regional or bilateral) Middle East peace conference (or meeting or get-together) called by Condoleezza Rice (or George Bush or Elliott Abrams) for November (or maybe December): it's going to b...
Bennis: Pressing Obama On The War: An Exchange
Znet Article, April, 03 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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This is an incredibly important and powerful call. I write as an individual, without connection to IPS or any organization...
Bennis: Iraqi Government Fails In Challenging Al Sadr Militia - "Surge" Failure
Commentary, April, 03 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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The Iraqi government's U.S.-backed offensive that began on March 25 was not designed to go after "criminals" and was not limited to Basra.
Bennis: Winter Soldier: Has Corporate Media Forgotten Iraq?
Video, March, 18 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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On loss of interest in the Iraq war...
Bennis: Iraq War Entering Year Six: Multiple Crises Rising In Middle East
Znet Article, March, 09 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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As the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War approaches amid a renewed rise in violence, once-claimed U.S. regional goals of "democratization," "stability," "freedom" are overwhelmed by violent, anti-democratic, unilateral and militaristic U.S. action...
