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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 [...]

A pox on both presidential tickets for their shameful ignoring of climate chaos in the debates and the campaign overall. Hurricane Sandy seems timed to remind us all this issue is real, denial by [...]

Jon Rainwater and Rev. Rick Schlosser co-authored an OpEd that ran this week in the San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times. The time is now to craft a sane nuclear policy [...]

With Peace Action West and the Peace Education Fund’s help, Retired Major General Roger R Blunt’s anti-nuclear OpEd ran in 13 newspapers around the country last week. In it, he told [...]

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director For me, the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis has a very personal angle. On this day fifty years ago, I was still in my mother’s womb, and [...]

Mitt Romney sure mentioned the word “peace” an awful lot in the last presidential debate Monday night. While my take is that he did so in a pretty cynical way, trying to make folks [...]

Published by The Hill, an influential Capitol Hill publication By Jon Rainwater, executive director, Peace Action West and the Peace Education Fund – 10/18/12 02:30 PM ET When voters mark [...]

Jon just had an OpEd go up on The Hill — one of Capitol Hill’s leading papers, and widely read among policymakers. It’s great timing, given next week’s presidential [...]

50 years ago today, the people of the world had no idea that the first steps of the Cuban Missile Crisis had begun, and the planet was about to be the closest that we have ever been to a global [...]

By Lawrence S. Wittner, October 17, 2012 (Larry Wittner is a member of the national Peace Action national board of directors. This article was first published by our friends at Foreign Policy in [...]