Afghanistan

What would you buy if you had a million dollars? As people struggle to stay in their homes and provide health care for their families, we can all think of ways that a million dollars could do a [...]

Following up on my post about the harrowing Wikileaks video of a shooting in Iraq, the debate continues about the video and its meaning in our larger debate about the wars in Iraq and [...]

Before its April 5 release of the video that’s currently making it famous, the site Wikileaks unearthed a classified CIA report (pdf download) titled “Sustaining West European Support for [...]

War is ugly.  It sounds like a cliché at this point, and most of us never really have to think about how truly horrifying it is. This week, however, we got some disturbing glimpses into the [...]

One of our greatest challenges is a Congress full of politicians who scare easily when it comes to issues of war and peace. Whether it’s out of fear or lack of motivation, they just go [...]

This is an excerpt from Peace Action West’s 2009 congressional voting record. Click here to see the voting record and learn how your representatives voted on key issues from Afghanistan to [...]

Peace Action West is joining with the Wellstone Democratic Club in cosponsoring this event with authors and activists Reese Erlich and Norman Solomon. This is an important time for the peace [...]

After the historic 2008 election, we had a new political landscape before us full of possibility for real foreign policy change. Did your representatives in Congress help move that vision [...]

Every day, Peace Action West and our supporters pressure Congress to support smart foreign policies like eliminating the threat from nuclear weapons and solving conflicts through diplomacy. Every [...]

Democrats are polling dismally right now, and they’re learning all the wrong lessons. Even after their military surge, even after delaying the closure of the Guantánamo Bay prison, even [...]