Middle East

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 [...]

Devastatingly frank and difficult to read, this is from our colleagues at Stop the War UK, an article in the Independent by Stuart Alexander, whose son Sam died in Afghanistan, and a reply from [...]

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 [...]

The June issue of Sojourners has a cover story about the Pentagon budget titled “Let Them Eat Tanks: How the Pentagon’s binge spending is starving the rest of us.” It’s an [...]

I think sincere, well-intentioned people can disagree about how the US should have responded to the situation in Libya, and I’m glad to see a civil discussion happening amongst people who are [...]

President Barack “Three Wars” Obama (Nixon, Reagan and even G.W. Bush could only dream of conducting three wars at once!) was unconvincing in making his case for war in Libya last [...]

–by Kevin Martin, Executive Director The U.S./British/French-led intervention in the civil war in Libya has caused confusion on many sides – in domestic public opinion, congressional [...]

  The media and the public are understandably paying a lot of attention to the brutal repression of the rebellion in Libya and the US and allied response. However, while debate rages about [...]

A palpable air of confusion and international infighting dominated the opening days of the Libyan war.  On Sunday, Arab League chief Amr Moussa raised eyebrows when he said: “What is [...]

Peace Action is a longtime member of International Peace Bureau (please note that does not mean that Peace Action has officially endorsed this statement). Libya: International Peace Bureau [...]