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Last week, we reported that the UN added a U.S.-backed Saudi-led military coalition to a list of children’s rights violators in its annual report on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) in response [...]

In America’s 21st-century-brand of foreign policy, the slippery slopes of war seem to be getting steeper, and no less slippery. Last Friday, avoiding specifics, the Pentagon announced that it had [...]

Yesterday, Army officer Capt. Nathan Michael Smith sued President Obama over the war against the Islamic State, challenging the President’s claim that he already has the legal authority to wage [...]

As if anyone should have needed this reminder …. Today, the United Nations Security Council voted to remind UN member states that medical facilities and personnel should never be targets of [...]

Talk about a new normal. In this era of war throughout the world, it’s a sad trend that there seems to be an attack on a civilian target that should be inviolate on at least a weekly basis. [...]

Yemen is our hidden war. For over a year, the U.S. has been supporting a Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen’s civil war, a war that has so far claimed the lives of at least 3,200 civilians. [...]

Peace Action Applauds Iran Agreement Success; Urges Similar Diplomatic Efforts with Syria and North Korea Washington, DC — January 16, 2016 — In response to today’s announcement that all parties [...]

On December 15, a group of eight Senators led by  Edward Markey sent a letter to President Obama calling for a cancellation of the new nuclear cruise missile program, the Long-Range Stand Off [...]

If we don’t mobilize quickly, in the next few days, Congress may shut the door on long-suffering Syrian refugee families. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan told House Republicans yesterday that he [...]

This piece was originally published on Common Dreams. The first law of military conflict is escalation. In General Carl von Clausewitz’s 19th century classic treatise, On War, Clausewitz could [...]