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Yesterday, in the largest show of congressional support to date for the nuclear deal with Iran, 151 democratic Representatives sent a letter to the President supporting his efforts to reach a [...]

This is a guest post from Martin Hellman reprinted from Martin’s Defusing the Nuclear Threat blog. Martin is a professor at Stanford University, best known for his invention of public key [...]

This post was originally printed in the Jerusalem Post and was penned by Peace Action’s political director Paul Kawika Martin who is based in the national office in Washington D.C.  Note [...]

It’s time for members of Congress to stand up for diplomacy and against the calls for military strikes on Iran from people like Senators Cotton and McCain. This effort in the House is [...]

This piece first appeared in Huffington Post. Media coverage of the nuclear talks will often take the opposition of Israel, Saudi Arabia and Gulf States to Iran nuclear diplomacy as a given. [...]

This is a guest post by Dr. Lawrence Wittner (http://lawrenceswittner.com) a Peace Action board member and Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany. He is the author of “Confronting the [...]

Peace Action West is proud to join with over 1300 other organizations in signing this letter to Congress asking for fair federal budget that invests in our local communities and protects [...]

On Tuesday, the Republicans introduced a draconian budget proposal that would gut Medicare, defund the Affordable Care Act, and make deep cuts to domestic programs such as food stamps, housing, [...]

This piece was originally published in the Huffington Post. Forget the Cotton 47 letter. The new letters are where the action is. Tensions between the White House and Congress over the Iran talks [...]

Join us this Monday, March 16, at 6 p.m.Pacific (9 p.m. EST) to hear a panel of foreign policy experts discuss how we can stop the attacks on diplomacy in Congress. Jon Rainwater of Peace Action [...]