PUBLICATIONS

This week's monitor explores the trajectory of the recent coup in Sudan and how it will impact democratic processes in the African nation.

A detailed look in the relationship between Ankara and Washington, and what has made made U.S.-Turkey relations more strained than ever before.

This week's policy monitor highlighted Burkina Faso’s former president, Thomas Sankara and the journey of his assassination 34 years later.

The Biden administration will withhold $130 million in U.S. military assistance to Egypt this year, citing concerns over the human rights situation in the country as recent reports
of extrajudicial killings, jailings of political dissidents, and widespread repression of civil society have revived debates over the use of U.S. assistance for the regime’s abuses.

It’s long past time that we stopped allowing special interest lobbying and corporate profits
stand in the way of a more sensible nuclear policy.

This week's policy monitor focused on African countries who are among the world’s top ten countries to be most affected by climate change, but has contributed almost nothing to climate change.

The reaction to the 9/11 attacks created a political climate that opened the floodgates to massive increases in Pentagon spending with few questions asked. Since the start of the war in Afghanistan, Pentagon spending has totaled over $14 trillion, one-half or more of which went to defense contractors. After the 9/11 attacks, the Pentagon budget increased year after year for 10 years running, peaking in 2010 at the highest level since World War II.

This week's policy monitor explores the issues that plague UN Peacekeeping missions in Africa.

This week's policy monitor examines the death of ISIS Leader, Abu Walid Al-Sahrahwi, by airstrike conducted by France's Barkhane military operation last month.

The current U.S. national security paradigm robs us of economic resources, corrupts our political system,
endangers our lives, and offends our most fundamental moral values.

It perpetuates a system that discriminates against, disempowers, disrespects, dehumanizes, and brutalizes Black and brown people and other communities of color. It is an extension of systemic white supremacy at home that relies upon the threat and use of force abroad.

Continuing the U.S. quest for global military domination harms not only the people of other countries and the earth we share, but the vast majority of Americans. The Racism-Militarism Paradigm, moreover, harms all of our social, political, and economic institutions, including our democratic institutions, thus weakening our entire society.

To peacefully and democratically dismantle this paradigm, we must offer a compelling alternative vision of the U.S. role in the world.