Action Alert

Despite the November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program, the Bush administration is bolstering its case for war by labeling Iran one [...]

Hostile rhetoric with Iran is heating up again and Congress’ punitive sanctions approach to dealing with Iran is only adding fuel to the fire. Peace Action West has joined with the Campaign for a [...]

With a chorus of war drums and no sign of interest in pursuing direct and unconditional diplomacy, the US continues to push a foreign policy approach that is counterproductive to ending Iran’s [...]

While arguments that the US must strike Iran to eliminate its nuclear program have lost traction, recent rhetoric from the Bush administration has switched to suggest a new justification for [...]

I shudder to think what the world would be like today if President Eisenhower had listened to his military advisers, who proposed using nuclear bombs against Communist China in 1958. Such a move [...]

The tragic fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq falls in the middle of one of the most exciting election years we have seen in decades. The war in Iraq—its costs in human lives and taxpayer [...]

Peace Action West has been working with a number of other organizations to ban cluster bombs, indiscriminate weapons that rain down “bomblets” on wide areas.  The bomblets often don’t [...]

As part of one of many activities to mark the tragic 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq, Peace Action West will be tabling at the “Surge for Peace” march and rally in Walnut Creek on Saturday, [...]

Why the DOE is holding hearings The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy (DOE). The DOE is holding 20 hearings across the [...]

Around the time that Congress passed the omnibus spending bill, encompassing the budgets of several government agencies, they also passed an additional $70 billion to fund the war in Iraq for [...]