Election 2008

On Tuesday, the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee continued the push back against the Bush administration’s drive for new nuclear weapons by refusing to fund the Reliable [...]

I continued my tour of western states congressional districts last week with a visit to Bellevue, WA in the 8th congressional district. The 8th congressional district race between incumbent Rep. [...]

Carolyn Bninski, me, and Babak Talebi This week was my first of a series of meetings to talk to prospective members of Congress before they are even elected, and provide them resources on foreign [...]

The presidential campaign coverage has reached a new low with television outlets morphing into YouTube echo-chambers and offering wall to wall coverage of Rev. Wright’s skills doing accents [...]

Viewers waking up to Good Morning America recently heard Hillary Clinton say: "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be [...]

On Sunday the kind folks at ThinkProgress.org caught Sen. McCain repeating the exact same mistake he made last week, when he insisted that Muqtada al-Sadr called for the recent ceasefire in Iraq, [...]

In yet another stunning twist of the facts, Sen. John McCain asserted that Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr asked for the ceasefire that has momentarily calmed the vicious battle between Iraqi [...]

Displaying a stunning lack of understanding of policy fundamentals related to his signature campaign issue, John McCain today told reporters that Iranians were "taking al-Qaeda into Iran, [...]

The tragic fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq falls in the middle of one of the most exciting election years we have seen in decades. The war in Iraq—its costs in human lives and taxpayer [...]

As the consensus builds for some kind of exit strategy from Iraq, Peace Action West has been working to draw more attention to the issue of residual forces. With the exception of a few bills that [...]