Peace

                
  • Russia suspends role in European arms treaty

    Russia suspends role in European arms treaty

    July 20, 2007

    In a move many observers related to U.S. plans to install an anti-missile system in Eastern Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 14 signed a decree stating that Russia would suspend its participation in the...

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  • Iraq veteran says soldiers turning against war

    Iraq veteran says soldiers turning against war

    July 20, 2007

    Jimmy Massey, a founding member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), says active-duty soldiers and their families are turning against the Iraq war as more and more learn the nation was duped into the war...

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  • How many more must die?  In Senate showdown, Democrats demand withdrawal date

    How many more must die? In Senate showdown, Democrats demand withdrawal date

    July 20, 2007

    WASHINGTON — Democrats kept the U.S. Senate in session all night, July 17-18, seeking to stop Republican efforts to block a vote on pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq within 120 days. At 11 a.m. July...

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  • Rumblings in suburbia for peace, free speech

    Rumblings in suburbia for peace, free speech

    July 13, 2007

    DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. — For peace activists, being in west suburban Chicago often feels like being behind enemy lines. But fissures are developing in this land of right-wing heavies like Republican Reps. Dennis Hastert and Peter...

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  • Impeach the system

    Impeach the system

    July 13, 2007

    Abridged from remarks delivered at a July 1 antiwar demonstration in Kennebunkport, Maine, when President Bush came to town. I was born in 1946 just as World War II ended. I remember the Korean War, 1953....

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