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It couldn’t be clearer that now is a critical time to speak out against harsh sanctions on Iran. Congress is back in session and they are facing enormous pressure to pass sanctions on Iran, [...]

Chuck Hagel, former Republican Senator and decorated Vietnam vet, is the latest voice in a growing chorus that could shift the Afghanistan debate in profound ways. Like other analysts he creates [...]

Progressive leaders you helped elect in 2008 have voted against funding for the war in Afghanistan, called for a quicker withdrawal from Iraq, and helped defeat wasteful F-22 fighter jets. We are [...]

But its manpower pool was not North Vietnam's Achilles heel and neither is it the Taliban's. Almost exactly the same percentage of personnel in Afghanistan has rural reconstruction as its primary [...]

Yesterday, the African Nuclear Weapons Free Treaty (a.k.a. Treaty of Pelindaba) went into full effect.  Burundi was the necessary twenty-eighth signatory to the Treaty which was opened for [...]

This morning I joined a group of about 75 other activists to gather at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima [...]

This week marks the 64th anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today also marks the 46th anniversary of the signing of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The US was [...]

Recently, top military brass have been questioning the usefulness of keeping U.S. fighting forces in Iraq.  Col. Timothy Reese, Chief of the Baghdad Operations Advisory Team, had this to say [...]

Every year, on August 6th and 9th, thousands of people around the world gather for solemn commemorations of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But remembrance is more than [...]

Please join me this Sunday to hear about my recent grassroots diplomacy trip to Iran and how together we can use what I’ve learned to build support for diplomacy and pressure Congress to [...]