Dying to Get Paid in Iraq

The issue of Iraq is not one that is only debated in our halls of government. Corporate interests have a heavy say in the war through private contracts vetted by the U.S. military. A recently Los [...]

Eli Israel, US Soldier, Declines to further Participate in the Occupation.

Declaring that “we [USA] are now violating the people of this country [Iraq] in ways that we would never accept on our own soil”, SPC Eli Israel told his commanding officer that he would no [...]

Oil Will Keep the U.S. in Iraq

This is a re-publication of a published letter to the editor from the Washington Post Sunday, June 17, 2007; Page B06 The June 10 front-page article “Military Envisions Longer Stay in [...]

Our Leaders should stress Peace and Diplomacy in Iran and not War

Last Sunday on Face the Nation, Sen. Joe Lieberman said. “If they don’t play by the rules, we’ve got to use our force, and to me that would include taking military action to [...]

Another Very Large Blank Check for the Emperor Bush’s Quagmire

by Kevin Martin Executive Director, Peace Action Will the people of Iraq ever forgive us? Every Member of Congress who voted for this is an accessory to quagmire, murder and destruction, plain [...]

Action Alert: Tell Congress to Stop Funding War

by Kevin Martin and Paul Kawika Martin Instead of responding to President George “Commander Guy” Bush’s veto of the nearly $100 billion supplemental war funding bill with a proposal [...]