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Last week we sent you an action alert urging support for our campaign to Escalate the Talk, Not the War, in Syria. We were grateful to get a strong response, and many other peace organizations [...]

Despite calls to the contrary from unsuccessful presidential candidate John McCain and other “when your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail” know-nothing war-mongers, who [...]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/14-1 Published on Sunday, April 14, 2013 by Common Dreams Tax Day and the Pentagon by Kevin Martin This month, as budget and policy issues in Washington [...]

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 [...]

We are hearing from our Congressional allies that they are hearing more from those who want war in Iran than those who want peace. Please write now and ask your legislators to support diplomacy. [...]

Chicago Area Peace Action’s Roxane Assaf on Huffington Post  http://huff.to/MbohNu  Chicago Area Peace Action’s Roxane Assaf on Huffington Post : What’s Big Deal About Iran? [...]

When a US soldier killed 16 Afghan civilians, many of them children, we were again shocked by the ever-escalating brutality of this war. This was another in a long line of signs that we need to [...]

The war drums are beating again. Republican presidential candidates are tripping over each other to be the toughest on Iran.  A group of senators has introduced a new bill that could put the US [...]

Inspired by the largely peaceful overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt, protests have spread from one autocratic regime to the next throughout the Middle East and North Africa. This week the Bahrain [...]

While the pundits paint doomsday scenarios of the upcoming elections, real progressives are quietly working day and night to reshape the former conservative bastion of southern California’s [...]