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Along with our colleagues Code Pink, the Institute for Policy Studies and other stalwart peace and justice groups, Peace Action is sponsoring a teach-in on Iraq this Sunday, August 29. Here is [...]

Larry Wittner, long-time activist, professor and author, has a terrific op-ed on History News Network on the gigantic U.S. military budget. Check it out and feel free to re-post and forward.

Sonali Kolhatkar, the host of Uprising, interviewed Paul from Hiroshima last Friday. The show runs on over a dozen stations including: KPFA, KPFT, KRFP, WVJW, WXOJ-LP, FRSC, and The Journey [...]

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted 308-114 to fund the continued escalation of the failed US war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. First off, thanks to all who lobbied their Member of [...]

Our colleague John Isaacs had an interesting article on potential US Senate ratification of the New START agreement with Russia on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists website, it’s worth [...]

When Willie Sutton, the famous bank robber, was asked why he robbed banks, he replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” President Obama is violating the “Willie Sutton [...]

Two related issues were in the news today, the President’s call for a spending freeze on federal programs, except for the national security state of course, and senior UN envoy in [...]

Published on Thursday, December 17, 2009 by CommonDreams.org by Lisa Putkey and Kevin Martin NPR (also) stands for Nuclear Posture Review. The Obama administration is required by Congress to draw [...]

The generous view of President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is that it honored his stated intentions to promote international peace and was meant to spur him to significant achievement. [...]

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 [...]