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Peace Action West Executive Director Jon Rainwater has made this statement on today’s announcement: The announcement today that the President is sending U.S. ground troops to Syria was as [...]

Yesterday, the peace movement won its biggest victory in recent memory. In a 58-42 vote, opponents of the nuclear deal with Iran failed to garner the 60 votes necessary to end debate and move to [...]

Today, 75 former Senators and Representatives sent a bipartisan letter to Congress asking lawmakers to support the Nuclear Deal with Iran. While they are no longer in office, they continue [...]

Today, after a diplomatic path that sometimes felt as endless as a Möbius strip, the P5+1 nations (US, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany) and Iran reached a historic nuclear agreement. [...]

Today, the deadline for a final nuclear agreement with Iran was extended one week to July 7. Recent indications from the negotiating team suggest that the P5+1 nations and Iran will be able to [...]

The House is about to vote on the annual Pentagon policy bill. The bad news is that it is full of giveaways to the defense industry. The good news is that for the first time in memory [...]

This piece is a reprint press coverage today of Peace Action’s Peace and Planet mobilization in Common Dreams written by Common Dreams staff writer Dierdre Fulton. One day before global [...]

It’s time for members of Congress to stand up for diplomacy and against the calls for military strikes on Iran from people like Senators Cotton and McCain. This effort in the House is [...]

This piece was originally published in the Huffington Post. Within the last few days, neo-conservative pundit Bill Kristol and the Ayatollah’s pen pal, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) have added [...]

This piece first appeared in Huffington Post. Media coverage of the nuclear talks will often take the opposition of Israel, Saudi Arabia and Gulf States to Iran nuclear diplomacy as a given. [...]