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Supreme Court OK’s violent video games

June 28, 2011 By Blake Skylar

Are violent video games dangerous for young minds and is the U.S. military using such games as a way to recruit young people to go to war?

Real peace and fake doves

June 24, 2011 By PW Editorial Board

Public pressure will be essential to bring all the troops home, but another big struggle will be to ensure that the war dollars are used to create jobs and fund human needs.

Peace leader: Obama pullout speech a beginning to build on

June 23, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

Judith LeBlanc, field director of Peace Action, said President Obama reflected the views of a majority when he called for "nation-building here at home" in his June 22 speech announcing troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.

Mayors call for quick end to Afghan war

June 20, 2011 By Jim Baldridge

The U.S. Conference of Mayors approved a resolution June 20 calling for a quick end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and transfer of the money to job-creating programs in our nation's cities.

Who should pay for the Iraq war?

June 14, 2011 By Susan Webb

On a trip to Baghdad last week, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., enraged Iraqi officials by saying that Iraq should repay the U.S. for the cost of the war.