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In addition to the countless moral and financial reasons for ending the war in Afghanistan, smart politicians are recognizing the political reasons for taking a stand against the war. The strong [...]

While much of the world’s attention is focused elsewhere, there are still 2.5 million displaced people in Darfur who are struggling to survive. Oxfam gives us another powerful example of the [...]

Part of the process of truly making development a key pillar of US foreign policy is improving the way we do it. This requires getting down to the fact about what works and what doesn’t, and [...]

As we have noted many times on this blog, important diplomatic and development programs are under attack in Congress. Polls show that Americans are misinformed about how much of the federal [...]

Check out my letter to the editor on military spending in today’s Washington Post, and then consider this request from a wonderful young man who is a powerful brother in the Peace Action [...]

By coincidence, I was with Al at two of the three actions he was arrested at mentioned in the City Council resolution. Al Fishman Presente! – Long-time Peace Activist and Socialist Memorial [...]

Today the House voted on a slew of amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, a bill authorizing hundreds of billions of dollars for the Pentagon and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan [...]

The House is voting this week on amendments to end the war in Afghanistan. This is a huge opportunity to influence the contentious debate within the White House on how many troops to withdraw in [...]

Secretary of War Robert Gates, in his commencement speech at Notre Dame over the weekend, warned against cuts in the US military budget. Not surprising (even though Gates has gotten some praise [...]

  I just got word Al Fishman, former national Peace Action board member and longtime leader in Peace Action of Michigan and the Detroit peace and justice community, passed away. I don’t [...]