Alternatives to War

I want to offer a big thank you to the Peace Action West members who responded to our alert to address the crisis in Libya. The UN Security Council has acted — and they’ve done much [...]

Last month, Republicans slashed and burned their way through the federal budget, gutting critical programs in an ideological drive to cut billions of dollars in spending. While the military [...]

Second-term Reps. Gerald Connolly (D-VA) and Leonard Lance (R-NJ) banded together to send an important message to new incoming members of the House: support the foreign affairs budget: We must [...]

In Republicans’ deficit-cutting hysteria, one area that has been targeted for major cuts is the foreign affairs budget, which funds critical diplomacy and development programs. The longer we let [...]

Many of us are still reeling from President Obama’s announcement that he is going to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Part of the tragedy is that we could be using far better tools than blunt [...]

We have known for some time that President Obama was likely to escalate the war in Afghanistan, with rampant speculation about the details. While there were not many surprises in his general [...]

Our good friends at Brave New Foundation are aiming for 100,000 signatures on this petition to push for a debate about alternatives to war in Afghanistan. Please sign it, then pass share it with [...]

In the sixth segment of their documentary Rethink Afghanistan, Brave New Films takes on the assumption that the war in Afghanistan makes us safer, and offers alternatives to combating terrorism. [...]

I am highly skeptical of the trend in US politics and policymaking of governing from a so-called “pragmatic” middle. This method involves taking two proposals from opposite ends of the political [...]