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Back in November, reports leaked that US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry had sent secret cables to the State Department expressing his concerns about sending additional troops to [...]

I’m sure you are feeling the same mix of emotions as I am when you see the images coming from Haiti: first heartbreak and then the desire to take ACTION. Many of us have already helped and are [...]

Happy New Year! There are just a few hours left to this decade, and these are my top four reasons why you should click here to help us reach our year-end goal with a gift before 12am tonight. 1. [...]

A lot can happen in a decade. So as we end this one, I ask you to think big. What do you hope the world will look like by the end of the next decade? Do you think it’s a vision worth [...]

Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted 412-12 (with 4 members voting “present”) to pass the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, a broad, aggressive sanctions bill that few if any [...]

Throughout the year, we have worked to oppose broad, unilateral sanctions on Iran. I have made the case many times on this blog that these sanctions will not only fail to elicit positive changes [...]

One year ago December 27th, Israel began air strikes on the Gaza strip, launching a three-week war in which 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed. In a report on the conflict, renowned [...]

Many of us are still reeling from President Obama’s announcement that he is going to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Part of the tragedy is that we could be using far better tools than blunt [...]

We have known for some time that President Obama was likely to escalate the war in Afghanistan, with rampant speculation about the details. While there were not many surprises in his general [...]

Yesterday I joined an enthusiastic crowd on a sunny afternoon in the courtyard of the Federal Building in Oakland to join Rep. Barbara Lee’s rally and press conference to build support for her [...]