weapons proliferation

If you care about peace, disarmament, just budget priorities, and promoting nonviolent social and political change in the world, here is a terrific resource for you from longtime Cleveland Peace [...]

Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon are among the top merchants of death in terms of weapons transfers and military aid to Egypt. Surprised? Sue Sturgis reports on the Top Ten US weapons [...]

Several times over the last few days I have heard US government officials espouse non-violence as a recommendation to both the protesters and the Mubarak regime in Egypt (White House Press [...]

I’m guessing you know it’s not the Egyptian nor the American people. Israel, or at least its government? Well perhaps but let’s not go sideways here. If you said Lockheed [...]

Reading the Washington Post every day is one of the least favorite (self-imposed) tasks of my wonderful job. The paper used to be thought of as liberal, but that was eons ago, at this point it [...]

The WikiLeaks story will have some legs for some time, which is probably a good thing. There are things to criticize WikiLeaks about, but in general the website is performing an invaluable [...]

The current “lame duck” session of Congress will at least partially be defined by a high-stakes game of political chicken (sorry to use two fowl metaphors in one sentence!) over New [...]

Veteran Washington Post writer David Broder is generally thought to be a decent guy, one of the “deans” of Washington journalism and punditry. I’m not a huge fan of his, I think [...]

The Washington Post and Associated Press reported yesterday the Obama Administration granted a waiver allowing continued US military aid to Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and [...]

Long-time scholar, author, professor and peace activist Larry Wittner, a member of the national Peace Action board of directors, has a new article on the state of public opinion and activism for [...]