New Internationalism

It’s beautiful that there’s an Olympic team for 82 million displaced people. But have we accepted mass displacement as the new normal?

Pulling out of Israel’s illegal settlements, encouraged by a petition campaign in their home state of Vermont, is consistent with their history — and U.S. public opinion.

Instead of resetting U.S. relations with Iran, Biden has mostly continued the course of aggression set by the Trump Administration.

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.

Congress rarely links poverty to militarism, but that’s about to change.

The new government — if it takes power at all — is united only around ousting Netanyahu. Here’s what that could mean.

Discussing the border in nativist terms obscures the real crises that propel migrants to seek asylum in the United States.

Netanyahu’s political troubles — and an arms industry eager to battle test new wares on Gazans — may help explain the latest escalation of violence.

Phyllis Bennis discusses the latest developments in Jerusalem and Gaza, and the explosion at a girl’s school in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The report reflects the power of decades of work in defense of Palestinian rights.

In his first 100 days, has President Biden fulfilled any of his campaign promises?

Ending the war will take more than bringing home the troops, but it’s a start.

The factors that drive displacement are often complex, but welcoming refugees isn’t.

When the world needed collaboration across borders to control the pandemic, U.S. militarism led to the opposite. We must change course.

The war is a failure. Continuing to wage it will only result in further devastation.

Regardless of who is giving orders to U.S. bombers, we know that deploying U.S. troops, drones, and warplanes across the region does not provide safety or security for anyone.

CounterSpin interview with Phyllis Bennis on ending the Afghan War.

Let’s spend less on supporting vaccine apartheid abroad, and more on ending it at home.

We need a decisive break from the previous century of US policy toward Iran, which has been based on domination.