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Fedora. You win the IPS Exposure Award of the Month. Phyllis Bennis is an IPS Fellow and has been for years. She is their led anti-Israel attack bitch.

This woman has a red record going back to at least the 70’s. There should be some information on her at www.keywiki.org and www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org, among other sites.

She is a vile person, period. I think she is also involved in the BDS programs. Used to write for either the old “Guardian” or “Line of March”/Frontline”, or both.

As I recall, she was also a big supporter of the Workers World Party fronts IAC, ANSWER, possibly the older PAM, as well as The World Can’t Wait front.

Somewhere along the line I saw her listed as a member of the Marxist mishmash of the National Lawyers Guild.

Yes, Bennis was one of Saddam Hussein's main allies in the Iraq antiwar movement during both Iraq wars, and she helped develop the talking points used by Joseph Wilson and David MacMichael of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), MacMichael sharing a background with Porter and John Kerry in supporting the Sandinista cause in the 80s. (There should be an FBI file on MacMichael from that era because he was investigated by the Bureau at that time for his contact with Orlando Letelier's network.) Other IPS and TNI personnel who have been active in supporting the Palestinian cause include Eqbal Ahmad, Tariq Ali, Joe Stork, and Richard Falk.

If you scroll down to Porter's current bio at the bottom of the article, it points towards his motive for writing the article by mentioning one of his most recent book projects:

Gareth Porter is an independent journalist and winner of the 2012 Gellhorn Prize for journalism. He is the author of numerous books, including Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare (Just World Books, 2014).

Here's a summary of this pro-Iranian book:

Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare: "In Manufactured Crisis, investigative reporter Gareth Porter shows how Israel and the George W. Bush administration successfully waged their campaign claiming that Iran was trying covertly to acquire a nuclear weapon. . ."

So what we have here is an old Soviet-era propagandist currently promoting pro-Iranian talking points by criticizing U.S. policy in Syria, one of Iran and Russia's traditional allies. Very interesting.