Iraq

This program, Worldview, with host Jerome McDonnell, is one of the best on public radio. It’s on five days a week, focusing on international affairs. I’ve known Jerome for over 20 [...]

After nearly 9 years, the U.S. is withdrawing troops from Iraq. There is no doubt in my mind that this couldn’t have happened without you. Before this war even began, you responded to [...]

In more than eight years of persistent and inspiring activism, you never lost sight of our goal: to bring every last American soldier home from Iraq. Today, it was gratifying to hear President [...]

Today, President Obama announced the overdue end to the war in Iraq. We were pushing for a complete withdrawal up until the last minute, with the Pentagon and some hawks pushing for a residual [...]

Of course it would never have begun in the first place had the peace movement had its way. The human, financial and societal costs of this U.S. war of aggression are hard to fathom. What an [...]

To mark the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, we have been collecting photo stories from around the country showing how people’s lives have changed over the decade the US has been at [...]

National Peace Action Board of Directors Co-Chair Dave Pack had a letter to the editor published in the Kansas City Star last Friday. Well done, Dave! Dear Editor: Our country’s response to the [...]

A terrific op-ed by Betsy Crites, director of North Carolina Peace Action, in the Durham News. What do Durham and Afghanistan have in common? We are worlds apart, but we both have people who need [...]

Peace Action is not an explicitly pacifist organization as some colleagues are, on the other hand I don’t believe we’ve ever supported any US war or use of force in our 54 year [...]

Thanks to the hard work of national Peace Action board member (and University of Hawai’i Human Rights Law Center founder) Joshua Cooper, Peace Action got some serious airtime (an hour and a [...]