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Znet Article Bennis: TALKING POINTS ON THE EXECUTION OF SADDAM HUSSEIN

Znet Article, December, 31 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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 1)   The execution of Saddam Hussein was not Nuremberg.  Despite their flaws, the Nuremberg tribunals for the first...

Znet Article Bennis: The Baker-Hamilton Iraq Recommendations

Znet Article, December, 03 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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According to the New York Times and Washington Post leaked versions of the Iraq Study Group's consensus position (Nov. 29 and 30), their recommendations will tinker around the edges of Bush's strategy, but not propose a wholesale alteration, let a...

Znet Article Bennis: Just Say No to War in Iran

Znet Article, October, 09 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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A new U.S. intelligence report, representing the consensus of all 16 intelligence agencies, comes to the same conclusion many have known for a long time: The Iraq War isn’t making us safer. It’s putting us all at greater risk. It's...

Znet Article Bennis: The Lebanon War and the Failed UN Resolution

Znet Article, August, 10 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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The draft resolution on the Lebanon crisis to be discussed by the UN Security Council this week is very much Washington's resolution. The draft does not call for a ceasefire; it is qualitatively discriminatory between the two sides; it has already...

Znet Article Bennis: Washington's Latest Middle East War

Znet Article, July, 31 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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The Israeli war against Lebanon and Palestine, euphemistically depicted as "self-defense" against Hezbollah and Hamas, is simultaneously an Israeli war for domination, and a regional war to "remap" the contemporary Middle East. In this context it ...

Znet Article Bennis: The Gaza/Lebanon Crises: Escalating Occupation & Danger of New Border Fighting

Znet Article, July, 17 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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" The Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip constitute collective punishment of the entire Gazan population, and have created a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented proportions in Gaza. " All these attacks violate the Fourth Geneva Convention, which ...

Znet Article Bennis: Iran: Bush Isolated, Under Pressure,

Znet Article, June, 07 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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**  The Bush administration's "offer" to join direct talks with Iran reflects Washington's international isolation on the Iran issue; the offer itself is simultaneously very significant and entirely fake.**  The U.S. is still trying to ratchet up ...

Znet Article Bennis: Palestine: Israel's Olmert Comes to Washington,

Znet Article, May, 31 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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Palestine: Israel's Olmert Comes to Washington,

Znet Article Bennis: Palestine: Israel's Olmert Comes to Washington

Znet Article, May, 31 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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**  Bush capped Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's visit to Washington with a cautious endorsement of Israel's plan for annexation of large swathes of Palestinian territory including major settlement blocs and about 80% of Israeli settlers in the West B...

Znet Article Bennis: Thinking Strategically

Znet Article, April, 06 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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 As a movement we have been extraordinarily successful in achieving our initial goal: we have helped transform public opinion to the now almost 2/3 majority opposition to the war in Iraq. Our task now is to transform that consciousness into empowe...

Znet Article Bennis: New War Dangers

Znet Article, March, 17 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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**  Escalating rhetoric, continued losses in Iraq, Bush's political problems, and an ideologically-driven pursuit of power make the possibility of a U.S. military attack on Iran - however reckless and however dangerous its consequences - a frighte...

Znet Article Bennis: The Samarra Bombing and its Aftermath: A New Face on the Civil War?

Znet Article, February, 28 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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The Samarra Bombing and its Aftermath: A New Face on the Civil War?

Znet Article Bennis: Ending Occupation

Znet Article, January, 13 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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*** The peace movement in the U.S. and globally has helped create the growing public consensus and rising demands to end the war and bring home the troops. The Bush administration is responding with escalating claims of Potemkin-style troop with...

Znet Article Bennis: The Little Town of Bethlehem

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 Phyllis Bennis
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The little town of Bethlehem isn't just still, it's dying.  On the eve of Christmas the Palestinian city is walled off, hemmed in, and virtually empty of tourists or visitors.  Manger Square is barren, the few sad-looking Christmas stalls unfini...

Znet Article Bennis: Bush Administration on the Skids in Iraq, Palestine, at Home

Znet Article, November, 19 2005 Phyllis Bennis
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he Bush administration's increasingly vitriolic and hostile attacks on anti-war and even war-questioning Democrats and others reflects stronger opposition at home and abroad as well as the beginning of the collapse of Bush's last pretext for war -...

Znet Article Bennis: THE IRAQI CONSTITUTION

Znet Article, October, 13 2005 Phyllis Bennis
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** The constitutional process culminating in Saturday's referendum is not a sign of Iraqi sovereignty and democracy taking hold, but rather a consolidation of U.S. influence and control. Whether Iraq's draft constitution is approved or rejected, t...

Znet Article Bennis: A Prize And A Warning

Znet Article, October, 12 2005 Phyllis Bennis
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A Prize And A Warning

Znet Article Bennis: A Declaration Of War

Znet Article, September, 04 2005 Phyllis Bennis
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The Bush administration has declared war on the world.  The 450 changes that Washington is demanding to the action agenda that will culminate at the September 2005 ...

Znet Article Bennis: Bush Sends John Bolton to the United Nations

Znet Article, August, 09 2005 Phyllis Bennis
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President George W. Bush, relying on an emergency constitutional provision designed for a mid-1700s era when congress met for only a few months each year and it took six months to get from anywhere to anywhere, used the Senates summer recess to ap...

Znet Article Bennis: Disengagement?

Znet Article, July, 27 2005 Phyllis Bennis
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** Israel has a unilateral obligation to withdraw its troops and settlers and end its occupation of Gaza as well as of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. But the Gaza "disengagement" is not designed to, and will not result in an end to occupation. ...

Znet Article Bennis: Tipping Point

Znet Article, June, 28 2005 Phyllis Bennis
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Anti-war organizing that began within days of September 11th and kicked into high gear in the run-up to Bush's war in Iraq is paying off.  In the last two or three weeks, sparked by the Downing Street Memo, but grounded in years of careful and int...

Znet Article Bennis: Reading the Elections

Znet Article, February, 02 2005 Phyllis Bennis
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The millions of Iraqis who came out for the elections were voting their hopes for an end to violence and occupation, and a better life; their hopes are not likely to be met. George Bush will be the major victor in this election, using it to claim...

Znet Article Bennis: Iraqi Elections

Znet Article, December, 20 2004 Phyllis Bennis
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Do we support the planned Iraqi elections? We start from a position of principle. We support elections as one component of democratization. But not every election is a legitimate instrument of democracy. An election cannot be legitimate when it is...

Znet Article Bennis: US Attacks UN

Znet Article, December, 10 2004 Phyllis Bennis
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NOTE: Rumors are circulating regarding the possible replacement for Bush's UN ambassador, John Danforth, who resigned last week. Selection of Nicholas Burns, current ambassador to NATO and a smart hold-over from the Clinton years, would likely sig...

Znet Article Bennis: Post-Election Disasters

Znet Article, November, 18 2004 Phyllis Bennis
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FALLUJAH - The U.S. Marines' on-camera killing of an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner inside a mosque has escalated the visibility of the humanitarian catastrophe and the crisis of international illegality inherent in the Fallujah assault. Wha...

Znet Article Bennis: Eve of Elections Talking Points

Znet Article, November, 01 2004 Phyllis Bennis
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As the election count-down goes into its final days, new evidence has come to the fore of just how high is the actual cost of the Iraq war and the administration's disastrous Middle East policy. According to a new report by the Johns Hopkins Sch...

Znet Article Bennis: DEBATES, DUELFER, & ALUMINUM TUBES

Znet Article, October, 08 2004 Phyllis Bennis
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THE DEBATES The debates remind us first of the need to maintain and build a broad, powerful, and INDEPENDENT peace movement, not tied to any candidate. Whoever wins or steals the election, we will likely spend much of the next four years in the...

Znet Article Bennis: The Other America

Znet Article, September, 28 2004 Phyllis Bennis
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Phyllis Bennis is a leading analyst and writer on the Middle East, the war in Iraq, the United Nations, and on U.S. foreign policy. She is a long-time activist, and works closely with United for Peace and Justice and the U.S. Campaign to End the...

Znet Article Bennis: An Appeal For The Release The Italian And Iraqi Aid Workers Abducted In Baghdad

Znet Article, September, 09 2004 Phyllis Bennis
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Dear friends, as many of you already know, two Italian and two Iraqi humanitarian workers affiliated with A Bridge to Baghdad and another Italian NGO, were kidnapped in Baghdad yesterday. Many who have been working against sanctions in Iraq and ...

Znet Article Bennis: The Coalition Unravels

Znet Article, July, 20 2004 Phyllis Bennis
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While U.S. media attention has decreased significantly in the weeks since the June 28 so-called "hand-over of sover...

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