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Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights held a hearing entitled “Drone Wars: The Constitutional and Counterterrorism [...]

Today, we joined our friends at Oregon PSR on a piece in The Oregonian on how Congress’s actions on Iran are making it easier to go to war. Last week marked one decade since the invasion of [...]

Ten years after the tragic invasion of Iraq, Congress seems to have forgotten the lessons of that disastrous war. We told you about a new bill that would put the Senate on record urging military [...]

John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, faced the Senate Intelligence Committee today. This was a rare opportunity to have congressional discussion on drones and other aspects of [...]

Today, for the first time, the Senate took a roll call vote in favor of bringing our troops home from Afghanistan. This morning, Senator Merkley’s amendment to bring our troops home from [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Retaliation against US personnel overseas. $8-a-gallon gas. A spreading Middle East War. An Iranian regime driven to pursue a nuclear weapon. Experts recognize all of these as likely consequences [...]

It was surprising enough to hear this week that Republican C.W. Bill Young of Florida made a u-turn and called for an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan. But Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), [...]

Presidential candidates are terrified of looking weak on security — especially in the final weeks before an election. And anti-Iran hawks are doing everything they can to exploit this [...]