Iran

Building a grassroots movement for peace and justice: Peace Action’s Long-Range Strategic Plan, 2011-2016 Summary and Overview   Our Vision   Peace Action is a grassroots-based national [...]

My essay on the prospects for a Weapons of Mass Destruction-Free Zone in the Middle East, in which I also take a whack at one of my favorite pinatas, deterrence theory. Thanks to Foreign Policy [...]

I’m glad to announce the release of Peace Action West’s 2010 Congressional Voting Record. Last year was a big one. It had its triumphs, like when determined senators pushed through [...]

(And now for something completely different – a respite from the criticisms peace activists justifiably level at President Obama over Libya, Afghanistan, Iran, military spending, [...]

Today, Peace Action West is joining a group of leading experts, diplomats and organizations in calling for the Obama administration to reinvigorate diplomacy with Iran. From the National Iranian [...]

The WikiLeaks story will have some legs for some time, which is probably a good thing. There are things to criticize WikiLeaks about, but in general the website is performing an invaluable [...]

This past Tuesday was a rough election for many people, including supporters of a more peaceful foreign policy. While we know that there will be many more proponents of the war in Afghanistan and [...]

So the early reactions from peace activists to the mid-term elections seems to range from “catastrophic” to “really, really bad” to “coulda been even worse.” [...]

Veteran Washington Post writer David Broder is generally thought to be a decent guy, one of the “deans” of Washington journalism and punditry. I’m not a huge fan of his, I think [...]

One reason arguing for smart diplomatic engagement with Iran is challenging in this country is the excessive hyperventilating about the threat from Iran. I saw the epitome of this in a meeting [...]