http://blog.peaceactionwest.org Grassroots action for a safer, more just world Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:09:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2012/01/27/pentagon-fudges-budget-cuts-and-funds-the-new-face-of-war/#comment-3160 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:09:38 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=3232#comment-3160 Hi Reva,
I have been part of Peace Action for the past couple of years, working as a canvasser and now as a member. I see the fundamental problem of allowing our tax money to go to a bottomless pit available to the Pentagons whims of war, be it Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia…, as the problem that haunts and taunts us throughout all out peace work. My question is, does Peace Action ever lobby to simply cut the defense budget to a level that would not even allow for extra spending beyond defense? This may sound like a silly question, but I ask myself and other’s this all the time, why can’t we regulate this, so that if the Pentagon needed money they would actually have to obtain voter approval directly?

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2009/04/06/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-nuclear-weapons-era/#comment-3157 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:32:57 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2009/04/06/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-nuclear-weapons-era/#comment-3157 IqqV3g dtubpclpancw

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2012/02/06/truth-lies-and-afghanistan-a-whistleblower-speaks/#comment-3155 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:06:26 +0000 http://peaceactionwest.wordpress.com/?p=3280#comment-3155 Think about it! The United States has not won a war since 1945! We fought to a draw in my war – Korea. We still have troops t the 38th Parallell. We ran with our tails shot off in Vietnam! We have not won anything in the Middle East except disdian from all the countries involved!

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2009/04/06/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-nuclear-weapons-era/#comment-3151 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:06:53 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2009/04/06/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-nuclear-weapons-era/#comment-3151 The Fissile Cutoff Treaty, in my oniipon, has been outmoded by passing events. Its relevance to arms control and treaty reductions does not have the importance it had during the Cold War. The superpowers are not really producing fissile materials for weapons, and the main problem is to urge them to expand the process of fissile-material conversion to reactor grade so that nuclear weapons can be irreversibly demilitarized.Demilitarization of weapon-grade nuclear materials is an ongoing and commercially successful activity, especially for France, Russia, and the United States, and it is the way to go to support meaningful and irreversible nuclear reductions.One of the problems with the FMCT is that its proponents have long been co-opted by individuals who have an agenda of minimizing or interfering with the growth of nuclear reactors around the world. However, nuclear reactors are exactly what’s needed to the commercially successful and irreversible conversion of existing fissile materials. –Alex DeVolpiIncidentally, I like your communication outreach through Facebook and this Blog.

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2009/10/26/unmanned-drones-the-future-of-war/#comment-3130 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:18:39 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=1059#comment-3130 [...] ops and drones represented in this budget. It’s an important reminder that the new face of war, as practiced by the Obama administration, isn’t any prettier than the old one. From Dayen: [...]

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2009/12/14/unmanned-drones-in-pakistan/#comment-3129 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:18:36 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=1176#comment-3129 [...] to covert ops and drones represented in this budget. It’s an important reminder that the new face of war, as practiced by the Obama administration, isn’t any prettier than the old one. From [...]

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2009/05/18/sight-seeing-and-friend-making-in-tehran/#comment-3109 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:42:05 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=428#comment-3109 Hi
pls omit this comments about my friend. I’m sure that you aren’t right about this issue. thanks alot
rezaei

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2012/01/11/oregon-suzanne-bonamici-needs-your-help/#comment-3107 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:18:14 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=3226#comment-3107 You’re incorrect, and misleading.
Incorrect in that, voters will decide in *more* than 2 weeks (Jan. 31st, to be precise).
Misleading in that “thousands of dollars” aren’t coming into this race… *Millions* of dollars are, from D.C. special interest groups… to help Bonamici.
I don’t know how many people read this blog, but you’re doing every last one of them a disservice.

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2012/01/03/are-you-smarter-than-the-pentagon/#comment-3102 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:25:59 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=3217#comment-3102 Yes. You bet I’m smarter than the Pentagon. If I had my way there would be no military budget at all and the dude who rules the Fed would be washing dishes in a German restaurant. The point it, the Pentagon is only a pile of stones, steel, cement, etc. all woven together in warp and woof intricacies. It has no arms, it has no brain, it is not smart within the normal denote of that word. If the question actually refers to the warmongers housed in Pengaton office, they’re very smart people, but the danger to our U.S.America rest upon how their brains are programmed, constituting a rigid paradigm from which they cannot escape. Pity poor U.S.America.

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2011/10/10/our-message-to-the-deficit-super-committee/#comment-3097 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:07:29 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=3085#comment-3097 [...] The New York Times reported, however, that the Pentagon hadn’t even made contingency plans for cuts because they were afraid they would leak to the media and prove that it is in fact perfectly reasonable to make significant cuts to the Pentagon’s budget. The experts in the Sustainable Defense Task Force managed to identify nearly a trillion dollars that could be cut in the next decade without detrimental effects on US security. (You can read our recommendations to the deficit super committee here.) [...]

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