Middle East

In moments, the UN security council will vote on a resolution for military intervention in Libya. We already wrote about our serious concerns about the implications of an NFZ. Not the least of [...]

–Kevin Martin, executive director, Peace Action This is something that has been rattling around my brain for a while, but recent conversations with Phyllis Bennis, Judith LeBlanc, Joseph [...]

On his show last week, Stephen Colbert responded with righteous indignation to the concept of cutting the military budget, saying we need to flood the world with weapons for the good of our [...]

Against a mostly positive backdrop of the flowering of democracy in the Middle East (which of course has been in spite of, not because of, U.S. policy in the region), the burgeoning civil war and [...]

What can be done to stop the human suffering in Libya? Yesterday, we wrote about the urgent humanitarian challenges. We highlighted how quick, decisive action can feed, clothe, shelter and give [...]

I want to offer a big thank you to the Peace Action West members who responded to our alert to address the crisis in Libya. The UN Security Council has acted — and they’ve done much [...]

It’s time for bolder international action. Military jets, helicopter gunships, and mercenaries with machine guns are indiscriminately attacking unarmed demonstrators while heads of state just [...]

Today, in spite of — or perhaps because of — the Libyan regime’s brutal attempts to crack down on protesters, Gaddafi continues to lose territory to his opposition. This has [...]

Yesterday at the UN, as many countries of the Middle East navigated a great generational change, the United States missed a perfectly timed opportunity to take a stand for peace and human rights. [...]

As pro-democracy protests continue to spread throughout the Mid-East, we’re getting alarming reports of governments brutally cracking down on protesters. In Bahrain, where the US Navy’s [...]