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Great job by Peace Action Wisconsin Program Director Mike Helbick, who got help on this from our friends at the Coalition for Human Needs. Cuts Threaten Milwaukee, our Economy [...]

The political frame of our work is building a new, more peaceful, less militaristic U.S. foreign policy based on democracy, human rights, justice and sustainability. This framework can help us [...]

What’s notable about this is it’s not just the usual suspects, which is likely why the Washington Post gave it some ink. Bipartisan coalition calls for reforming sequester’s [...]

There is a lot of hype around the showdown over sequestration or the across the board cuts in the federal budget. The worst fear mongering is about the impact on the Pentagon budget.   The [...]

  The “sequester” — automatic across-the-board federal government spending cuts that appears to be inevitable come March 1 — will hurt domestic discretionary spending [...]

As the debate continues on the automatic spending cuts, the deficit, and the 2013 federal budget, it may seem like there is no way forward. Over a trillion has already been cut in the last two [...]

Ten years ago, in the largest demonstration in history, over 15 million people worldwide hit the streets to call for peace instead of George Bush’s “pre-emptive” war of [...]

Tuesday night, President Obama delivered his first State of the Union speech of his second term. While it was a mixed bag for progressives on various domestic and foreign policy issues, there was [...]

Just a few points to add to Brother Matt Rothschild’s comprehensive commentary on the speech: It took the president almost 45 minutes to mention foreign policy. Understandably, he still [...]

Mixed Messages in Obama’s State of the Union http://www.progressive.org/mixed-messages-in-obama-state-of-the-union By Matthew Rothschild, February 13, 2013 President Obama’s State of the [...]