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I’m going to tear my hair out if I have to hear any more false complaints about what Pentagon budget cuts would supposedly do to our security—everything from making us a “second rate” power [...]

One of the best ways to reduce the deficit is to put people back to work.  It’s time to invest in our people, and our communities. Let’s create stable jobs at living wages, rehabilitate our [...]

The so-called “fiscal cliff” has been averted—for now. While most of us were celebrating and blissfully ignoring congressional drama, the House and Senate passed a year-end deal that primarily [...]

                      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 [...]

Let’s push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff! Well maybe that’s not a good metaphor. Regardless, in the nonsense about the “fiscal cliff” here in your nation’s [...]

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) is offering an amendment to end the war in Afghanistan, and the Senate could vote very soon. Please call your senators now and tell them to vote YES on Sen. Merkley’s [...]

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 [...]

Great piece by Roxane Assaf of Chicago Area Peace Action on Huffington Post yesterday. Fossile Fuel Fury: Climate change Activist Barnstorms Through 21 Towns Inciting Fiscal Revolution If Noam [...]

Once again, our tax dollars are at work as Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza escalates, including a potential ground invasion. The violence on both sides must end, including the rocket [...]

The energy last night was contagious as cheers echoed throughout the bar where Peace Action West staff gathered to watch the election results come in. Last night was a rejection of the dangerous [...]