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The New York Times ran an OpEd by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicolas Kristoff calling for more “more schools, not troops” for Afghanistan. We need a lot more like these, because [...]

The Afghan Women’s Mission is sponsoring two nationwide speaking tours featuring two amazing, brave Afghan women: Zoya and Malalai Joya. Zoya is a member of the Revolutionary Association of [...]

Ann Jones, who has spent years working with women in Afghanistan, wrote a gripping piece for the Nation that guts the notion that war has helped Afghan women, and seriously questions the purpose [...]

Sec. of State Clinton delivered a speech yesterday at the United States Institute of Peace that reinforced the president’s agenda to address the threat posed by nuclear weapons. She gets to the [...]

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion editorial by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) entitled “Why We Need to Test Nuclear Weapons.” If the title makes you grind your teeth, just [...]

Our good friends at Brave New Foundation are aiming for 100,000 signatures on this petition to push for a debate about alternatives to war in Afghanistan. Please sign it, then pass share it with [...]

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has a good primer video on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty explaining what the treaty is and how US ratification of the treaty would enhance our [...]

Peace Action West joined a broad coalition of faith, environmental, arms control, and peace and security organizations in sending a letter to President Obama thanking him for his leadership on [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7bHkH779qg] President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and [...]

On October 7, 2001, America went to war with Afghanistan in response to the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. Operation Enduring Freedom began with air strikes centered on the capital of [...]