Obama

Thousands of you have already sent a message to the Obama transition team opposing Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense. Thank you! A few of you also wrote to express concern that we may not be [...]

“I don’t want to just end the war; I want to end the mindset that got us into war.” — Barack Obama Feb. 19, 2008 ROBERT PARRY, robrtparry@aol.com, [...]

(Video from Reuters) Since Obama's election, Americans have been treated to images of people around the world celebrating our choice for president in the streets. A number of reports take a [...]

The media remains fascinated by that shrinking pool of voters still deciding between McCain and Obama. But there are no TV cameras in the living rooms of another brand of undecided voter. Do you [...]

As Sen. Obama has been busy making major pronouncements about Iraq, Sen. McCain has not been one to be outdone. You may have read Sen. Obama’s New York Times op-ed, and as you also probably [...]

It is encouraging to see that the presidential candidates have both correctly determined that our nuclear weapons policy deserves significant attention. Both candidates have spent time [...]

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 [...]

For much of the Bush administration’s tenure, the nuclear disarmament movement has been on the defensive, reacting to the administration’s dangerous plans to pursue a new generation of nuclear [...]

We have been saying over and over again that the 2008 presidential election is a critical turning point for US foreign policy, and that the US’s interaction with the rest of the world is more [...]