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This week, Greg Mortenson, who has been successfully building hundreds of schools for girls and boys in Afghanistan, offered a brilliant alternative to war in Afghanistan via Nicolas [...]

Are you going to be in the LA area this weekend? If you are, you should come to this book talk and signing that Peace Action West is cosponsoring on Sunday afternoon. Tad Daley, our colleague and [...]

Not satisfied with the latest round of harsh sanctions signed into law this July, Rep. Brad Sherman is circulating new legislation to ramp up economic restrictions on Iran, this time taking aim [...]

Don’t ask retired Four Star General and Secretary of State Colin Powell. On Meet the Press on Sunday, he said he “doesn’t know whether the United States is winning in Afghanistan.” Powell [...]

As one of you said in the comments on my Friday night post, “so long we have waited for progress on nuclear disarmament!” Thanks to all who wrote me sharing your excitement about the [...]

I’m climbing out from under an enormous pile of work because I want to get you this really quick but crucial update on the fruits of our labor over this entire summer. Just hours ago the [...]

This just in: Senator Corker (R-TN) has gone public, in an interview with The Cable today, he said he plans to vote yes on New START in Thursday’s Committee vote! One of those GOP senators is Bob [...]

National security experts have been taking to the nation’s newspapers to convince recalcitrant Republicans to get on board with the New START Treaty.  In an effort to turn up the heat on Senators [...]

Yesterday The San Francisco Chronicle ran “S.F. shop closes after Iran sanctions ban rugs.” Rebecca Griffin of Peace Action West contributed to the OpEd, which relates how sanctions [...]

The LA Times has the latest evidence that Iran sanctions are not working: well-connected businesses and government operations are dodging the sanctions. Even more shocking, some profit directly [...]