Our fearless outreach staff from our headquarters in Berkeley just returned from three weeks in Las Vegas. Their efforts complement the work our organizers Noura and Deidre are doing to make [...]
Today the Democratic presidential candidates, campaign staff and countless media outlets will descend on Las Vegas for CNN’s presidential debate. When they open the Las Vegas [...]
This year has been a trying one for those of us who want Congress to take concrete action to end the war. In dealing with various factions within the House and Senate, legislative [...]
Congressional Democrats offered another plan to push withdrawal from Iraq this week through a $50 billion “bridge fund” to continue military operations in Iraq. The leadership had said they [...]
As I reported recently on Voters for Peace and Security, former Senator John Edwards has been highly critical of his opponents for saying they will leave troops for combat missions after an [...]
Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a prominent and respected critic of the Bush administration’s foreign policy, took a sarcastic jab at current US strategy for dealing with Iran on CNN. He [...]
Despite President Bush’s recent claims that we are seeing “returns on success” in Iraq, a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that a large majority of Americans still support withdrawing [...]
In the wake of continuous urging from the peace movement, the Senate has taken several proactive moves to counteract the Bush administration’s Iran policy this week. Senator Jim Webb, [...]
Cluster bombs are dangerous, indiscriminate weapons that rain small “bomblets”, many of which don’t explode despite their self-destruct mechanisms. These unexploded bomblets act as [...]
More than a month after it passed, the Lieberman-Kyl Iran amendment was still a hot topic in this week’s Democratic presidential debate. The rest of the candidates condemned Clinton’s vote in [...]