Alicia Godsberg, Executive Director of Peace Action of New York State, had a sharp letter to the editor published in yesterday’s New York Times on cutting nuclear weapons spending [...]
Despite much rhetoric about supporting democratic uprisings in the Middle East, the US government has been relatively low key in pressuring the government of Bahrain to stop its violent crackdown [...]
The 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan is next week, on October 7. Have you been thinking of which story you’d like to share in our online slideshow, “Your life in the decade [...]
Last month, we asked you to demonstrate your support for the international affairs budget by pitching in to fund Oxfam America’s work to deal with the food crisis in East Africa. Together, along [...]
Most people understand, in a basic sense, that diplomacy and development are important. However, we don’t often hear how agencies like the State Department and USAID are operating around the [...]
A few months ago, I wrote about how the House of Representatives eviscerated the foreign affairs budget in the 2012 budget process. Throughout the summer, we mobilized to pressure the Senate to [...]
By Jonathan Williams Manager of Communications and Online Organizing, Peace Action, www.peace-action.org Co-founder, Civilian-Soldier Alliance – www.civsol.org Transcribed from a speech [...]
On September 24, 1996, President Clinton signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which would ban any signatory nation from exploding nuclear weapons. The problem is that 15 years later, the [...]
The Japanese island of Okinawa is perhaps the most beautiful place I’ve ever been blessed to visit. Okinawa’s people, peaceful history (before the stationing of Japanese troups there [...]
We’ll hit 10 years of war in Afghanistan on October 7th. Think about it. What does it really mean to spend an entire decade at war? A generation of American kids is too young to remember a [...]