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As you know, last week President Obama announced that he was going to send nearly 500 more troops to Iraq on top of the over 3,500 already sent.  Add to this 17,000 airstrikes over the region at [...]

Thanks to Massachusetts Peace Action for this alert. This week the House of Representatives will debate and attempt to pass the latest Fast Track legislation after it won passage in the Senate. [...]

by Paul Kawika Martin It’s that time of year when Congress figures out the federal budget for next year. The House will take up the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) this week. Despite [...]

With a little over a month to go before negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 (the U.S., UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) are concluded, everything is proceeding as planned. The technical [...]

Peace Action Hails 150 Reps Letter to Obama Supporting Iran Diplomacy Washington, DC — May 7, 2015 — In reaction to the letter organized by Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and [...]

It can be argued that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week passed legislation that might make it harder for the international community to reach a final agreement with Iran on its [...]

-Kevin Martin, Executive Director Starting with a great statement by journalist Robert Parry: “The April 2 framework agreement with Iran represents more than just a diplomatic deal to prevent [...]

Last week, I sent you a very similar email that asked you to email Congress and ask them not to kill the historic Iran deal.  It’s working!  Some Senators’ extreme language has softened.  [...]

You have worked with us for nearly a decade to ensure that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon, and that result comes via diplomacy, not war.  Our efforts, in coordination with a large [...]

  04/02/15 07:09 PM—UPDATED 04/02/15 07:21 PM http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/why-congress-should-give-nuclear-deal-iran-chance By Paul Kawika Martin Today the United States, Iran, and other world [...]