Peace Action West News

This is a guest post from Martin Hellman that was originally published yesterday on his the Defusing the Nuclear Threat blog. Tonight’s  PBS Newshour covered North Korea’s fourth nuclear [...]

On December 15, a group of eight Senators led by  Edward Markey sent a letter to President Obama calling for a cancellation of the new nuclear cruise missile program, the Long-Range Stand Off [...]

In a remarkable political turnaround, the omnibus spending bill that was posted online yesterday has no language blocking refugees from Iraq and Syria from entering the country, despite the fact [...]

Yesterday, 112 House Representatives sent a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Appropriations calling for increased funding to address the greatest humanitarian [...]

In 2013, the federal government shutdown for 16 days because the GOP added language to a spending bill that would have defunded the Affordable Care Act. In the end, Republicans actually had to [...]

If we don’t mobilize quickly, in the next few days, Congress may shut the door on long-suffering Syrian refugee families. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan told House Republicans yesterday that he [...]

Peace Action West Executive Director Jon Rainwater has made this statement on today’s announcement: The announcement today that the President is sending U.S. ground troops to Syria was as [...]

When the nuclear deal with Iran cleared its biggest hurdle in September by securing enough support in Congress to move forward, we argued that the Iran deal could serve as a model that would lead [...]

This piece is by guest blogger John Ratliff of Massachusetts Peace Action and was originally published here. Minsk 2, the agreement signed in February 2015, was designed to end a devastating [...]

Yesterday, 72 organizations signed a letter to Congress urging our elected officials to support for the Nuclear Deal with Iran. With 3 weeks left in the Congressional review period for the [...]