We flipped two more! This morning both Republican Senators from Maine–Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins–issued statements announcing that they intend to vote for ratification of New [...]
Peace. It’s more than just a holiday sentiment, isn’t it? Politicians say it’s impossible. Pundits scoff and say it’s naive. But you and I and so many around the world [...]
There has been some overblown reporting this week that Senator Kyl (R-AZ) opposes a vote on the New START Treaty in the lame duck session and this will kill consideration of the treaty this year. [...]
Are you going to be in the LA area this weekend? If you are, you should come to this book talk and signing that Peace Action West is cosponsoring on Sunday afternoon. Tad Daley, our colleague and [...]
Over the past few months, we have seen the impact that congressional pressure is having on the Afghanistan debate (thanks, of course, to grassroots pressure on those members of Congress). As [...]
As we struggle with the failure of the military strategy in Afghanistan and look for positive nonmilitary tools to help the Afghan people create peace and stability in their communities, it’s [...]
The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, sat before the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee earlier this week to discuss the current strategy in [...]
The Obama administration plans to reduce the size of the US nuclear arsenal by 30-40% in the next two decades . But there’s a dark side to the good news: the plan includes overall cost [...]
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s comments last week at a fundraiser in Connecticut about the war in Afghanistan received a lot of criticism from both parties, with [...]
In a Washington Post op-ed, former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney attacks the New START treaty and not-so-subtly takes aim at the Obama administration’s national security credentials. He [...]