Iran

This program, Worldview, with host Jerome McDonnell, is one of the best on public radio. It’s on five days a week, focusing on international affairs. I’ve known Jerome for over 20 [...]

Thanks to the hard work of national Peace Action board member (and University of Hawai’i Human Rights Law Center founder) Joshua Cooper, Peace Action got some serious airtime (an hour and a [...]

Building a grassroots movement for peace and justice: Peace Action’s Long-Range Strategic Plan, 2011-2016 Summary and Overview   Our Vision   Peace Action is a grassroots-based national [...]

My essay on the prospects for a Weapons of Mass Destruction-Free Zone in the Middle East, in which I also take a whack at one of my favorite pinatas, deterrence theory. Thanks to Foreign Policy [...]

I’m glad to announce the release of Peace Action West’s 2010 Congressional Voting Record. Last year was a big one. It had its triumphs, like when determined senators pushed through [...]

(And now for something completely different – a respite from the criticisms peace activists justifiably level at President Obama over Libya, Afghanistan, Iran, military spending, [...]

Today, Peace Action West is joining a group of leading experts, diplomats and organizations in calling for the Obama administration to reinvigorate diplomacy with Iran. From the National Iranian [...]

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 [...]

This past Tuesday was a rough election for many people, including supporters of a more peaceful foreign policy. While we know that there will be many more proponents of the war in Afghanistan and [...]

So the early reactions from peace activists to the mid-term elections seems to range from “catastrophic” to “really, really bad” to “coulda been even worse.” [...]