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If Congress doesn’t break its stalemate by March 1st, automatic spending cuts will kick in. I was just on Capitol Hill talking to congressional staff, and it’s clear they need to hear more [...]

Earlier this month Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund launched a call-in campaign to the White House comment line, calling on the President to choose the zero troops option once the [...]

Lead article today on Foreign Policy in Focus. Would love your comments regarding our nation’s progress on Dr. King’s triple evils of racism, extreme materialism and militarism. [...]

By Judith Le Blanc – Field Director, Peace Action – A sermon delivered on January 13, 2013 to the Transcontinental Baptist Church and Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Lauderdale. [...]

One of the best ways to reduce the deficit is to put people back to work.  It’s time to invest in our people, and our communities. Let’s create stable jobs at living wages, rehabilitate our [...]

“… is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy, instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot [...]

The Associated Press reported yesterday the Pentagon’s internal statistics show more U.S. troops committed suicide last year than died in combat in Afghanistan. The Pentagon noted the rate [...]

Since President Obama took office in 2009, his administration has dramatically increased the use of unmanned armed drones throughout the Middle East and Africa.  The administration has overseen [...]

I read in The Washingtion Post this morning President Obama is considering residual troop levels “significantly lower than what some in the military have advocated,” and that the [...]

Review of the Showtime television series “Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States” (Note, this review was written after five of the ten episodes in the series had aired. [...]