Peace Action West News

This is a guest post from Martin Hellman that was originally published on his Defusing the Nuclear Threat blog. For reasons explained in my March 1 blog post, I’m posting draft chapters of my [...]

Since 2001, the U.S. has been in a constant state of war. With the goal of countering terrorism, we have used military force to varying degrees in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, [...]

While the stage was set for Yemen’s civil war long before it officially began, the curtain opened on March 19, 2015 when special forces loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh took [...]

This is a guest post from Martin Hellman that was originally published on his Defusing the Nuclear Threat blog. My last blog post announced that my wife Dorothie and I will be using my half of [...]

Two weeks ago – hours after Peace Action endorsed Bernie Sanders for President – I was asked if I had any interest in going to Nevada to join the campaign for a week, from Sunday through the [...]

By Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action & Jon Rainwater, Executive Director, Peace Action West After 15 years of war, the next president of the United States will inherit daunting [...]

Peace Action Applauds Iran Agreement Success; Urges Similar Diplomatic Efforts with Syria and North Korea Washington, DC — January 16, 2016 — In response to today’s announcement that all parties [...]

In March 2015, a 10-nation coalition led by Saudi Arabia began bombing Yemen, and has been ever since. As the world’s attention has focused on the Syrian Civil War, which absolutely deserves our [...]

The Iran hawks are wasting no time. Tomorrow a bill will come to the floor of the house that would kill the Iran nuclear deal by taking away the president’s ability to provide sanctions relief to [...]

At the end of 2013, shortly after a temporary deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief was signed, a bill was introduced that would have increased sanctions on Iran. [...]