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PBS television and PRI radio host Tavis Smiley has a special on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s anti-war work toward the end of his life airing on PBS stations next Wednesday, March 31, in [...]

–By Lisa Putkey, Scoville Peace Fellow, Peace Action Education Fund, and Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund 2010 is the year to set the roadmap [...]

1. President Obama proposes money for new nuclear weapons production facilities 2. Obama also proposes loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants 3. Nuclear Posture Review on the way 4. Vice [...]

When Willie Sutton, the famous bank robber, was asked why he robbed banks, he replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” President Obama is violating the “Willie Sutton [...]

Two related issues were in the news today, the President’s call for a spending freeze on federal programs, except for the national security state of course, and senior UN envoy in [...]

There is some good commentary from knowledgeable sources about how neo-liberal and economic globalization policies have exacerbated the suffering from the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, mostly [...]

by Jean Athey, Peace Action Montgomery County, Maryland December 29, 209 Free Gaza actions occurred all over Cairo today, and so the police, who are often in riot gear, have had a busy day—they [...]

Published on Thursday, December 17, 2009 by CommonDreams.org by Lisa Putkey and Kevin Martin NPR (also) stands for Nuclear Posture Review. The Obama administration is required by Congress to draw [...]

The generous view of President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is that it honored his stated intentions to promote international peace and was meant to spur him to significant achievement. [...]

-by Kevin Martin President Obama has repeatedly called the US occupation of Afghanistan a “war of necessity”, in contrast to the war of choice his predecessor waged (and of course is [...]