War & Peace
"If the government won't stop the war, we'll stop the government."
-Slogan of Vietnam Anti-War Protestors in Washington, DC 5/1/71
Headlines
- 03/06/10 - Should Progressives Give Up on Obama?
- 03/03/10 - Obama's Budget Revealed: Money for Wars and Weapons, But Not for Jobs and Social Programs
- 03/02/10 - A Future for Agriculture, A Future for Haiti
- 03/02/10 - Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack Obama
- 02/01/10 - 'Peace Prize' President Submits Largest War Budget Ever
- 01/31/10 - The Anti-War Peace Movement Needs a Re-Start
- 01/28/10 - The Sorry State of the Union
- 01/25/10 - The Obama Brand: Feel Good While Overlords Loot the Treasury and Launch Imperial Wars
- 01/25/10 - Legacy of War: Iraq Farmlands and Cities Suffer High Levels of Nuclear and Dioxin Contamination
- 01/19/10 - Turning Martin Luther King's Dream Into a Nightmare
- 01/18/10 - We’ve Ignored Martin Luther King's Teachings on War
- 01/11/10 - President Obama's Secret: Only 100 al Qaeda Now in Afghanistan
- 01/06/10 - Blowback Effect: The World in 2020
- 01/06/10 - US-Led Forces Accused of Executing Schoolchildren
- 01/04/10 - Iraq Veterans Against the War Speak Out
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The GNA Platform:
Press the politicians
to support:
- A rapid withdrawal of all U.S. military forces and armed private contractors from Iraq within 120 days.
- A dismantling of all US military bases in the Mideast region.
- Stepped up diplomacy with Iran, rather than belligerence, coupled with a no war pledge.
- An end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
- The restoration of 100% Iraqi control and sovereignty over their oil resources.
- Redirecting 50% of military funding toward social needs at home, as well as humanitarian and reconstruction aid to the Iraqi people.
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Resources
Voters for Peace
Partners with GNA
Kevin Zeese of Voters for Peace urges the netroots to send the GNA survey to their elected officials & candidates. View Video Alert Here.
A Climate of War
On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, a new report from Oil Change International, entitled A Climate of War quantifies both the greenhouse gas emissions of the Iraq War and the opportunity costs involved in fighting war rather than climate change.
5 Years
Too Many
Campaign staging protests across the country in support of a full withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
Body Of War
A feature documentary that follows the story of a young man who served 1 week in Iraq before being sent home, severely injured and at odds with the reasons that brought him there. View Trailer Here.
Featured Websites
Information Clearinghouse
This site compiles Iraq war statistics & coverage of underreported stories.
