It’s Time For a Ceasefire in Ukraine
November 9, 2022 | A ceasefire in Ukraine has been needed since day one—and it’s more urgent now than ever.
Articles by Phyllis Bennis
Americans Must Demand a Credible Investigation Into Shireen Abu Akleh’s Killing
May 23, 2022 | If our tax dollars are furnishing the weapons that kill journalists and other innocents, that’s not just an international crime — it’s against U.S. law, too.
Lessons from NATO’s Last No-Fly Zone
March 29, 2022 | The NATO no-fly zone over Libya caused far more suffering than it prevented. In Ukraine, it would be even worse.
Binary Thinking on Russia’s War on Ukraine Is a Losing Strategy
March 29, 2022 | We need a progressive politics that shows solidarity with all victims of military violence — while resisting the militarism of our own government.
Respond to Putin’s Illegal Invasion of Ukraine with Diplomacy, Not War
February 25, 2022 | There’s no “national interest” worth risking nuclear conflict. But urgent diplomacy and humanitarian aid — and Russia’s own antiwar movement — could stop the suffering.
It’s Settled That Israel Is Committing Apartheid. Now What Should We Do About It?
February 23, 2022 | Movements for justice and Palestinian rights laid the ground for recent declarations by Amnesty International and other human rights organizations. Now we have to follow up.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Internationalist
January 12, 2022 | King looked beyond our borders — not only at injustice, but at how people worked together to end it. It’s an example we need today.
Death and Living in the Face of Empire
September 7, 2021 | Julian Aguon’s ‘The Properties of Perpetual Light’ is a thoughtful meditation on how, to understand problems at the center of a colonial society, we have to look at the margins.
The Triumph and Tragedy of the Olympic Refugee Team
August 4, 2021 | It's beautiful that there's an Olympic team for 82 million displaced people. But have we accepted mass displacement as the new normal?
Ben & Jerry’s Is Carrying On a Proud Tradition of Boycotts for Human Rights
August 4, 2021 | From the Boston Tea Party to the Montgomery bus boycott, an ice cream boycott for Palestinian rights fits right in with social movement history.