Nuclear Weapons

There has been some overblown reporting this week that Senator Kyl (R-AZ) opposes a vote on the New START Treaty in the lame duck session and this will kill consideration of the treaty this year. [...]

START: 73% can’t be wrong! A CNN poll shows that a super majority want New START ratified. The Republicans  are treating the New START treaty like a hostage.  They keep questioning the [...]

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.” [...]

Veteran Washington Post writer David Broder is generally thought to be a decent guy, one of the “deans” of Washington journalism and punditry. I’m not a huge fan of his, I think [...]

The Washington Post and Associated Press reported yesterday the Obama Administration granted a waiver allowing continued US military aid to Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and [...]

Nearly every day while I was in London (October 6-12), the newspapers carried stories about the new British government’s budget review. While there was  justificable consternation about [...]

No, this is no Cub fan’s (or old Brooklyn Dodger fan’s) lament. The Washington Post yesterday quoted Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO)  as saying there is considerable sentiment in the Republican [...]

Gandhi Statue in the middle of London’s Tavistock Square Just got back from London, where I had a spectacular time at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s annual conference (yep, CND is [...]

Long-time scholar, author, professor and peace activist Larry Wittner, a member of the national Peace Action board of directors, has a new article on the state of public opinion and activism for [...]