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According to the Washington Post, NPR and other sources, it looks like we have the 67 Senate votes needed to ratify New START, but calling your Senators this morning is still worthwhile. [...]

A front-page article in this morning’s Washington Post paints a pretty good picture of the prospects for ratifying the New START nuclear arms reduction pact this week, but it’s not a [...]

Two excellent articles from national Peace Action board members: The story of the “Golden Rule,” an original “peace boat” that sailed into the Pacific nuclear test zone of [...]

President Obama delivered a “stay the course” on the Afghanistan-Pakistan war speech inside the White House this morning in conjunction with the release of the administration’s [...]

Just got back from a successful two-day trip to New York City for major donor visits and a conference on UN-civil society partnerships keynoted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. It was the third [...]

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director While far from a certainty, there is reason for cautious optimism that the U.S. Senate will vote on New START ratification next week. This modest but [...]

This week, the co-chairs of the President’s Deficit Commission issued their report entitled, “Moment of Truth.” The report proposes to put the weight of the economic crisis on the backs of our [...]

The WikiLeaks story will have some legs for some time, which is probably a good thing. There are things to criticize WikiLeaks about, but in general the website is performing an invaluable [...]

The current “lame duck” session of Congress will at least partially be defined by a high-stakes game of political chicken (sorry to use two fowl metaphors in one sentence!) over New [...]

Friends, Please see the trenchant analysis and commentary below by Alicia Godsberg, the new Executive Director of Peace Action of New York State, in response to an op-ed in yesterday’s New [...]