Peace Action West News

Here is our analysis on supporting Syrian rebel groups that we shared with Congress today. You can take action to ask for a no vote here. Arms transferred to “moderate” rebel groups have wound up [...]

This piece was originally published in The Hill. Moments after President Obama said last Thursday “I don’t want to put the cart before the horse, we don’t have a strategy yet” he probably wanted [...]

After a ridiculous government shutdown, you don’t need me to tell you how important it is to hold Congress accountable. But I can point you toward a new tool to make it easier. While the shutdown [...]

We have about a week to stop a rush to war in Syria. Please Call your representative and senators now at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on the authorization to use force in Syria.  If you [...]

People who were hoping to see the end of the so-called “war on terror” on the horizon likely found some encouragement in President Obama’s speech today, but even more concern and lingering [...]

Today, a key House subcommittee will likely discuss the future of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter — one of the biggest boondoggles in Pentagon history. Our OpEd ran today in the Orange County [...]

Imagine turning on the news and hearing a serious discussion about what your elected representatives are doing about critical issues like diplomacy with Iran and the war in Afghanistan. While [...]

My parents instilled the value of peace in me early in my life. As a kid I watched my mother organize to bring an end to the Vietnam War. Forty years later I am a foster parent to a wonderful boy [...]

Jon Rainwater and Rev. Rick Schlosser co-authored an OpEd that ran this week in the San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times. The time is now to craft a sane nuclear policy [...]

With Peace Action West and the Peace Education Fund’s help, Retired Major General Roger R Blunt’s anti-nuclear OpEd ran in 13 newspapers around the country last week. In it, he told [...]