Nuclear Weapons

Peace activists and groups in Kansas City, Missouri, including our Peace Action affiliate PeaceWorks KC, have been waging an impressive local struggle around the oddball government-corporate [...]

At a recent meeting in Washington to discuss overall peace movement strategy moving forward (more on that soon!), our colleague and friend Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies [...]

That’s right the Congressional Progressive Caucus just released its alternative budget called the Back to Work Budget which cuts Pentagon bloat, makes the wealthy pay their fair share [...]

The political frame of our work is building a new, more peaceful, less militaristic U.S. foreign policy based on democracy, human rights, justice and sustainability. This framework can help us [...]

Imagine turning on the news and hearing a serious discussion about what your elected representatives are doing about critical issues like diplomacy with Iran and the war in Afghanistan. While [...]

As the debate continues on the automatic spending cuts, the deficit, and the 2013 federal budget, it may seem like there is no way forward. Over a trillion has already been cut in the last two [...]

Just a few points to add to Brother Matt Rothschild’s comprehensive commentary on the speech: It took the president almost 45 minutes to mention foreign policy. Understandably, he still [...]

This statement, which I participated in the drafting/editing of, comes from the Working Group for Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific, which Peace Action participates in, [...]

Review of the Showtime television series “Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States” (Note, this review was written after five of the ten episodes in the series had aired. [...]

published by Foreign Policy in Focus Towards a Foreign Policy for the 99 Percent By Kevin Martin, December 18, 2012 Relief, rather than elation, was probably the emotion most U.S. peace activists [...]