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Blackwater Chief Executive Officer Erik Prince defends his company’s performance in Iraq before the House oversight committee in 2007. (Associated Press.) In the same room where the famous [...]

Results from the Iraqi provincial elections last Saturday are dribbling out in the form of leaks. Most reports seem to indicate that Prime Minister Maliki’s forces have been strengthened [...]

Wounded Afghan woman Safia (C), 27, lies on a bed at a hospital in the western Afghan city of Herat, on August 25, 2008 after she was allegedly injured in US-led air strikes in Azizabad village [...]

AP – Pakistani tribesmen stand beside coffins of the victims of a suspected U.S. missile strike in Zharki Pakistani reaction to US drone attacks in Pakistan grew this week with the [...]

President Obama made his first personal foray into world diplomacy this week and he didn’t even have to leave the White House. On Monday he gave his first formal interview since being sworn in to [...]

President Obama (it feels good to say that) came into office last week with a vast array of challenges facing him, the crumbling economic not least amongst them. Given the failures of the Bush [...]

After the election in November, as I mulled over what kind of radical change in US foreign policy might be possible with our new president, I was heartened by reading this anecdote in the New [...]

On September 20th, 2001, in a speech to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush declared the beginning of a “Global War on Terror.” The speech was followed by the invasion of [...]

 Senate candidate Al Franken with Peace Action West election organizer Dashielle Vawter As I write this blog post, I am sitting in a coffee shop in Portland waiting to meet with the State [...]

Thousands of you have already sent a message to the Obama transition team opposing Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense. Thank you! A few of you also wrote to express concern that we may not be [...]