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This piece is by guest blogger John Ratliff of Massachusetts Peace Action and was originally published here. Minsk 2, the agreement signed in February 2015, was designed to end a devastating [...]

Put down that paperback, my wonky friends!  The White House released a reader-friendly version of all 159 pages of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (aka The Iran Deal or JCPOA) that [...]

For 14 years the US has waged a global war on terror with a stated goal of denying al Qaeda a safe haven anywhere in the world.  Now several of our regional partners in the Middle East, hell-bent [...]

After 20 months of negotiations with Iran, the United States and its UN partners have reached a deal that prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon in exchange for the lifting of sanctions [...]

Last week the Washington Post, citing unnamed US officials, reported that the CIA has revived a controversial aspect of its drone program known as “signature strikes” – a way [...]

This is a guest post from Martin Hellman reprinted from Martin’s Defusing the Nuclear Threat blog. Martin is a professor at Stanford University, best known for his invention of public key [...]

This post was originally printed in the Jerusalem Post and was penned by Peace Action’s political director Paul Kawika Martin who is based in the national office in Washington D.C.  Note [...]

This is a guest post by Dr. Lawrence Wittner (http://lawrenceswittner.com) a Peace Action board member and Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany. He is the author of “Confronting the [...]

Join us this Monday, March 16, at 6 p.m.Pacific (9 p.m. EST) to hear a panel of foreign policy experts discuss how we can stop the attacks on diplomacy in Congress. Jon Rainwater of Peace Action [...]

Just when you thought Congress couldn’t get any more dysfunctional … Today, 47 Senate Republicans directly contacted Iranian leaders threatening to spike any agreement Iran signs. [i] Some legal [...]