The boldness and broad unpopularity of this new era of Trump’s “Whenever Wars” may present real opportunities for concerted organizing against U.S. militarism. How can we take advantage of this moment within the U.S. and globally? Join this conversation with Khury Petersen-Smith, the  Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and the Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a research organization supporting movements to resist fascism and win transformational progressive change.

Khury researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration and strategizes with activists to work against the violence that the U.S. carries out and supports around the world. Khury focuses especially on U.S. militarism in the Middle East and in the Pacific, and movements that resist it. He graduated from the Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Massachusetts, after completing a dissertation on U.S. military bases in the Pacific. He is one of the co-authors and organizers of the 2023 Black Voices for Ceasefire statement, which was signed by over 6,000 Black activists, artists, and scholars. His most recent work focuses on the U.S. war on Iran, U.S.-Israel relations, etc.