Obama Administration

                      Send President Obama and Congress a Message On Election Day, we sent a message.  Protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. End the wars and reinvest in our [...]

According to Michael Gordon in the New York Times the Obama Administration is currently considering whether to keep anywhere from under 1,000 to over 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan past the [...]

Tomorrow night’s second presidential debate may, or may not, surface big differences between the two candidates on various foreign and domestic policy issues. One crucial issue on which we [...]

Last week, we shared (on the Peace Action FaceBook page, not here on the Peace Blog) the devastating Living Under Drones report on U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, written by researchers from [...]

Here’s my quick take on the President’s acceptance speech at the Dem Convention last night, but I’d love to know what you thought of it as well. (The New York Times has the [...]

Here are four books on Peace Action related issues I’ve read recently, all written by colleagues (okay maybe I need to balance these now with some non-political books!). What are you reading this [...]

by Peter Deccy Yesterday’s New York Times had a troubling story of a 52 minute battle between a company of US troops and two Afghan soldiers who had lived and fought alongside the Americans. The [...]

–Executive Director Kevin Martin (Field Director Judith Le Blanc will also post her observations) The president spoke of the strength of the Afghan security forces. Yet he had to make this [...]

New Jersey Peace Action Executive Director Madelyn Hoffman had a terrific op-ed in the Bloomfield Life last week, titled Moving to a Culture of Peace linking local gun violence, military spending [...]

–Executive Director Kevin Martin In just over a month, peace activists and allies from other social justice movements from around the country and around the world will gather in Chicago [...]