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The run-up to war doesn’t happen overnight. It’s made up of small steps to slowly build acceptance for the idea of military action. A group of senators have introduced just such a bill that urges [...]

There is a lot of hype around the showdown over sequestration or the across the board cuts in the federal budget. The worst fear mongering is about the impact on the Pentagon budget.   The [...]

As the debate continues on the automatic spending cuts, the deficit, and the 2013 federal budget, it may seem like there is no way forward. Over a trillion has already been cut in the last two [...]

Tuesday night, President Obama announced that another 34,000 troops will come home from Afghanistan by this time next year. This is wonderful news for those 34,000 soldiers and their friends and [...]

Mixed Messages in Obama’s State of the Union http://www.progressive.org/mixed-messages-in-obama-state-of-the-union By Matthew Rothschild, February 13, 2013 President Obama’s State of the [...]

Lots to be scared of this Halloween – Frankenstorm and its aftermath, a possible Romey-Ryan Administration, running out of candy at 7:30 while trick or treaters still roam your [...]

Last week, we shared (on the Peace Action FaceBook page, not here on the Peace Blog) the devastating Living Under Drones report on U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, written by researchers from [...]

Presidential candidates are terrified of looking weak on security — especially in the final weeks before an election. And anti-Iran hawks are doing everything they can to exploit this [...]

Democrats are typically known for running scared from foreign policy, especially in a hotly contested election. In 2012, however, it was Mitt Romney who held back on global affairs in his [...]

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 [...]