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About $120 Billion. Just sayin’. And some Republicans are talking about ending the war, leading to hopes of a Left-Right coalition coming together to push President Obama to accelerate U.S. [...]

Reading the Washington Post every day is one of the least favorite (self-imposed) tasks of my wonderful job. The paper used to be thought of as liberal, but that was eons ago, at this point it [...]

Monday is the holiday marking the birthday of The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of my fondest heroes, and I bet one of yours, too. “DDE” is President Dwight David [...]

Witness Against Torture www.witnesstorture.org   Press Release January 7, 2011                  Contacts: Frida Berrigan – 347-683-4928, frida.berrigan@gmail.com Jeremy Varon- [...]

According to the Washington Post, NPR and other sources, it looks like we have the 67 Senate votes needed to ratify New START, but calling your Senators this morning is still worthwhile. [...]

Two excellent articles from national Peace Action board members: The story of the “Golden Rule,” an original “peace boat” that sailed into the Pacific nuclear test zone of [...]

President Obama delivered a “stay the course” on the Afghanistan-Pakistan war speech inside the White House this morning in conjunction with the release of the administration’s [...]

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director While far from a certainty, there is reason for cautious optimism that the U.S. Senate will vote on New START ratification next week. This modest but [...]

This week, the co-chairs of the President’s Deficit Commission issued their report entitled, “Moment of Truth.” The report proposes to put the weight of the economic crisis on the backs of our [...]

The WikiLeaks story will have some legs for some time, which is probably a good thing. There are things to criticize WikiLeaks about, but in general the website is performing an invaluable [...]