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–Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action The fact that Hiroshima bills itself, and takes that billing seriously, as a City of Peace speaks volumes about the human capacity for [...]

This article from Congressional Quarterly accurately depicts the challenges the Administration will have getting a new arms reduction treaty with Russia, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, or [...]

…which is, when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.   Escalation Scam: Troops in Afghanistan   Published on Thursday, July 9, 2009 by CommonDreams.org by Norman Solomon The president [...]

By Tom Hayden Robert McNamara died the other day as seven American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan.   It wasn’t the deaths on the same day that made me remember McNamara’s folly.   It was the [...]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/long-war-needs-long-peace_b_224154.html The simultaneous conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and beyond are all connected to the Pentagon strategy of [...]

The US is (mostly) pulling back from bases in Iraqi cities in accordance with the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) signed last year by Iraq’s government and the Bush Administration. While [...]

Published on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 by CommonDreams.org Taking North Korea at Their Word Pyongyang has consistently said that its nuclear weapons are intended to deter aggression. And, indeed, [...]

From the US — “Today’s nuclear weapon states will not eliminate their nuclear weapons without the assurance that additional states will not obtain such weapons tomorrow.” [...]

…which of course continues through May 14 so there may be more news to come, but Paul and I are back in DC, and most of the other non-New York CIty Peace Actionistas have left the PrepCom. [...]

Kudos to theInternational Committee of Peace Action for their outstanding work at the UN, and for the citizen diplomats from around the country who came to the UN for the NPT PrepCom this week. [...]