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Znet Article Bennis: Libya's Opposition Calls For A Ceasefire

Znet Article, April, 06 2011 Phyllis Bennis
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The UN Security Council resolution aimed at protecting civilians in Libya started with the call for "the immediate establishment of a ceasefire".

Znet Article Bennis: On Libya: A Response to Juan Cole

Znet Article, March, 29 2011 Phyllis Bennis
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Many thanks, Juan, for your thoughtful article. I agree with a number of your points, but I come out with the opposite conclusion. Let me explain why, going thru some of the points in your piece.

Znet Article Bennis: Libya Intervention Threatens The Arab Spring

Znet Article, March, 24 2011 Phyllis Bennis
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Despite its official UN-granted legality, the credibility of Western military action in Libya is rapidly dwindling.

Znet Article Bennis: Libya And Beyond: What’s Next For Democracy?

Znet Article, February, 26 2011 Phyllis Bennis
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In Egypt, the relatively short-lived military crackdown by the hated security agencies and pro-regime thugs actually strengthened the opposition, reminding the millions in the streets exactly what they were protesting against.

Znet Article Bennis: Obama’s Afghanistan Review

Znet Article, December, 28 2010 Phyllis Bennis
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A whitewash of a disastrous occupation.

Znet Article Bennis: Obama Iraq Policy

Znet Article, September, 11 2010 Phyllis Bennis
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On August 31, President Barack Obama addressed the country from the Oval Office, discussing America's wars and the economy. Obama announced the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq, and suggested that in doing so, he'd kept a promise.

Znet Article Bennis: Can a Security Council 'Coalition of the Unwilling'

Znet Article, May, 23 2010 Phyllis Bennis
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Sanctions that don’t work vs. diplomacy that does

Znet Article Bennis: War Crimes Then And Now

Znet Article, April, 30 2010 Phyllis Bennis
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In an earlier era, in an earlier war, the recent exposés from Iraq and Afghanistan - with their shocking images, appalling laughter, video-game ethos - would have 'shocked the conscience of the nation.' In an earlier era, in an earlier war, when M...

Znet Article Bennis: Ending the US War in Afghanistan

Znet Article, March, 08 2010 Phyllis Bennis
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The recent civilian casualties demonstrate, for any who doubted it, that this is a war against a vast population of Afghanistan, and the only way to stop killing civilians is to stop the killing. That means to stop all offensive actions and withd...

Znet Article Bennis: Afghanistan: This War Won't Work

Znet Article, February, 06 2010 Phyllis Bennis
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Obama's announced troops escalation will not bring security to Afghans, it won't turn Afghanistan into a democracy, and it won't make the US safer.

Znet Article Bennis: Haiti Again

Znet Article, January, 21 2010 Phyllis Bennis
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There's a special kind of horror that comes from watching a human catastrophe escalate in front of our eyes, knowing that for most of us sending money is the only useful thing we can do. I remember seeing the terror of the Rwandan genocide explode...

Znet Article Bennis: Can Talks with Iran Lead to Obama's 'World without Nuclear Weapons'?

Znet Article, November, 12 2009 Phyllis Bennis
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In one key conflict area-Iran-President Barack Obama appears to be keeping, at least for the moment, his campaign commitment to engage rather than threaten, to use diplomacy rather than force. As talks with Iran go forward, hope continues to rise ...

Znet Article Bennis: Gaza Under Siege

Znet Article, January, 23 2009 Phyllis Bennis
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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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Bennis: Iran in the Crosshairs

Znet Article, March, 03 2008 Phyllis Bennis
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Washington watched as 2007 came to a violent and inglorious end. U.S. wars raged in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S.-backed Israeli occupation suffocated Palestinians, U.S.-allied governments in Pakistan and Kenya faced national explosions over false de...

Znet Article Bennis: The 12 Myths of Annapolis

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Phyllis Bennis
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The Annapolis meeting was designed to launch serious new negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians that aimed at ending the occupation and producing a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the region based on a two-state solution.

Znet Article Bennis: Responding to Islamophobia: A Pro-Active Strategy

Znet Article, November, 28 2007 Phyllis Bennis
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The current Islamophobic crusade in the US reflects a deeply rooted racist demonisation of Muslim communities that, if not responded, might consolidate the racist demagoguery as a

Znet Article Bennis: After Petraeus: Congress Bedazzled, The People Betrayed

Znet Article, September, 13 2007 Phyllis Bennis
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For those who didn't hear it already, two of the seven young soldiers on active duty in Iraq who wrote the extraordinarily powerful op-ed in the New York Times condemning the Bush administration strategy and propaganda claims of "success" in the w...

Znet Article Bennis: Why the Anti-War Movement Doesn't Embrace the Iraqi Resistance: A Response to Cockburn

Znet Article, August, 10 2007 Phyllis Bennis
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[This is a response to...

Znet Article Bennis: Bush Launches A New Middle East Initiative.

Znet Article, July, 25 2007 Phyllis Bennis
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Pretty much no one is taking it seriously.  Even mainstream analysts usually willing to take Bush administration Middle East initiatives at face value are rolling their collective eye...

Znet Article Bennis: Is the Right Really Rising Up Against the Iraq Occupation?

Znet Article, July, 20 2007 Phyllis Bennis
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The sudden "surge" of anti-war positions among powerful Republican senators, most recently John ...

Znet Article Bennis: The Bush Veto, Iraq Funding and Permanent Occupation

Znet Article, May, 01 2007 Phyllis Bennis
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The anticipated veto of the Iraq war funding bill demonstrates the extent of White House extremism. Bush is not rejecting a "bring all the troops home and end the war" bill but rather rejecting a compromise bill that would provide $100 billion to ...

Znet Article Bennis: Escalating Threats of U.S. Attacks Against Iran

Znet Article, February, 19 2007 Phyllis Bennis
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Dear friends, four years ago today 12 or 13 million people took to the streets and The World Said 'No' to War.  Today, we continue. We sa...

Znet Article Bennis: Congress: Treat Iran War Like Contras War

Znet Article, February, 08 2007 Phyllis Bennis
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Congress: Treat Iran War Like Contras War

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