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Today, the House of Representatives approved President Obama’s $96.7 billion dollar supplemental for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 368-60.51 Democrats voting against the supplemental [...]

On Monday, up to 100 Afghans lost their lives in a US air strike on Bala Baluk near the Iranian border in Afghanistan. According to the LA Times, “…dozens of people were killed as [...]

Congress established the 12 member, bipartisan Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States in 2008 to “examine and make recommendations with respect to the long-term strategic [...]

Many NGOs are at the UN in New York this week and next for the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The NPT is a [...]

Last Friday, at a Rome conference entitled “Overcoming Nuclear Dangers,” former Secretary of State George Schulz publicly urged the US to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty [...]

Following President Obama’s historic April 5th speech from Prague in which he outlined how taking steps toward a nuclear weapons free world would make America safer and committed the US to [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSn1SXjj2s&feature=player_embedded] This video is an excerpt of President Obama’s speech in Prague. On Sunday, President Obama gave a [...]

Today, President Obama and Russian President Medvedev pledged that their countries will work toward a nuclear weapons free world and are committed to negotiating a replacement agreement for the [...]

There’s been plenty of news on nuclear weapons issues lately. The New York Times’ editorial, “Watershed Moment on Nuclear Arms,” highlights important steps President Obama [...]

Peace Action West organizers Laurel, Will, and Monica helped distribute flyers on the cost of war and urged people to call their member of Congress as part of United for Peace and Justice’s [...]