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Call Senator Collins on Wednesday, April 30th to cosponsor S. 594!
April 30 is the anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the official end of the U.S. war in Vietnam. Massive amounts of deadly cluster munitions remain in SE Asia indiscriminately killing and maiming civilians 33 years later. Take 5 minutes from your day and call Senator Collins and ask her to cosponsor the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act (S. 594). read more »
PAM Peace Supper, April 26, 2008
Join us for food, presentations on our 2008 programs, speakers and our Annual Peacemaker Awards
Keynote Speaker: Frida Berrigan
Frida Berrigan is Senior Program Associate of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation. Previously, she served for eight years as Deputy Director and Senior Research Associate at the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute at the New School in New York City. She has also worked as a researcher at The Nation magazine. read more »
Under Iraq Troop Pact, U.S. Can't Leave Any Forces Behind
BAGHDAD — The status of forces of agreement between the United States and Iraq is now called the withdrawal agreement, and that’s exactly what it is: an ultimate end to the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.
If Iraq’s parliament endorses the agreement, in six weeks American forces would have to change the way they operate in Iraq, and all U.S. combat troops, police trainers and military advisers would have to leave the country by Dec. 31, 2011. President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign plan to leave a residual force of some 30,000 American troops in Iraq would be impossible under the pact. read more »
Pentagon Board Says Cuts Essential
WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a series of bluntly worded briefings, is warning President-elect Barack Obama that the Defense Department’s current budget is “not sustainable,” and he must scale back or eliminate some of the military’s most prized weapons programs. read more »
A NUCLEAR NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK:The Cold War's Missing Atom Bombs
In a 1968 plane crash, the US military lost an atom bomb in Greenland’s Arctic ice. But this was no isolated case. Up to 50 nuclear warheads are believed to have gone missing during the Cold War, and not all of them are in unpopulated areas. read more »
"Obama's Victory - Fear and Hope"
Commentary No. 245
The whole of the United States and indeed the whole world was watching, and almost all of it was cheering, the election of Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. Although, during the electoral campaign, everyone tried to play down the centrality of the racial issue, on Nov. 4 it seemed that no one could talk of anything else. There are three central questions about what most commentators are calling this “historic event”: How important is it? What explains the victory? What is likely to happen now? read more »
The Case for U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Sameer Dossani,November 10, 2008
Editor: Emily Schwartz Greco
Foreign Policy In Focus
www.fpif.org
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. read more »
WHIRLWIND MAINE TOUR FOR NEW NATIONAL HEAD OF NAACP
WHIRLWIND MAINE TOUR FOR NEW NATIONAL HEAD OF NAACP
PORTLAND, November 10 –The newly-installed head of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization will spend a whirlwind day in Maine next month, visiting his father’s high school alma mater, meeting prisoners and officials at the Maine State Prison at Warren, and delivering the keynote address in Portland at the 60th anniversary celebration of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. read more »
