Middle East

Note: Madelyn Hoffman, executive director of New Jersey Peace Action, and Jeff Klein, a Massachusetts Peace Action board member, have been attending this conference in Haifa. We look forward to [...]

New Jersey Peace Action sends representative to Middle East Executive Director to attend anti-nuclear conference in Israel  – Haifa and Ramallah Contact: Madelyn Hoffman, Executive Director, New [...]

…at the Institute for Policy Studies here in D.C., she has been a key ally working with Peace Action in building a coalition to stop a U.S. attack on Syria and offer better alternatives. [...]

Op-ed published today by The Hill, an influential, widely read Capitol Hill publication by Kevin Martin and Josh Ruebner The Obama administration has engaged in astounding linguistic jiu-jitsu to [...]

Last week we sent you an action alert urging support for our campaign to Escalate the Talk, Not the War, in Syria. We were grateful to get a strong response, and many other peace organizations [...]

Despite calls to the contrary from unsuccessful presidential candidate John McCain and other “when your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail” know-nothing war-mongers, who [...]

by Eric Swanson The term “blowback,” the consequences of a covert or military operation that has repercussions for the aggressor or the result of supplying weapons to a conflict only to see those [...]

Great piece on Huffington Post, as always, by SUNY-Albany emeritus professor of history and politics and Peace Action board member Larry Wittner, on U.S. and global military spending. According [...]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/14-1 Published on Sunday, April 14, 2013 by Common Dreams Tax Day and the Pentagon by Kevin Martin This month, as budget and policy issues in Washington [...]

At a recent meeting in Washington to discuss overall peace movement strategy moving forward (more on that soon!), our colleague and friend Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies [...]