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The presidential election has been all over the media for months (prompting The Daily Show’s apt segment title “Endless Suffrage”), but political junkies like me who want to [...]

For decades, we have pointed out that bloated military spending takes money away from programs that have a much more positive impact on society–health care, education, the social safety [...]

Will our troops in Afghanistan see their children serve there 23 years after the war began? Last week, President Obama announced an agreement with the Afghan government that could mean thousands [...]

Last week, President Obama tried to sell the new US-Afghan Strategic Partnership agreement as the beginning of the end of war in Afghanistan to a war-weary public. Contrary to the president’s [...]

What did you think about President Obama’s speech last night? Read my take, which appears here today in the San Francisco Chronicle, and share your thoughts in the comments below. The White [...]

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) took to the San Francisco Chronicle to share an important message about resolving tensions with Iran: Some argue Iran has no intention of curtailing its nuclear [...]

I have an op-ed in the paper today expanding on the problems with new legislation that is pushing the US toward war with Iran. I was in Iran in 2009 when a family invited me into their home for [...]

This week, Peace Action West joined a broad coalition of groups calling on congressional leaders to support diplomatic engagement with Iran and oppose a disastrous military intervention. The [...]

“If you like Iraq and Afghanistan, you’ll love Iran.” That’s what General Anthony Zinni says about bombing Iran. So why is Congress pushing us closer to military confrontation? Click here to tell [...]

It’s an election year. That means it’s prime accountability time. And this email has everything you need to let your representatives in DC know you’ve been watching them like [...]