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When Bush was president he made laws by asking lawyers to write secret memos “legalizing” blatant crimes, most famously torture. Bybee signed the worst of the torture memos and was rewarded with a nomination to a life-time seat as an appeals court judge in the Ninth Circuit (west coast) Continue reading

Americans want peace! Join the movement and show your support! Continue reading

Rethink Afghanistan is a Robert Greenwald’s new ground-breaking, full-length documentary focusing on the key issues surrounding this war. Continue reading

After Downing Street is a nonpartisan coalition working to expose the lies that create and sustain wars and occupations and to hold accountable those responsible. Continue reading

Congressman David Obey (D., Wis.), Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is in charge of spending our money. And until this recently, he has always maintained that spending hundreds of billions of our dollars on wars was something he just had no choice about. Now Obey has taken a step in the direction of joining us. (more) Continue reading

“This is so cool! This is so cool!” a thirteen-year-old boy repeated as he squeezed rounds from a real M-16, picking off “enemy combatants” in a video game while perched atop a real Army Humvee at the Army Experience Center (AEC). The 14,500-square-foot “virtual educational facility” is located in the Franklin Mills Mall in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Continue reading

Under Republican administration America’s middle class lost health insurance. Continue reading

Insurance industry runs a massive misinformation campaign to block Healthcare Insurance reform. Continue reading

Single-payer healthcare reform gets the foxes out of the henhouse. Medicare is clearly the best system for all Americans. Continue reading

Health Care Reform for Our Security. Continue reading

Medical bills cause 62% of US bankruptcies Continue reading

US is #1 in health care cost but #37 in quality. Continue reading

Honest Americans believe lies about healthcare reform. Continue reading

US military spending will top $1.175 trillion in 2009. Everyone who wants to make America strong, again, must arm themselves with information and understand the difference between spending for safety and paying for pork. Continue reading

President Obama vows to veto any defense bill that promotes defense contractor and Pentagon special interests rather than the life and death needs of U.S. troops. He criticized projects and weaponry geared toward the now-defunct Cold War rather than battling today’s insurgents in rugged terrain. Continue reading

Why do senators want to bust the budget for missile defense that doesn’t work and a fighter plane we don’t need? It is no coincidence that pieces of the F-22 are manufactured in 46 states; for more than a half-century, the services have been subcontracting out their most cherished weapons to as many congressional districts as possible in order to maximize political support. Continue reading

The American people recognize what Colin Powell told us a few years ago: the U.S. is running out of (serious) enemies. Without enemies formidable enough to warrant such cold-war spending levels, it is time to cut the military budget accordingly. Continue reading

Human beings are under attack by enemies so numerous and resourceful that we can not possibly survive the onslaught without help. Continue reading

Environmental Defense Fund is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are access to clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and flourishing ecosystems. Continue reading

As Alaskan waters warm and sea ice melts, fishers and scientists are seeing fish populations shift north and with that comes the threat of more commercial fishing. The Obama administration approved a plan to protect an area five times larger than all national parks combined. Continue reading

260 to 320 million more people may be affected by malaria as mosquitos move into newly warm areas. . . the spread of water-borne diseases increases…populations are forced to rely on less-clean water sources. . . It is encouraging that U.S. President Barack Obama has made climate change a priority. Continue reading

200 million people will celebrate Peace Day, participating in 10,000 events sponsored by 3000 organizations. Learn how to find an event in your neighborhood and tune into the first-ever 24-hour Peace Day web-cast. Continue reading

In 2008, in Afghanistan, The Taliban agreed to a three day ceasefire enabling 14,000 health workers to vaccinate 1.8 million children for Polio. In 2009, health workers will redouble their efforts during the Peace Day celebration and ceasefire. Continue reading

Pathways To Peace (PTP) is a non-profit, international peacebuilding. For 28 years PTP has helped to build Peace Day into a global phenomenon. Continue reading

In 2009, hundreds of publishers will print Peace Day on their calendars, reaching a billion people world wide. This all started with one man reaching out to a few friends. Continue reading

72% of troops on the ground in Iraq think U.S. military forces should get out of the country within a year, according to a Zogby poll released Tuesday. Continue reading

The U.S. military reported that Al Qaida has been recruiting teenagers as young as 14 for suicide and other attacks in Iraq. Continue reading

IVAW gives a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent. Continue reading

Obama administration seeks to end occupation of Iran on an expedited, but responsible basis. Defense Secretary Gates sees possibility of accelerated schedule. Continue reading

Swine Flu started in a small Mexican village next to an enormous pig feeding factory. Municipal health investigators indicated that flies feeding on tons of untreated pig feces may have transferred the flu to the villagers who died. Could this mean that the deadly strain of this virus is not transferred from human to human? Continue reading

Tar Heel, North Carolina, ground zero for the next Hog Farm to Human pandemic. America’s top pork producer churns out a sea of untreated waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in EPA history. Welcome to the dark side of the other white meat. Continue reading

Compassion in World Farming is working strategically toward a whole food system that is truly kind, caring and honest – kind to animals; caring for the environment and consumer health; and honestly labeled. – Philip Lymbery, Chief Executive. Continue reading

There is no evidence that eating pork gives you swine flu. There is significant evidence that buying meat and produce from livestock feeding factories and industrial farms endangers everybody’s heath. Continue reading

In a new Q&A written from Dubai, Carnegie’s Karim Sadjadpour discusses the president’s overture, its likely reception among Iranians, and next steps for U.S. policy makers. Continue reading

80% of Palestinians would support a large-scale non-violent protest movement and 56% would participate in its activities. 78% of Israeli Jews believe that the Palestinians have a legitimate right to seek a Palestinian state, provided that they use non-violent means. Continue reading

Foster, develop, defend, protect and further mobilize moderate American Muslims in their progress toward integration as an equal and respected religious community in the American interfaith environment. Continue reading

Remember 2001, Right Wing Republicans were pushing Americans to war with Iraq. Most of us supported the invasion. Now, we know that those Right Wing Republicans lied to us. Continue reading

The enormous stew of trash – which consists of 80 % plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers – floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man’s land between San Francisco and Hawaii. Continue reading

We all know our oceans are in trouble, but that trouble is coming on faster than some feared. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will reach 450 parts per million by the year 2050. As a result, this predicted pace will soon wipe out all coral reefs in existence. Continue reading

The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans, waves and beaches for all people, through conservation, activism, research and education. Continue reading

90% of the ocean’s big fish are gone. Worldwide seafood production skyrocketed then plummeted. 1950 – 19 million tons – 15.4 pounds per person. 1990 – 37 million tons – 37.4 pounds per person. Continue reading

The Obama Administration commits to a foreign policy that ensures the safety of the American people. President Obama denies the false division between our values and our security; the United States can be true to our values and ideals while also protecting the American people. Continue reading

Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is key to the US administration’s plans for the region. From the day he took office six months ago, Obama has made the search for peace between Israelis and Palestinians a priority. Continue reading

American voters are armed with all of the information we need to understand the horrors of war and how we can support the leaders who are seeking to end it. 87,000 US Weapons are unaccounted for in Afghanistan. Major US Corporations sell arms to right-wing dictatorships – even those that harbor terrorists. Continue reading

Their work for nonviolent revolution has spanned decades and been shaped by the new visions and strategies of each generation’s peacemakers. Continue reading

Global Warning and over development stirs up desert dust bowls. The dust darkens the surface of winter snows causing early melt down. This increases the danger of mid summer droughts. Continue reading

The environmental damage caused by mountaintop removal mining across Appalachia has been well documented. But scientists are now beginning to understand that the mining operations’ most lasting damage may be caused by the massive amounts of debris dumped into valley streams. Continue reading

Why Water? Right now, 1.1 billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean and safe drinking water. That’s one in six of us. Who is Charity: Water? Charity: Water is a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Continue reading

America’s rivers, lakes and wells run dry…The Farm Industry Wastes 1/3 of America’s Fresh Water…Freeloaders in the free market…Corporate Pirates Secretly Steal Public Water Works…Economic Democracy is the Answer. Continue reading

10% of all bird species are likely to disappear by the year 2100, and another 15% could be on the brink of extinction, according to a new study by Stanford University biologists. Continue reading

North American scientists studying West Nile Virus have shown that more diverse bird populations can help to buffer people against infection. Continue reading

Environment: Why care about red squirrels, tundra, blue beetles or little bluestem grasses? Three reasons, which boil down to self-interest. Continue reading

Diseases are evolving into strains that are far more dangerous and difficult to treat…New strains of tuberculosis, staff and e-coli resist our most powerful antibiotics – subjecting their victims to horrible deaths. Continue reading

Untested, unregulated gas drilling techniques could poison our water supply. Continue reading

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Rethink Afghanistan is a ground-breaking, full-length documentary focusing on the key issues surrounding this war. By releasing this film in parts for free online, we are able to stay on top of news of the war as it continues to unfold. We hope to raise critical questions regarding Afghanistan that Congress must address in oversight hearings, which inform the public and challenge policymakers… Continue reading

Some of the most successful political movements in the twentieth century have been based upon the principle of non-violence. However, Islamic political movements have remained relatively unaffected by widespread ideological moves towards non-violence, as these were generally developed in non-Muslim contexts; Mahatma Gandhi’s peaceful resistance against the British, for example, was never integrated into a Muslim religious framework. Continue reading

Manila, Philippines – Over 60 percent of Filipinos have a favorable opinion of Islam, believe Islam respects the beliefs of non-Muslims, and agree it is a peaceful religion, according to an opinion poll. Continue reading

Union of Concerned Scientists report finds that the oil company spent nearly $16 million to fund skeptic groups. Continue reading

President Barack Obama’s economic-stimulus program among the most progressive pieces of economic legislation since the 1960s. Continue reading

If we act now to implement President Barack Obama’s energy plan – which proposes investment in clean energy (and some badly needed jobs to boot) – we can avert a future in which the nation’s energy costs rise by $420 billion a year over the next five years. Continue reading

American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. Continue reading

Research reveals key to popularity of right wing wackos like Sarah Palin…We all know nice, smart people who become agitated and irrational when they think about Islamic religion, immigration and criminal justice. Continue reading

In one of the many tragic tales of environmental heroism, Ken Saro-Wiwa stood up to the oil giant Shell with peaceful demonstrations and vocal opposition—until he was executed by his own government on false charges. Continue reading

Those who stand in denial of climate change have failed to produce a simple peer-reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human-induced climate change. Continue reading

Retool weapons makers, redeploy military personnel and re-purpose military bases. Continue reading

Check out these examples of government agencies abusing powers to spy on americans who just want peace.. Continue reading

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates that US military spending equals all other countries combined. And, that’s just looking at the tip of America’s military spending iceberg (and ignoring at $400 billion in annual spending). Continue reading

“Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
-Hermann Goering, commander of the NAZI Air Force Continue reading

“The American Clean Energy and Security Act” is a comprehensive approach to America’s energy policy that charts a new course towards a clean energy economy. Continue reading

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The Pentagon has removed a controversial question from its anti-terrorism training exam that labeled “protests” a form of “low-level terrorism,” calling the question “poorly worded.” Continue reading

A written exam administered by the Pentagon labels “protests” as a form of “low-level terrorism” — enraging civil liberties advocates and activist groups who say it shows blatant disregard of the First Amendment. Continue reading

Newly leaked Pentagon documents have confirmed the military has been monitoring and collecting intelligence on anti-war groups across the country. Peace protests are being described as threats and the military is collecting data on who is attending demonstrations. We speak with William Arkin, the former Army intelligence officer, who obtained the secret Pentagon documents. Continue reading

Many Muslims see People in Western Culture as Selfish, Arrogant and Violent
Many Non-Muslims see Muslims as Fanatical, Viloent and Arrogant. Continue reading

Le Moyne College/Zogby Poll shows just one in five troops want to heed Bush call to stay “as long as they are needed” Continue reading

A simple Google search on the phrase “violence and Islam” will, more often than not, bring up Web sites that brand Islam as a violent and belligerent faith. Continue reading

Non-violence should never be confused with inaction or passivity. Non-violence is action in the full sense of the word. Rather it is more forceful an action than that of violence. It is a fact that non-violent activism is more powerful and effective than violent activism. Continue reading

The Dalai Lama said Sunday that “it’s totally wrong, unfair” to call Islam a violent religion. Continue reading

Whenever one wishes to speak about Islam as a religion of peace, the question
naturally springs to mind that whereas there are so many religions in the world such
as Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc., when it comes to finding out
whether Islam is a religion of peace, why should Islam be the odd one out? Continue reading

Pessimism among Israelis and Palestinians regarding the prospects for a settlement and a Palestinian state in the next few years, but majorities on both sides support a two-state solution.

Following Obama’s Cairo speech, Israelis’ pessimism decreased somewhat and support for the two-state solution increased slightly. Continue reading

(CNN) — In a new public opinion poll before Iran’s critical June 12 presidential election, by large margins, most Iranians said they support an American-Iranian rapprochement for bringing a new era of peace to the Middle East. Continue reading

WASHINGTON — Seventy-two percent of troops on the ground in Iraq think U.S. military forces should get out of the country within a year, according to a Zogby poll released Tuesday. Continue reading

It’s been more than a year since the death of 18-year-old Lucien Christalin, but memories of the Cambridge teen live on through the actions of his peers. Continue reading

United States seeks a “prompt resumption and early conclusion” of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Washington’s special Mideast envoy said after talks Wednesday with Palestinian leaders. Continue reading

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu threw a rhetorical bone to President Obama in his much anticipated speech on June 14, when he used the term “Palestinian state.” Continue reading

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is now closer to achieving peace, as government representatives start back-channeling efforts to finalize agenda and talking points when peace talks finally resume. Continue reading

DAMASCUS, Syria – Former President Jimmy Carter Thursday reiterated that there can be no peace between Israel and the Palestinians without involving the militant group Hamas. Continue reading

AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan’s King Abdullah urged Israel and Palestinians on Thursday to build on the momentum generated by U.S. President Barack Obama’s peace drive to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Continue reading

Green-collar workers — who include everyone from energy-efficiency consultants to wastewater plant operators — constitute a tiny but fast-growing segment of the U.S. economy, according to a study published today by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Continue reading

The proposal is based on one of the problems of conventional vehicles: the loss of kinetic energy during braking. This waste of energy leads to very high fuel consumption and, consequently, to an increase in CO2emissions. Continue reading

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host public meetings and accept public comments on its proposed Preferred Alternative plan that addresses the risks to human health and the environment at the Palos Verdes Shelf, located near Los Angeles, Calif. Continue reading