Phyllis Bennis tells Al Jazeera English that Netanyahu's rejection of a phased Gaza withdrawal exposes the limits of US pressure that exists only in words — and that as long as weapons and money keep flowing, the genocide continues.
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Al Jazeera English interviews Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, on Netanyahu’s refusal to carry out a phased withdrawal from Gaza as agreed — warning that without real US pressure in the form of cutting arms and military aid, the genocide will continue. “There have been 1,100 people killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes just since the so-called ceasefire deal was passed in October of last year,” Bennis says. “The notion that the genocide is over is simply not the case.”
Newsweek cites National Priorities Project research finding that the federal government plans to spend $268.9 billion on Trump’s mass deportation agenda over his full second term, in a piece featuring a county-by-county map showing how deportation costs break down across the U.S.
The Nation publishes a piece by Julian Castañon Villa, a 2026 Henry A. Wallace Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, arguing that Senator J. William Fulbright’s prescient warnings about militarism and the “imperial presidency” — written decades before the era of forever wars — apply with striking urgency to today’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget and the unauthorized war on Iran.
Al Jazeera English interviews Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, on the surge in Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank, where settlers burned homes and a mosque in the villages of Tel and Kusra. “There is no accountability for Israeli settlers,” Bennis says, adding that the distinction between settlers and the Israeli military is a false one — settlers are armed, trained, and fully supported by the Israeli state using US-provided weapons.
Fortune cites a July 2025 IPS report on the Giving Pledge finding that just one couple among the original 57 signatories has actually given away half their wealth, and that the 32 original U.S. pledgers who are still billionaires have grown roughly 283% richer since signing — labeling the pledge “unfulfilled, unfulfillable, and not our ticket to a fairer, better future.”
Raw Story quotes Sanho Tree, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, responding to Trump’s claim that four soldiers killed in the Iran war died saying they didn’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon — arguing Trump was effectively “using dead soldiers as sock puppets.”
In These Times publishes a piece by Chris Mills Rodrigo, managing editor of Inequality.org at the Institute for Policy Studies, arguing that the federal indictment of 95-year-old former Cuban president Raúl Castro is the latest in a string of escalations — from fuel blockades to aircraft carrier deployments — aimed at building pretext for a U.S. military invasion of Cuba.
Common Dreams cites a recent IPS report finding that the US military’s economic benefits to Hawaiʻi have been significantly overstated, with military demand for housing driving Oʻahu rents up 7.1% in 2024 alone and PFAS cleanup costs at just three military installations potentially reaching into the billions — in an opinion piece examining how RIMPAC 2026, the world’s largest naval war games, is deepening militarization of the Pacific at the expense of local communities.
The Travel cites IPS research in a piece on growing passenger frustration over fare evasion on Amtrak, noting that in most U.S. cities, public transit riders can be charged with a misdemeanor for failure to pay the full fare — a punishment on par with property theft, driving under the influence, or assault.
The Hill quotes Hanna Homestead, research analyst for the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, in a report on how Trump’s faltering Iran peace deal is threatening to derail Congress’s defense spending agenda. “Congress should not greenlight this war by continuing to fund it,” Homestead says. “They should listen to the American people, who want taxpayer dollars to be supporting families at home and not bombing them abroad.”
IPS's research exposes how corporate profiteers exploit the investor state settlement dispute (ISDS) model to stack the odds against communities in Guatemala and elsewhere.
CNBC cites IPS's research that found that most billionaire signers of the Giving Pledge have yet to fulfill their promise to give away most of their wealth.
The New York Times cites IPS's research on how many billionaire Giving Pledge signers have yet to live up to their promise to give away most of their wealth.
“When corporations can get away with shifting their employees’ basic living costs onto taxpayers, this is a form of corporate welfare,” the report said. “It means taxpayers are subsidizing business models based on poverty wages.”
“This is highly unpredictable and so we won’t know the cost of it until it’s over,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, program director of the National Priorities Project at the Institute of Policy Studies, who said the conflict is “not necessary” and is taking away from other policies that could “make life more affordable for Americans."
"Our government should always put the best interests and well-being of children first in any policies, decisions, actions, or activities in which kids are impacted."
An in-depth article in Fast Company highlights IPS’s new report, which analyzes the CEO-worker pay gap at the 20 largest low-wage corporations, and spotlights how many of the workers they…
Más de 50 organizaciones nacionales e internacionales alertaron que la intención del gobierno de volver al CIADI podría facilitar la expansión de proyectos extractivos, la entrega de territorios a las ZEDE y otros megaproyectos, y subordinar decisiones estatales a tribunales internacionales.
