November 19, 2026, 7 p.m. CET (Europe), 1 P.M. EST (U.S. East Coast)

With Phyllis Bennis and Max Elbaum

Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TL3EJxb8Tx-amOVKyM45uw

The U.S. Democratic Party’s massive victory in the country’s November 4 election was a powerful rejection of Trump/MAGA racism and anti-immigrant abuses. People’s power overcame financial and a host of other corruptions. Rule for the technofascists at the expense essential democratic values and institutions is being seriously challenged.

With few exceptions, including the inflationary costs of the Iran war, U.S. foreign and military policies were marginal to the outcome of the election.

President Trump will continue to exercise near monarchical executive powers, and his disregard for the law will complicate efforts to hold his administration accountable. The election did demonstrate popular U.S. exhaustion with Trump’s and Biden’s failed wars. Congressional abilities to influence U.S. foreign and military polices will be limited, but with its power of the purse it may be able to force an end to the Iran war and to oppose Trump’s efforts to massively increase the Pentagon budget. But from dangerous great power competitions to Gaza, Cuba, Venezuela and more the future remains uncertain.

We invite you to join two outstanding U.S. analysts and peace and justice movement leaders to prepare for this uncertain future in which Establishment Democrats and a rising generation of reformers seek to impact polices while Trump/MAGA exercise power during their two-year lame duck .

Phyllis Bennis directs the Institute for Policy studies New Internationalism Project, focusing on the Middle East, particularly Palestinian rights, U.S. militarism, and UN issues. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. In 2001 she helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights and more recently spent six years on the board of Jewish Voice for Peace, which she now serves as International Adviser. Her most recent book is Understandinperiodg Palestine and Israel.

Max Elbaum has been active in peace, anti-racist and radical movements since joining Students for Democratic Society in the 1960s. He is a member of the Convergence Magazine editorial board and the author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che \ He is also a co-editor, with Linda Burnham and María Poblet, of Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections.

Webinar initiated by the No to War/No to NATO Network and Co-sponsored by the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security.