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The Senate voted this morning on the politically charged Lieberman-Kyl amendment about Iran’s alleged destabilizing presence in Iraq.  At a critical time when Congress should be [...]

Those who died in Iraq from Sep 16 to 22: Pvt Brandon Thorsen  22  Trenton FL Sgt Michael Townes  29  Las Vegas NV Spc Donald Valentine III  21  Orange Park FL Spc Nicholas Olson  22  Novato CA [...]

Yesterday, Iranian President Mahmouhd Ahmenajad spoke at Columbia University.  His appearance was met with controversy and intrigue around our country.  Everyone was so upset that Columbia would [...]

Iran has been all over the news again this week.  It seems that much of the building tension around US relations with Iran exploded in outrage at President Ahmadinejad’s controversial visit [...]

The congressional strategy to end the occupation of Iraq seems to be changing daily, with calls for compromise one day and votes on tougher measures the next.  In our continued efforts to [...]

Slate magazine has put together a handy “Iraq Position Locator” on its website.  You can see the opinions of presidential candidates, politicians, pundits and reports, and how they have [...]

Today is the first Iraq Moratorium Day.  For my action, I mailed boxes that contained the names of 20,678 voters across the country who signed Peace Action West’s Iraq pledge to members of [...]

The Senate took up several Iraq votes this week, but was unable to pass anything that would change US strategy in Iraq.  The first attempt was on the Webb amendment I mentioned earlier in [...]

I have held my opinion on this blog from some months now regarding the Jena 6 but I cannot any longer.  I felt, at first, that this was not part of our mission at Peace Action.  Then I received a [...]

“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.” Marshall McLuhan [...]