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If “violence is a dead end,” why are we paying for it?

In President Obama’s much-praised, criticized and analyzed speech in Cairo, he condescended at one point to lecture the Palestinians on their use of violence, contrasting it with the nonviolent strategy and tactics of African-American for their civil rights: “Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. For centuries, black [...]

Worldwide Spending on Weapons Hits All-Time High - Tell Congress, ENOUGH!

Worldwide military spending on arms hit an all-time high last year, according to a new report.  In 2008, over $1.4 TRILLION was spent on weapons in 2008.  The United States is responsible for 42% of the spending, which is more than the next 14 countries combined. Not coincidentally, the US Congress continues to debate Obama’s Supplemental bill [...]

Mourn the Dead, and Fight Like Hell for the Living

In the kitchen the other night, I was thinking about my nephew, the Marine lieutenant, and suddenly these words flashed through my mind: “I want him to come to my funeral. I don’t want to go to his funeral.” A few years ago, when my family gathered for my father’s funeral, the only thing that comforted [...]

Official release: CODEPINK denounces Obama plan for Afghanistan

The view of Gaza from Tulkarem…

Ariel Vegosen, a Jewish peace activist based in New York City and CODEPINKer, has been visiting Israel and Palestine for the past month and was there when Israel began its attack on Gaza. She wrote this piece on her experience from Tulkarem, Palestine: How do you stop a war? A genocide? A mass killing? First, you have [...]

Deepak Chopra sends New Year message of peace to Obama

On New Year’s Day, Deepak Chopra sends this letter to President-Elect Obama on how to create peace.  Join CODEPINK in making a personal New Year’s Resolution for Peace here. 9 Steps To Peace for Obama in the New Year by Deepak Chopra You have been elected by the first anti-war constituency since 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was [...]

Flight to Amman

Hello everyone, Sally writing from Amman, Jordan. I’m wearing a couple hats here - I’m a very active member and at times spokeswoman for Code Pink, but I’m also a law student, and I’m traveling with Yale Law School’s Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP). IRAP helps displaced Iraqis get official refugee status from the UN [...]

Fayetteville Observer: “Whatever preventive action is being taken at Fort Bragg, it isn’t enough.”

Retired Col. Ann Wright writes her response to a recent scathing editorial in Tuesday’s Fayetteville Times on the military’s shameful downplay of high rates of male soldiers sexual assaulting, raping and murdering female soldiers. The editorial was inspired by Wright — who served 29 years in the Army and in the State Department but publicly resigned [...]

U.S. military men sexually assault one-third of fellow female soldiers

Three years ago, an American soldier LaVena Johnson of Missouri bought candy, soda and lip balm one night near her base in Iraq. She went to meet friends to go jogging. But she never made it — her body was found the next day in a burning tent with a broken nose, black eye, and [...]