Iraq

Daniel Ellsberg, famed whistleblower and powerful voice of the antiwar movement, has a message for you. Peace Action West is proud to stand with Daniel, and I hope you’ll read his message [...]

Following up on my post about the harrowing Wikileaks video of a shooting in Iraq, the debate continues about the video and its meaning in our larger debate about the wars in Iraq and [...]

Raed Jarrar, Iraq consultant to the American Friends Service Committee and Senior fellow at Peace Action in Washington, DC, spoke about the recent Iraqi elections. Jarrar, a native of Iraq, was [...]

Please read Peace Action senior fellow Raed Jarrar’s new article in TruthOut. On April 9, 2003, exactly seven years ago, Baghdad fell under the US-led occupation. Baghdad did not fall in 21 [...]

Senior Fellow Raed Jarrar talks to Laura Flanders’ GRITtv below. Watch the whole video also featuring an interview with David Corn about the Nuclear Posture Review or skip ahead to 8:00 [...]

War is ugly.  It sounds like a cliché at this point, and most of us never really have to think about how truly horrifying it is. This week, however, we got some disturbing glimpses into the [...]

After the historic 2008 election, we had a new political landscape before us full of possibility for real foreign policy change. Did your representatives in Congress help move that vision [...]

By: Raed Jarrar, Senior Fellow Seven years under the US-led occupation, Iraqis have been paying a huge price for this war. Five million Iraqis remain displaced from their homes, half of them [...]

Iraq’s Electoral Commission has rejected calls for a recount of parliamentary elections held two weeks ago. The country’s president called for a recount over the weekend, saying that [...]

Refusing a rape victim her day in court. Callously shooting a defenseless nine-year-old boy. Diverting hundreds of AK-47s intended for Afghan police to someone posing as a character from “South [...]