Afghanistan

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5EKSBBnzpE]   Matthew Hoh, the former Marine and Foreign Service Officer who resigned in protest of the war in Afghanistan, has rightly garnered a [...]

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 [...]

Flickr photo via JimNtexas. As the (far too narrow) debate rages about whether to use “counterinsurgency” or “counterterrorism” in Afghanistan, enthusiasm has grown in some factions for the use [...]

As we mark eight years of the war in Afghanistan, and President Obama considers increasing the US military presence, it is an important time to reflect on what the costs of this war have been in [...]

As politicians and pundits debate sending more troops to Afghanistan, many of them will argue that we need to protect the women and girls of Afghanistan with military force. But what is the [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh_sxilhyV0] Rep. Barbara Lee’s speech in 2001 before voting against the use of force resolution for Afghanistan. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) was the [...]

President Obama’s being awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace has elicited all kinds of responses from peace activists, especially in the Peace Action family, which is great! We’ve gotten [...]

Peace Action says Obama does not deserve Nobel Peace Prize yet Washington, D.C. – Reacting to today’s announcement of President Obama as the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Peace [...]