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Last night, we watched together as the President announced his plans to withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year, and another 23,000 troops by September 2012. President [...]

Washington, DC — June 22, 2011 — President Obama’s announcement this evening of a limited troop withdrawal from Afghanistan — America’s longest war — is bound to disappoint Members of Congress [...]

Thanks for calling your Senators to sign the Merkley-Lee-Udall letter to the President to bring troops home from Afghanistan.  A significant 27 Senators signed. While Peace Action wants to see [...]

By Judith Le Blanc The Congress is debating the federal budget It is time to tell Congress what we want. The Senate is writing next year’s budget now. To cast your vote take the Peace [...]

“Nobody wants to give up the gains that have been won at such hard cost. And nobody wants to give our allies an excuse to run for the exits.” Defense Secretary Robert Gates The image of our NATO [...]

Osama bin Laden’s actions were heinous, so the death of this mass murderer is understandably a welcome relief for some. The endless wars, killing of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, [...]

by Peter Deccy, Development Director, Peace Action & Peace Action Education Fund The war in Afghanistan is now the longest in US history.  The costs are frightful.  Over 12,000 American [...]

While lawmakers talk about cutting spending, the record shows that they have failed to make real cuts within the federal government’s biggest ticket discretionary spending area. [...]

Jean Athey of Montgomery County (MD) Peace Action (and Secretary of the national Peace Action board) is traveling to Afghanistan with Women for Afghan Women (WAW), here is her first blog post [...]