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How is it that the Radical Right can work itself into such a lather over Obamacare but seems content to allow the free-spending Pentagon to continue dispensing hundreds of billions of dollars each and every year without ever having to meet an audit?  They don’t have the faintest clue as to where all that money […]

 Tuesday, Oct. 8th - National Teach-In on Syria & US Policy in the Region 6:30 to 7:30 pm EST Live Streaming at  http://www.busboysandpoets.com/videos/live-streaming The civil war continues in Syria. Although a threat of a US. missile attack against Syria was averted, the raging civil war continues. The massive outpouring of anti-war sentiment from the people in every corner […]

 Tuesday, Oct. 8th - National Teach-In on Syria & US Policy in the Region 6:30 to 7:30 pm EST Live Streaming at  http://www.busboysandpoets.com/videos/live-streaming The civil war continues in Syria. Although a threat of a US. missile attack against Syria was averted, the raging civil war continues. The massive outpouring of anti-war sentiment from the people in every corner […]

No to US Wars; No to Warlords; No to Women's Oppression Featuring Malalai Joya and Noam Chomsky October 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Location: First Parish Cambridge (Meeting House), 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, {Harvard Square area), Cambridge Event Navigation [ http://masspeaceaction.org/even

Shattered Hopes: "Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace" *Josh Reubner, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation* September 29 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm First Parish, 3 Church Street, Cambridge Event Navigation [ http://masspeaceaction.org/event/shattered-hopes-obamas-fai

The Island Now Thursday, September 26, 2013 By Bill San Antonio As the executive director of Peace Action, the nation’s largest grassroots disarmament organization, Kevin Martin said Tuesday he has seen firsthand the militarization of the United States’ foreign policy in the last decade. But in his lecture at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation entitled “Endless […]

Tuesday, Oct. 8th National Teach-In on Syria & US Policy in the Region 6:30 to 7:30 pm EST Live Streaming at http://www.busboysandpoets.com/videos/live-streaming With developments unfolding rapidly, it is still uncertain how things will play out in Syria. A few weeks ago our nation was on the brink of yet another deadly military mistake. At the […]

Tuesday, Oct. 8th National Teach-In on Syria & US Policy in the Region 6:30 to 7:30 pm EST Live Streaming at http://www.busboysandpoets.com/videos/live-streaming With developments unfolding rapidly, it is still uncertain how things will play out in Syria. A few weeks ago our nation was on the brink of yet another deadly military mistake. At the […]

Tuesday, Oct. 8th National Teach-In on Syria & US Policy in the Region 6:30 to 7:30 pm EST Live Streaming at http://www.busboysandpoets.com/videos/live-streaming With developments unfolding rapidly, it is still uncertain how things will play out in Syria. A few weeks ago our nation was on the brink of yet another deadly military mistake. At the […]

*"The Budget for All campaign issues a call for an….."* *Emergency Response to Threat of Congressional Republicans **to Shut Down the Government **on October 1:* "Unless a Federal Budget is passed by October 1: " Tens of thousands will be thrown out of work, Payments to active duty s

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/24/remarks-president-obama-address-united-nations-general-assembly  United Nations New York, New York 10:10 A.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen:  Each year we come together to reaffirm the founding vision of this institution.  For most of recorded history, individual aspirations were subject to the whims of tyrants and empires.  Divisions of race and […]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/24/remarks-president-obama-address-united-nations-general-assembly  United Nations New York, New York 10:10 A.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen:  Each year we come together to reaffirm the founding vision of this institution.  For most of recorded history, individual aspirations were subject to the whims of tyrants and empires.  Divisions of race and […]

  UN chief urges world leaders to answer demands of their people for dignity, development http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45950&Cr=General+Debate&Cr1=#.UkHLHWQ4U6F 24 September 2013 – Declaring that “leadership makes the difference,” United NationsSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged heads of State and Government gathered in New York to “hear the call of history” and, through hard work, commitment and integrity, answer the just demands […]

Who will be at the United Nations (UN) this week? President Obama, Iranian President Rouhani and Peace Action!  Why? This week the UN General Assembly convenes its annual meeting and the first ever General Assembly sponsored High Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament will be held. The UN is the most important international institution which brings […]

Who will be at the United Nations (UN) this week? President Obama, Iranian President Rouhani and Peace Action!  Why? This week the UN General Assembly convenes its annual meeting and the first ever General Assembly sponsored High Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament will be held. The UN is the most important international institution which brings […]

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Syria, Iran, and a more peaceful, democratic foreign policy For the past few months, Peace Action has helped convene an ad hoc national coalition that successfully stopped a U.S. attack on Syria, at least for now. While this was quite a victory, much remains to be done. There is a chance congressional warmongers may try […]

Syria, Iran, and a more peaceful, democratic foreign policy For the past few months, Peace Action has helped convene an ad hoc national coalition that successfully stopped a U.S. attack on Syria, at least for now. While this was quite a victory, much remains to be done. There is a chance congressional warmongers may try […]

Nuclear Weapons: Time for Reductions President Obama has repeatedly and eloquently spoken about the need to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Even as a student at Harvard Law School he wrote papers on the horrific threats to humanity posed by nuclear weapons. As President, he has c