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Poll: Health Care, Social Security Rated as Top Budget Priorities
by Angus Reid Public Opinion As a new Congress prepares to take office in January, Americans believe that Health Care and Social Security should account for a large proportion of the country’s next...
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Will Senate Republicans Torpedo the New START Treaty?
By Lawrence S. Wittner As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote this December on ratification of the New START Treaty, Republican legislators appear on the verge of producing an international disaster. From...
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Why North Korea’s Attack is Not a Crisis
By Joe Cirincione and Paul Carroll Headlines and pundits once again declare that we have a crisis on our hands in the wake of discovering that North Korea is building a new nuclear reactor and a...
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Peace Workers Must Commit to the Long Haul
by Peter Bergel Former U.S. Poet Laureate William Stafford wrote in his journal on March 20, 1990, “Artists and peace workers are in it for the long haul and not to be judged by immediate results....
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Anti-Earmark Tea Party Caucus Takes $1 Billion in Earmarks
By Reid Wilson Members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus may tout their commitment to cutting government spending now, but they used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that, taken...
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Reader: Tea Party is “Grossly Racist”
by Ron Lowe Let’s cut to the chase about the Tea Party. Do you want to spend another year listening to their hypocrisy and tomfoolery? Could it be that Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, the Tea Party, and...
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We Are in a Lynch-Mob Moment
By Tom Hayden We know that conservatives are extremists for order, but why have so many liberals lost their minds and joined the frenzy over Julian Assange and WikiLeaks? As the secrets of power are...
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The Values That Underlie Peace
By Robert Rack I happened into a conversation with man sitting next to me on a plane ten or fifteen years ago that today seems almost prophetic. It was one of those gradual conversations that can...
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White House Dries Out Moral Collapse in Spin Cycle
By Norman Solomon On December 5th, in a column about economic policy, Paul Krugman focused on “moral collapse” at the White House — “a complete failure of purpose and loss of direction.” Meanwhile,...
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Looking Back on the Nuclear Freeze and Its Impact
by Lawrence S. Wittner In Oregon, the Nuclear Freeze movement was led by Citizen Action for Lasting Security, one of the organizations that later merged into Oregon PeaceWorks. As we end one year and...
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Nissan Hopes Zero-Emission Leaf Will Electrify Drivers
by SpaceMart Staff Writers Billed as the world’s first mass-produced electric car, this month’s launch of the Nissan Leaf is expected to send a jolt through an auto industry racing to build greener...
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New START Treaty: a Win for the US and the World
By Don Kraus The United States Senate has agreed to the New START Treaty. The bilateral nuclear arms treaty passed with bipartisan support by a 71 to 26 margin. The roll call vote came after months of...
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No Nuke Loan Guarantees in New Government Bill
By Michael Mariotte Citizen lobbyists sent more than 15,000 letters to Congress in December and made many, many phone calls to stop $8 billion in taxpayer loans for new nuclear reactor construction....
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A New Year: Time to Envision, Demand Peace
By Michael True “The same war continues,” Denise Levertov wrote, in “Life at War.” Her lament is even more appropriate for 2011 than as it was when she wrote the poem forty-five years ago. Columnists...
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NYT Columnist Exposes Big Military Taboo
By Nicholas D. Kristof We face wrenching budget cutting in the years ahead, but there’s one huge area of government spending that Democrats and Republicans alike have so far treated as sacrosanct. It’s...
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