Interview
U.S. Blocks UN Security Council Vote Calling for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza
January 5 - Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! interviews Phyllis Bennis on the UN Security Council's meeting on Gaza. By Phyllis Bennis, published in Democracy Now!.

Letter to Editor
New York Times letter on Gaza crisis
December 30 - The Israeli airstrikes are a clear violation of international humanitarian law. By Phyllis Bennis, published in The New York Times.

Talking Points
Gaza Crisis: Israeli Violations & U.S. Complicity
December 28 - The Israeli airstrikes represent serious violations of international law – including the Geneva Conventions and a range of international humanitarian law - and the U.S. is complicit in all of it. By Phyllis Bennis.

Talking Points
The Gaza Crisis: Israeli Airstrikes & U.S. Complicity
December 28 - The Israeli airstrikes represent serious violations of international law—including the Geneva Conventions and a range of international humanitarian law—and the U.S. is complicit in all of it. By Phyllis Bennis.

Commentary
Detaining the United Nations
December 22 - Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, wasn't allowed into Israel on a recent trip. That action fits a pattern of Israeli efforts to hide the human consequences of the siege of Gaza and of the escalating settlement expansion in the West Bank. By Phyllis Bennis, published in AlterNet, Common Dreams, Foreign Policy In Focus.

Declaration
Arts Stimulus Plan
December 18 - Here’s a detailed call for the stimulus plan to include a program that will support artists and writers. By John Cavanagh, James Early, Barbara Ehrenreich, E. Ethelbert Miller, Marcus Raskin, Andy Shallal, Melissa Tuckey.

Commentary
Ecuador's Debt Default: Exposing a Gap in the Global Financial Architecture
December 15 - The South American country's refusal to make 'immoral and illegitimate' payments exposes an international financial architecture glitch. By Sarah Anderson and Neil Watkins, published in Common Dreams and Foreign Policy In Focus.

Op-Ed
Post-Racial Racism at the Post
December 11 - Claims of a post-racial society are undermined by racism in mainstream media. By Dedrick Muhammad, published in Counterpunch and The Afro-Netizen.

Op-Ed
Still Waiting for a 'Post-Racial' America
December 4 - Mulitcultural celebrations of Obama's victory show the U.S. is hungry for hope and change. But we are far from healing our racial wounds. By Joy Zarembka, published in Evening Times (Little Falls, NY), The Asheville Citizen-Times, The Pocono Record.

Op-Ed
Obama’s Agenda for Change and the 2009 Summit of the Americas
December 2 - Barack Obama’s electoral victory represents hope for a change in direction for U.S. relations with Latin America. By Rick Arnold and Manuel Pérez Rocha, published in Transnational Institute.

Magazine Article
Climate of Change
December 30 - Prospects for a new deal on climate change after the UN climate conference in Poland. By Janet Redman, published in Red Pepper Magazine.

Declaration
Towards a Global Climate Fund
December 10 - Over 160 citizen groups call for the establishment of a major new Global Climate Fund. By IFG Climate Strategy Working Group and Janet Redman.

Commentary
Paying our Climate Debt
December 4 - Why the World Bank can't be the Climate Bank. By Daphne Wysham, published in Foreign Policy In Focus.

Report
Skewed Priorities
November 24 - The approximately $4.1 trillion that the United States and European governments have committed to bail out financial firms is 40 times the money they’re spending to fight climate and poverty crises in the developing world. By the Global Economy project.

Commentary
Bailouts Dwarf Spending on Climate and Poverty Crises
November 24 - The approximately $4.1 trillion that the United States and Europe have committed to rescue financial firms is 40 times the money they're spending to fight climate and poverty crises in the developing world. By Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, published in AlterNet, Common Dreams, Dollars and Sense Magazine, Foreign Policy In Focus.