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By Judith LeBlanc, Field Director,Peace Action The Pentagon is ready to use a “slush fund” to do an end run on budget cuts. They will take some of the money for wars called the Overseas [...]

On October 7, 2001, America went to war with Afghanistan in response to the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. Operation Enduring Freedom began with air strikes centered on the capital of [...]

There’s drama brewing in Congress over the war supplemental recently passed by the House and the Senate. The Senate version contains a $108 billion line of credit to the International [...]

Yesterday, the Senate approved President Obama’s $91.3 billion war supplemental for Iraq and Afghanistan by a vote of 86-3. One Democrat, one Republican and one Independent voted against [...]

Saeed Barakat returned home from a visit with relatives to a “nightmarish landscape,” where his family had been sleeping during an air strike. He said, “We blame America. With all their [...]

Today, the House of Representatives approved President Obama’s $96.7 billion dollar supplemental for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 368-60.51 Democrats voting against the supplemental [...]