weapons proliferation

Just a few points to add to Brother Matt Rothschild’s comprehensive commentary on the speech: It took the president almost 45 minutes to mention foreign policy. Understandably, he still [...]

published by Foreign Policy in Focus Towards a Foreign Policy for the 99 Percent By Kevin Martin, December 18, 2012 Relief, rather than elation, was probably the emotion most U.S. peace activists [...]

So I admit that headline could cover a lot of ground, but I’ll just touch on a few ludicrous developments of the nuclear weapons enterprise in this post, and a few good news antidotes to [...]

Johnny Barber of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, who is currently in Kabul, writes inspiringly of a new initiative by the youth group Afghan Peace Volunteers called 2 Million Friends, an [...]

Concerns over Hurricane Isaac have postponed the Republican convention by a day (and I hope the Gulf Coast gets lucky and receives nothing but some much needed rain for a parched landscape), but [...]

Yep, hard to believe, but the Washington Post editorial board got it right again this morning with Exploding Costs, an editorial questioning the wisdom of devoting up to $10 billion of our tax [...]

Published on Monday, August 6, 2012 by Common Dreams Ban the Bomb, Don’t Bank on It! by Jennifer Nordstrom and Kevin Martin August 6th and 9th mark the 67th anniversaries of the atomic bombings [...]

This week the House takes up the Defense Appropriations bill with votes on amendments coming as early as today or tomorrow.  Call your Representative today! 202-224-3121 Tell her or him to [...]

Editor’s note: The candidates briefing described below is a great example of a well organized, content rich initiative. We hope you will take the opportunity to do the same with [...]

Here are four books on Peace Action related issues I’ve read recently, all written by colleagues (okay maybe I need to balance these now with some non-political books!). What are you reading this [...]