Institute for Policy Studies

19.10.2007 The "war on terror" has been targeting the entire Muslim world while rendering Americans unable to distinguish between the average Muslim and the so-called "Islamo-Fascist," writes Phyllis Bennis.

07.08.2007 The U.S. government is pressing Baghdad to pass an oil law by September as one of its "benchmarks" of progress, but until now ordinary Iraqis have not been asked their views on the plan to open the country's oilfields to foreign investment. Turns out they oppose it.

27.10.2006 Canadian Maher Arar was recently given a human rights award for his struggle against U.S. authorities who sent him to Syria to face nearly a year of torture. Arar, who has since been completely vindicated of any links to terrorism, vividly recounts the ordeal in his video acceptance.