War

Madelyn Hoffman, Executive Director of New Jersey Peace Action, wrote a terrific rejoinder to a “decline of the peace movement” article published last week by Politico and Common [...]

My overall impression is there is little question the president is spinning this “end of combat operations” in Iraq because the Afghanistan war is going badly. A few other thoughts and reactions [...]

While it may not be some people’s idea of summer beach reading, Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement by our own Larry Wittner (Professor at [...]

When Willie Sutton, the famous bank robber, was asked why he robbed banks, he replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” President Obama is violating the “Willie Sutton [...]

By Tom Hayden Robert McNamara died the other day as seven American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan.   It wasn’t the deaths on the same day that made me remember McNamara’s folly.   It was the [...]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/long-war-needs-long-peace_b_224154.html The simultaneous conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and beyond are all connected to the Pentagon strategy of [...]

We have a chance to win on two issues in the next few days: 1. Cut the funding for the outdated F-22 Jet, which both Pres. Obama and Def. Sec. gates want cut. 2. Get an exit strategy from the [...]

The U.S. House of Representatives is on the verge of voting on the final war supplemental! They have passed the rule, but it doesn’t look like they have the votes yet to pass the [...]

House Democratic leadership definitely does not have the votes yet.  It sounds like the leadership is going to use floor time tonight on various votes to do face-to-face whipping.  If they have [...]

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