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One would never know with all the America-first chest-pounding one hears from politicans (especially most Republican presidential candidates!), but Americans are much more internationalist than [...]

Not only is the U.S. military the largest consumer of fossil fuels and the largest polluter in the world, it knows the climate crisis is real and can drive future military conflict. Tim Rinne, [...]

A few weeks ago, Peace Action staffers Judith Le Blanc, Jonathan Williams and I had the delight of stopping by the Recall Walker (that would be the union-busting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker) [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                  CONTACT: Alicia Godsberg (646) 723-1749 alicia@panys.org   New Defense Strategy: Not Sounding That New   NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. (January [...]

Posted on Tue, Jan. 03, 2012   http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/03/v-print/3350801/the-iraq-war-was-our-greatest.html Iraq War Was the United States’ Greatest Foreign Policy Disaster  By [...]

  BY MADELYN HOFFMAN GUEST COLUMNIST Bloomfield Life, December 28, 2011   As 2011 ends, it is time to reflect upon continuing U.S. involvement in overseas wars and the impact that involvement has [...]

Bring the war dollars home By Betsy Crites Herald-Sun guest columnist The withdrawal from Iraq is to be celebrated like a migraine that finally subsides. It is what the majority of Americans have [...]

You can’t evict the 99%. Agnes from Community Voices Heard, an East Harlem based organization of low-income people, working to improve the lives of the community said,  “Don’t [...]

Last week and weekend in Paris, I was honored to represent Peace Action at the international conference of our good colleagues le Mouvement de la Paix (French Peace Movement). I was the only U.S. [...]

The following is excerpted from recent speeches I gave at the Nebraskans for Peace annual conference in Lincoln, NE and the Chicago Area Peace Action annual dinner in Wilmette, IL. Move the [...]