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I’m climbing out from under an enormous pile of work because I want to get you this really quick but crucial update on the fruits of our labor over this entire summer. Just hours ago the [...]

When I first sat down to write this, I planned to ask you to support peaceful solutions in Afghanistan, but I can’t ignore what’s happening in Pakistan right now. The floods have left [...]

Yesterday The San Francisco Chronicle ran “S.F. shop closes after Iran sanctions ban rugs.” Rebecca Griffin of Peace Action West contributed to the OpEd, which relates how sanctions [...]

The LA Times has the latest evidence that Iran sanctions are not working: well-connected businesses and government operations are dodging the sanctions. Even more shocking, some profit directly [...]

WikiLeaks continues to shed light on the US strategy in Afghanistan. According to the Washington Post, the documents show just how little the war in Afghanistan is about hunting down al-Qaeda [...]

This week, a Washington Post writer called out Republican hypocrisy by examining Republican support for The Moscow Treaty, negotiated under President Bush. The Moscow Treaty passed unanimously in [...]

While the media was obsessed with its favorite kidnapping story, they have failed to notice that Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has been holding our security hostage by using partisan tactics to delay [...]

See more photos of my 2009 trip to Iran here. Amidst the constant political posturing on Iran, most people at least acknowledge that measures should be taken to minimize the impact of sanctions [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0dm07G9ud8&feature=player_embedded] One thing that keeps me going in our challenging work to end wars is the confidence that there are some members of [...]

Conservative politicians and pundits have been working to normalize the idea of military strikes on Iran. The newest ploy is to help open the way for an Israeli strike. If Israel did attack Iran, [...]