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January 16, 2008
Will Dems Follow Through on Promises to Fix NAFTA?, by fellow Sarah Anderson on AlterNet

January 9, 2008
Iraq Outlook 2008, by research fellow Erik Leaver in Foreign Policy In Focus.

January 8, 2008
Video: Rule Britannia and America, features Phyllis Bennis taking on Walter Russell Mead's claim of U.S. and British power having "made" the modern world on The Agenda with Steve Paikin, an Ontario public television program.

A Green Bulldozer?
by FPIF co-director John Feffer in the Korea Times.

Reflections: 60 Years of Empire
, by fellow Saul Landau in the Progreso Weekly.

January 1, 2008
Defense Dollars IPS research fellow Miriam Pemberton publishes a lengthy letter to the editor in Foreign Affairs.

Audio: Africa Outlook features FPIF co-director Emira Woods on NPR's News & Notes. Woods is a regular contributor to this show.

December 31, 2007
The Poetics of Botero's Abu Ghraib Paintings, an interview with Rose Marie Berger and Joseph Ross by IPS chairperson E. Ethelbert Miller, in Foreign Policy In Focus

Music to Save the World, by IPS Movements Coordinator Saif Rahman, in Foreign Policy In Focus

The Shadow of Vietnam by FPIF co-director John Feffer in Internationale Politik’s Winter 2007 issue reviews two books comparing the wars in Iraq and Vietnam.

December 27, 2007
What Darwin Teaches Us About the Drug War, by IPS fellow Sanho Tree in AlterNet and CommonDreams

December 24, 2007
What Doug Feith Taught Me About Decision-Making, by research associate Joshua F. String in Foreign Policy In Focus

December 19, 2007
Spreading the Word, by FPIF co-director John Feffer in Foreign Policy In Focus

December 16, 2007
Analyzing Zimbabwe's Crises by SALSA director Netfa Freeman in the Black Star News

December 14, 2007
Midwest City Fights Back Against Iran War-Mongering by research fellow Erik Leaver in Alternet

December 13, 2007
Video: Is the CIA trying to undermine the White House? features fellow Phyllis Bennis on The Real News

A Return to Diversity in the Balkans?
by FPIF co-director John Feffer in The American Prospect

Second letter from Europe by fellow Saul Landau in the Progreso Weekly

The Paradox of East Asian Peace, by FPIF co-director John Feffer in Foreign Policy In Focus.

December 12, 2007
Hoodwinked in Bali on Carbon Credits by SEEN co-director Daphne Wysham in The Nation, as featured in CBS News

Ecuador Declines US, Offers Manta Air Base to China quotes fellow Sanho Tree in Toward Freedom

December 11, 2007
Africa presses demand for Security Council seats quotes FPIF co-director Emira Woods in FinalCall.com News

December 8, 2007
The Ruins of Empire by Saul Landau in Counterpunch

December 7, 2007
Why We Need A War On Greed cites IPS' Executive Excess 2007 report in the Huffinton Post blog

Audio: Radio Netherlands: Iran Does Not Have Nuclear Weapons features fellow Phyllis Bennis in The Shortwave Report

December 6, 2007
Iraq's Civil Resistance quotes fellow Phyllis Bennis in The Nation

December 5, 2007
CEO comp-consultant ‘conflicts’ slammed by Congress cites IPS' Executive Excess 2007 report in the Financial Week

December 3, 2007
Bush-Maliki Agreement Defies US Laws quotes research fellow Erik Leaver in Truthout

Rational expectations cites IPS' Bali Call in the Grist blog

The 12 Myths of Annapolis by fellow Phyllis Bennis in Znet

December 1, 2007
Taking a stand quotes fellow Sanho Tree in the Maine Morning Sentinel

November 29, 2007
World AIDS Day: Ideology Trumping Health, U.S. Activists Say quotes FPIF co-director Emira Woods in the Inter Press Service

In Colo., small biz is small pay
cites IPS' Executive Excess 2007 report in the Denver Post

CEOs, hedge-fund managers and the average worker
cites IPS' Executive Excess 2007 report in the Chico News & Review

November 26, 2007
Audio & Transcript: Leaders Gather in Annapolis for U.S.-Sponsored Middle East Summit, Hamas Not Invited features fellow Phyllis Bennis on Democracy Now!

November 23, 2007
What Happy Thanksgiving by SALSA director Netfa Freeman in the Black Star News

November 25, 2007
Rice's legacy on the line at Annapolis conference quotes fellow Phyllis Bennis in the Baltimore Sun

November 20, 2007
Wal-Mart’s New Greenwashing Report by Global Economy director Sarah Anderson in Alternet

Postcard From... Pusan by FPIF co-director John Feffer

November 19, 2007
Warren Buffett to Congress: Keep Taxing the Mega-Rich by senior scholar Chuck Collins in Alternet

November 17, 2007
Middle East Talks in Annapolis: Photo-Op or Talk-Fest, Talking Points #54 by fellow Phyllis Bennis in Znet

Zenawi's Somalia invasion failed interviews senior scholar Bill Fletcher in Biddho.com Eritrea

November 15, 2007
Wal-Mart Releases Major Report On Environmental Efforts quotes Global Economy director Sarah Anderson in CNNMoney.com

Deregulating the American Dream
by associate fellow Sam Pizzigati in Alternet

November 14, 2007
Estate tax is fairest means of building revenue by senior scholar Chuck Collins and Bill Gates, Sr. in The Politico

Slip Sliding Away quotes research fellow Erik Leaver in Counterpunch

November 13, 2007
Baucus and Kyl Resurrect Estate Tax Debate quotes senior scholar Chuck Collins in the Congressional Quarterly

Audio: Africa Update: Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan interviews senior scholar Bill Fletcher in NRP's News & Notes

November 12, 2007
Executive Excess on Capitol Hill quotes Executive Excess 2006 in The Nation

November 11, 2007
Just Say No To Drugs... er, um, Violence by movements coordinator Saif Rahman in the MovementVisionLab blog

November 10, 2007
Thoughts on the Jena 6 Mobilization and New Movements by senior scholar Bill Fletcher in Znet

November 8, 2007
14 Months of Danger co-authored by senior scholar Marcus Raskin in TomPaine.com

Nigeria: U.S. Congress Hears Case on Debt Cancellation and Africa: Jubilee Act Vital for African Development cover the congressional testimony of FPIF co-director Emira Woods in allAfrica.com

November 7, 2007
A Story Ignored: Body Armor Executive Indicted for Massive Fraud quotes Executive Excess 2007(PDF) in the Huffington Post blog

Putting Foreign Policy in a Domestic Focus by research associate Joshua F. String in Foreign Policy In Focus

November 6, 2007
Audio: Africa Update: Women & Leadership by FPIF co-director Emira Woods on NPR's News & Notes

November 4, 2007
Latin America's New Petro-Politics by SEEN co-director Nadia Martinez in Petroleum World

November 2, 2007
How Pete Stark Became a Pariah by fellow Saul Landau in CounterPunch

November 1, 2007
A Disciplined Defense cites A Unified Security Budget FY 2008(PDF) in Foreign Affairs Magazine

October 30, 2007
Video: CEO Pay Debate features Global Economy director Sarah Anderson on FOX Business

Cashing In on Terror cites Executive Excess 2007(PDF) in Truthdig

October 29, 2007
Security Upgrades at Several Nuclear Sites Are Lagging, Auditors Find cites fellow Robert Alvarez in The New York Times

October 26, 2007
One Down: Obscenely Decadent War Profiteer Hauled Off in Handcuffs by Global Economy director Sarah Anderson in Alternet

Bush Reveals Plan Mexico, Proposes $1.5 Billion Anti-Drug Aid Package quotes fellow Sanho Tree in the Drug War Chronicle.

October 24, 2007
Is a 'North American Union' in the future? quotes associate fellow Manuel Perez Rocha in The Arizona Republic

October 23, 2007
Postcard from... Colombia by fellow Sanho Tree in Foreign Policy In Focus

October 22, 2007
Colombian Senator Honored for Anti-Corruption Probes features 2007 Letelier-Moffitt Award recipient Sen. Gustavo Petro

October 18, 2007
Big Red Checkbook by FPIF co-director John Feffer in The Nation

October 17, 2007
The Sky's No Limit for CEO Perks cites Executive Excess 2007(PDF) in MSN Money

October 16, 2007
Audio: Africa Update: Africa Ready for AFRICOM? features FPIF co-director Emira Woods on NPR's News & Notes

Privatization, the Lotto, and You by senior organizer and research associate Dedrick Muhummad in the Inequality.org blog

Interview with Edwidge Danticat
by board chair E. Ethelbert Miller in Foreign Policy In Focus

Global Tastes by FPIF co-director John Feffer in Foreign Policy In Focus

October 15, 2007
Responding to Islamophobia: A Pro-Active Strategy, Talking Points #53 by fellow Phyllis Bennis

October 14, 2007
David and Goliath in Iraq by senior fellow Saul Landau in Progreso Weekly

October 12, 2007
Ich bin ein Berliner (That goes for you too) cites IPS co-authored report Executive Excess 2005(PDF) in Atlantic Free Press

October 9, 2007
Is Bolivia Cozying Up to Iran? quotes SEEN co-director Nadia Martinez in Time Magazine

October 8, 2007
Trickle-Up Economics: New Report Reveals Staggering Global Wealth Concentration by associate fellow Sam Pizzigati in AlterNet

October 6 , 2007
A River Runs Through It by senior fellow Saul Landau in Counter Punch

October 5 , 2007
Summit Signals New Regional Order by FPIF co-director John Feffer in Korea Times

October 3, 2007
White House: U.S. Cocaine Supplies Decline while Prices Soar quotes fellow Sanho Tree in St. Petersburg Times

October 2, 2007
Video: Where Does the Bush-Petraeus Strategy Lead? fellow Phyllis Bennis interviewed on The Real News

Bolivia's Evo Morales Wins Hearts and Minds in US cites the IPS co-authored report Challenging Corporate Investor Rule(PDF) in Common Dreams

The Invitations a Party Refuses senior organizer and research associate Dedrick Muhammad blogs in Inequality

October 1, 2007
Video: South Korean & North Korean Summit FPIF co-director John Feffer is interviewed on CNBC

September 29, 2007
Ending War for Profit Sarah Anderson discusses the the IPS co-authored report Executive Excess 2007(PDF) in The Nation

What Meaneth Black Suffering? by associate fellow Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou in Fellowship of Reconciliation

September 24, 2007
Same Flak, Less Pay Abroad cites the IPS co-authored report Executive Excess 2007(PDF) in Financial Week

The Art of Anti-War by FPIF co-director John Feffer in Asia Times

Filming Fidel A Cuban Diary, 1968 by senior fellow Saul Landau in Monthly Review

It's Good to be the Boss cites the IPS co-authored report Executive Excess 2007(PDF) in Akron Beacon Journal

September 20, 2007
The Jena 6 senior organizer and research associate Dedrick Muhammad blogs in Inequality

September 19, 2007
War Means a Windfall for CEOs quotes fellow Sarah Anderson and cites the IPS co-authored report Executive Excess 2007(PDF) in MSN Money

Groups Urge New Drive to Fight Oil-Climate Crisis cites the IPS co-publised reports The False Promise of BiofuelsPDF and Manifesto on Global Economic TransitionsPDF in OneWorld

September 18, 2007
Venture Capitalists Hope to Kill Tax Hike cites the IPS co-authored report Executive Excess 2007(PDF) in Politico

The Irrational Drama of a Declining Empire by senior fellow Saul Landau in Just International

September 14, 2007
Annotate This... President Bush's Sept 13 Speech to the Nation on Iraq by FPIF Middle East Editor Stephen Zunes and IPS' Carol and Ed Newman Fellow Erik Leaver

CEOs Deserve Their Pay cites the IPS co-authored report Executive Excess 2007(PDF) in The Wall Street Journal

Audio: On the Petraeus Report fellow Phyllis Bennis is interviewed on Counter Spin

September 13, 2007
After Petraeus: Congress Bedazzled, The People Betrayed Talking Points #52 by fellow Phyllis Bennis

Out of the Toilet Stalls – New Republican Rallying Cry by senior fellow Saul Landau in Progreso Weekly

September 12, 2007
As We Stand on the Brink of Catastrophe, Bio-Fuels are no Magic Bullet by Debi Barker and Jerry Mander in AlterNet

Rev. Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus and the Institute for Policy Studies discuss his arrest yesterday, outside of a House of Representatives hearing room before the testimony of Gen. Petraeus.

Are Corporate Titans Really Worth the Billions They Suck In? co-written by fellow Sarah Anderson in Alternet

Burning the Ships? Iran and the United States
by FPIF analyst Nathan Gonzalez in Foreign Policy In Focus

September 11, 2007
The People's Report cites UFPJ's Iraq: The People's ReportPDF in Znet

September 10, 2007
From Gonzo to Pottygate by senior fellow Saul Landau in Counter Punch

Screwing Up In Iraq
by senior fellow Saul Landau and Melman fellow Farrah Hassen in Counter Punch

September 6, 2007
Beyond 'Green Shopping' by Jerry Mander and John Cavanagh in The Nation

The Irrational Drama of Declining Empire by senior fellow Saul Landau in Progreso Weekly

September 3, 2007
Audio: The War Comes Home fellow Phyllis Bennis is interviewed on The Morning Show

August 30, 2007
The best the U.S. can do? - Review of “No End in Sight” by senior fellow Saul Landau and Melman fellow Farrah Hassen in Progresso Weekly

Video: Development in Darfur features FPIF co-director Emira Woods in Voice of America's Africa Journal

August 26, 2007
Lehigh Valley Execs take in Big Bucks quotes the IPS co-authored Executive Excess 2007(PDF) CEO Pay Report in The Morning Call Online

August 20, 2007
What the Rise of Democratic Movements in Latin America Means for the Rest of the World by SEEN co-director Nadia Martinez in YES! Magazine

August 16, 2007
The Water Margin cites the IPS co-authored report Challenging Corporate Investor Rule(PDF) in The Guardian

The FBI Gets More Abusive Power - Part 2 by senior fellow Saul Landau in Progreso Weekly

August 15, 2007
Video: Stand Up Congress features Carol & Ed Newman fellow Erik Leaver in the Win Without War video series

Audio: On Pacifica Radio's Wake Up Call, SEEN co-director Nadia Martinez discusses her Yes! Magazine article, Democracy: Latin America Leaps Forward

August 9, 2007
The FBI in Peace and War - Still the Same by senior fellow Saul Landau in the Progreso Weekly

August 8, 2007
Iraqi Oil Law Impasse: Good News for Democracy? quotes Carol and Ed Newman fellow Erik Leaver in the Kansas City infoZine

August 7, 2007
Post-Poodle Politics quotes FPIF co-director John Feffer in The Village Voice

Video: Stand Up Congress features Carol & Ed Newman fellow Erik Leaver in the Win Without War video series

August 6, 2007
Why the Anti-War Movement Doesn't Embrace the Iraqi Resistance by fellow Phyllis Bennis in Political Affairs Magazine

Who Owes Whom? Jubilee South campaigners go beyond calls for debt relief by FPIF co-director Emira Woods in Sojourners.

August 4, 2007
Faith-Based War by IPS senior scholar Saul Landau in Counter Punch

Iraq bleeds US Treasury, enriches contractors quotes FPIF research fellow Miriam Pemberton in Asia Times

August 2, 2007
As Iraq Costs Soar, Contractors Earn Record Profits quotes FPIF research fellow Miriam Pemberton in Inter Press Service

August 1, 2007
How to Deal With Syria by Melman fellow Farrah Hassen in the Washington Post

July 31, 2007
Talk to the Hand by FPIF co-director John Feffer in World Beat

July 30, 2007
Bush Launches A New Middle East Initiative. Middle East Peace Is At Hand. Again, Talking Points #51 by fellow Phyllis Bennis

The 50th Anniversary of the International Atomic Energy Agency quotes senior scholar Robert Alvarez in the Kansas City infoZine

July 27, 2007
Symbolic Vote Rejects Permanent Bases quotes fellow Phyllis Bennis in InterPress Service

Ice Caps, Oceans and Climate Policy by SEEN co-director Daphne Wysham in Washington Post

July 26, 2007
AFRICOM: Wrong for Liberia, Disastrous for Africa co-written by FPIF co-director Emira Woods in Foreign Policy In Focus

July 26, 2007
Bush Launches A New Middle East Initiative by IPS fellow Phyllis Bennis in ZNet

July 25, 2007
Video: Riz Khan - Domestic Worker Abuse features Break The Chain Campaign's Managing Attorney Melanie Orhant on Al Jazeera

Media Spin on Iraq: We're Leaving (Sort of) quotes IPS fellow Phyllis Bennis in Huffington Post



July 24, 2007
Scooter Libby and Luis Posada: How to Walk in Bushtime by IPS senior fellow Saul Landau in Counterpunch

July 23, 2007
Controversial Report States SRS Could Become Largest U.S. Repository of Nuclear Waste quotes IPS senior scholar Robert Alvarez in Savannah Business Report

July 23, 2007
Geography is a Flavor by FPIF project co-director John Feffer in World Beat

July 20, 2007
The Kerner Commission Was Right senior organizer and research associate Dedrick Muhammad blogs in Inequality

July 20, 2007
Audio: Possible Talks Between the US and Iran Concerning Iraq fellow Phyllis Bennis is interviewed on The Shortwave Report

July 19, 2007
Republicans Abandon Bush’s War quotes fellow Steve Cobble in Final Call

July 19, 2007
Afghan Rifts; Guns For Hire cites Drug Policy project director Sanho Tree in ZNet

July 18, 2007
Iraq crisis: US wants more talks with Iran quotes IPS fellow Phyllis Bennis in Radio Netherlands Worldwide

July 18, 2007
Is the Right Really Rising Up Against the Iraq Occupation? by IPS fellow Phyllis Bennis in Alternet

July 17, 2007
Audio: US and Iran Agree to Fresh Talks on Iraq Carol and Ed Newman fellow Erik Leaver is interviewed on Vatican Radio

July 17, 2007
Slick Connections: U.S. Influence on Iraqi Oil co-written by Erik Leaver, Carol and Ed Newman fellow in Foreign Policy In Focus.

July 17, 2007
Deconstructing the Benchmarks quotes FPIF fellow Erik Leaver in The Nation

July 16, 2007
Video: N. Korea Shuts Down Reactor features FPIF co-director John Feffer on CBS News

July 15, 2007
How Veto Powers Stymied U.N. Memberships quotes Phyllis Bennis in the Inter-Press Service, as featured in the Asian Tribune

July 13, 2007
Chavez toys with U.S. dependence on Venezuelan oil by SEEN co-director Nadia Martinez in the Talahassee Democrat

July 12, 2007
Listen To The World A Minute, Please by FPIF research fellow Miriam Pemberton in the Newton Bee

July 8, 2007
International Monetary Fund’s Financial Assistance Policies: Pros and Cons quotes IPS fellow Sarah Anderson in Global Politician

Family jewels are paste but reveal clues of empire by IPS senior fellow Saul Landau in the Progreso Weekly

July 6, 2007
Few curbs put on CEO pay quotes IPS Global Economy director Sarah Anderson in the Akron Beacon Journal

July 5, 2007
To improve security, follow the money, op-ed co-authored by FPIF research fellow Miriam Pemberton in The Boston Globe

July 4, 2007
Official Defends Bush Administration's Africa AIDS Policy quotes FPIF co-director Emira Woods in Voices Of America News

Audio: Black Religion and Its Place in Politics quotes IPS associate fellow Rev. Osagyefo Sekou in NPR's News & Notes

June 30, 2007
Meet the new goliath by IPS senior fellow Saul Landau in Counterpunch

June 28, 2007
Acting Locally quotes Cities for Peace Director Karen Dolan in Editor's Cut, a blog by The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel

Defining the Issues radio: The State of American Freedoms MP3
Defining the Issues radio shows are available as podcasts

June 27, 2007
Analyst Sees Limited Substance in First Lady's Africa Visit quotes FPIF Co-Director Emira Woods in Voices of America News

Missoula joins other cities to put Iraq on local ballot quotes IPS Fellow Karen Dolan in the Missoulian News Online

June 24, 2007
Common Dreams ran World Beat, FPIF’s weekly eZine by John Feffer. Subscribe to World Beat on the FPIF homepage.

June 23, 2007
Agence France-Presse quotes IPS Fellow Sarah Anderson in Bush Risks Losing Trade Powers After Talks Collapse, in TurkishPress.com

June 22, 2007
United Press International quotes FPIF Co-Director Emira Woods in Analysis: Labor strike grips Nigeria, in The Middle-East Times

June 19, 2007
Swarming Congress: Building a Resistance to the 2008 Iraq War Supplemental Funding Bill quotes Carol and Ed Newman Fellow Erik Leaver in Counterpunch

June 16, 2007
Can Hillary take back America? quotes Carol and Ed Newman Fellow Erik Leaver in the Politico

June 14, 2007
Defining the Issues radio: The U.S.Habors Terrorists: The Case of Luis Posada Carriles MP3
Defining the Issues radio shows are available as podcasts

June 12, 2007
The Associated Press cited the Institute's research on CEO compensation in "Half of Top US Executives Made More than $8.3 Million at S&P 500 Companies"

FPIF Co-Director John Feffer asks whether North Korean films ultimately reveal or conceal the reality of the famously closed-door country in this FPIF commentary.

June 11, 2007
IPS Senior Scholar Chuck Collins and partner Demos launched Inequality.org - an easy-to-use website packed with facts and analysis on America's growing economic divide.

June 9, 2007
IPS Senior Scholar Saul Landau interviews Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, Vice President of Cuba, in Counterpunch.

June 8, 2007
IPS Fellow Phyllis Bennis speaks on Democracy Now regarding the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and the June 10 protest on its 40th anniversary. Transcript and audio

June 4, 2007
An Open Letter to The Movement by IPS Fellow Phyllis Bennis

FPIF co-director Emira Woods offers the significance of former Nigerian President Charles Taylor's trial on West Africa, on NPR's Tell Me More. Audio and transcript.

CBC News references the Slick Connections: U.S. Influence on Iraqi Oil factsheet by Carol and Ed Newman Fellow Erik Leaver. Video and Transcript.

June 2007
IPS Fellow Sara Anderson discusses Latin America and The U.S. Role Turned Upside Down in Yes! Magazine.

May 31, 2007
U.S. Role Turned Upside Down: IMF by IPS Fellow Sarah Anderson in Yes! Magazine

Zoellick likely to be approved as World Bank chief quotes IPS Fellow Sarah Anderson in the Washington Post

FPIF Co-Director Emira Woods remarks on the Nigerian election for United Press International

May 30, 2007
Mr. Hardball Goes to the World Bank by IPS Fellow Sarah Anderson in Foreign Policy In Focus

May 24, 2007
Re: Better Ideas for Liberia letter to the editor by Foreign Policy In Focus Co-Director Emira Woods in the Washington Post

The 1970s as context for terrorist violence by IPS Senior Scholar Saul Landau in the Progreso Weekly

May 22, 2007
Defining the Issues radio: Vulture Funds and the threat to Debt Relief in Africa: A call to action at the G-8 and beyond MP3
Defining the Issues radio shows are available as podcasts

May 21, 2007
Slaves in the U.S.: 'This Happens All Over the Country' quotes Break The Chain Campaign's Managing Attorney Melanie Orhant in ABC News

Syria's Occupied Golan Heights by IPS Melman Fellow Farrah Hassen in Creative Syria

May 19, 2007
Top 10 Reasons Why Paul Wolfowitz Was a Great World Bank President by IPS Director John Cavanagh in Alternet

May 18, 2007
Democracy Rising by SEEN Co-Director Nadia Martinez in Yes! Magazine

May 17, 2007
Wealthiest Americans owe nation a dividend quotes IPS Senior Scholar Chuck Collins in the Morning Call Online

May 7, 2007
Recycling Nuclear Waste too Dangerous by IPS Senior Scholar Bob Alvarez in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Foreign Investors Gone Wild by Sarah Anderson in AlterNet

Audio: IPS Senior Scholar Norm Birnbaum joined the Diane Rehm show to talk about the results of the French Presidential elections (Windows Media Player)

May 4, 2007
Adios, World Bank by SEEN co-director Nadia Martinez published by Foreign Policy In Focus and TomPaine.com

May 4, 2007
Missing Words For The New Trade Debate by IPS Fellow, Sarah Anderson in TomPaine.com

May 3, 2007
IPS Fellow Daphne Wysham is quoted in Corporate Climate Plan May Need Carbon Tax Cues by Reuters

May 1, 2007
IPS Fellow Sanho Tree is quoted in this Dissident Voice article regarding the growing recruitment of Latin American mercenaries, including thousands who are in Iraq

April 30, 2007
IPS Research Fellow Erik Leaver is quoted in this TomDispatch column by Jeremy Scahill on the failure of the restrictions in the recently vetoed Iraq spending bill to curtail the deployment of mercenaries there.

April 28, 2007
The Bush Veto, Iraq Funding and Permanent Occupation, Talking Points #50 by Phyllis Bennis

April 27, 2007
Moving Beyond Anti-War Politics by IPS Fellow Phyllis Bennis and Robert Jensen in CommonDreams.org

April 26, 2007
What Happens After Bush Vetoes the Iraq Spending Bill? by Erik Leaver, the Carol and Ed Newman Fellow in AlterNet.org

April 23, 2007
Congress Can Help Put Reins On CEO Pay by IPS fellow Sarah Anderson in the Hartford Courant

April 21, 2007
Blood Money: U.S. Bank Funds Korean Project That Will Destroy Native Community by IPS fellow Daphne Wysham in AlterNet

April 18, 2007
Video & Summary: Say On Pay: Video Roundup features IPS fellow Sarah Anderson on CNBC

April 17, 2007
PPL's CEO got hefty retirement package quotes IPS' Executive Excess CEO Pay Report in the Morning Call Online

April 15, 2007
Nuclear foes see danger in waste quotes IPS senior scholar Bob Alvarez in the North Carolina News & Observer

April 13, 2007
Fat Cat CEOs Strike Back at Congress By IPS fellow Sarah Anderson and associate fellow Sam Pizzigati in AlterNet

April 12, 2007
Tug of war quotes IPS fellow Phyllis Bennis in the Colorado Daily

Panic mode over immigration
by IPS senior scholar Saul Landau and Melman fellow Farrah Hassen in the Progreso Weekly

April 10, 2007
CEO Window Undressing, op-ed by Chuck Collins in the Morning Call and TomPaine.com

Climate change will devastate India, op-ed by Daphne Wysham in The Hindu

April 9, 2007
Limits on Executive Pay: Easy to Set, Hard to Keep quotes IPS' Executive Excess CEO Pay Report in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required to read full article)

April 5, 2007
Whining imperialists by Saul Landau in Progreso Weekly

March 29, 2007
U.N. to Extend Stay in Cash-Strapped Liberia quotes Emira Woods in the Asian Tribune

March 27, 2007
Opposing the Iraq Supplemental & Iran Threats, Talking Points #49 by Phyllis Bennis

March 23, 2007
In a year of war, one day for peace quotes Karen Dolan in the New Jersey Star Ledger

March 21, 2007
Halliburton: From Bush's favourite to a national disgrace quotes Sarah Anderson in The Independent

You Want A New Direction? Here's One
by Marcus Raskin in Common Dreams

March 20, 2007
Coal Kills by Daphne Wysham in Gristmill blog

With Friends Like These ... by former IPS intern Juan Montecino in Counterpunch

March 19, 2007
Activists Seek Alternative Model to ‘Neo-Liberal’ Trade Pacts quotes Sarah Anderson in The New Standard

Tap Dancing on Graves
quotes Erik Leaver in Counterpunch

March 18, 2007
Remake the military, op-ed by Miriam Pemberton in the Press Enterprise

March 16, 2007
Safety at Y-12 questioned quotes Robert Alvarez in the Knoxville News

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January, 2008 - The State of the Dream - To commemorate the 79th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the Institute for Policy Studies and United For A Fair Economy co-sponsored a forum on the new report The State of the Dream: 2008. This report focuses on the historic racial wealth divide, what progress has been made in bridging this divide since the death of Dr. King, and the impact of our contemporary subprime housing crisis on this divide.

Global Campaign Against Anti-Democratic Investment Rules - IPS initiated a petition to the World Bank President in support of Bolivian efforts to challenge corporate investor rights that undermine democracy and sustainable development. Working with civil society allies, IPS gathered endorsements from 863 organizations in 59 countries. Click here to read the petition in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.

December, 2007 - IPS pressed for substantive mandates at the UN's environmental conference in Bali:


IPS worked with the International Forum on Globalization and other organizations to pressure the United Nations for a new negotiating process. IPS, the IFG, and over 125 prominent citizen-leaders around the world called for a new agenda at the U.N.'s upcoming climate talks in Bali, that addressed the inter-related ecological crises facing today's global economy. IPS collected over 125 signatories from citizen leaders around the world. Click here to read the Bali Call.(PDF)

October 17, 2007
Watch the video or browse photos from IPS's 31st Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards at the National Press Club which honored Senator Gustavo Petro, Appeal for Redress, and DC Vote. Also, see photos and read a transcript from the