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RedditPeace Action (www.peace-action.org), the largest grassroots peace group in the United States, has made stopping NMD and reducing nuclear weapons its top priority, sponsoring call-ins, a "missile-stop tour" and issue ads that are scheduled to run against key Republican senators who voted against the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The website of the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers (www.crnd.org) offers the single best source of critical analysis and is chock-full of good links.
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Dorothy Day's Day
Colman McCarthy: The movement she inspired--passionate, pacifist and siding with the scorned--is seventy-five and going strong.
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Daniel Berrigan: Forty Years After Catonsville
Chris Hedges: Time and age have not blunted his fierce critique of American empire and his radical interpretation of the Gospels.
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Vermont Students Join May 1 War Protests
Benjamin Dangl: As West Coast dockworkers stopped work at twenty-nine ports on May Day, students in Vermont took antiwar protests to the offices of a General Dynamics plant.
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A Misunderstanding on Iraq
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Progressives who support Barack Obama must use the primary race help shape his policies on Iraq.
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Labor's War on Global Warming
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello & Brendan Smith: Together, unions can force the government to take on the issue of green-collar jobs.
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Israeli Army Vets Speak Out
Eyal Press: Breaking the Silence comes to America.
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Antiwar Group Collapses
Tom Hayden: Tom Matzzie, leader of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, has resigned his position and dissolved a major and well-funded coalition of anti-war groups.
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Avoiding the Toughness Trap
William D. Hartung: Candidates should rethink their commitment to outmoded security tools and veiled nuclear threats against nonnuclear states.
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Exporting Instability
William D. Hartung: Mideast stability can't be promoted with arms any more than democracy can be imposed through the barrel of a gun.
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Needed: A New Security Plan
William D. Hartung: The failure of Bush's foreign policy should open the way for Democrats to present substantial alternatives and rethink what makes us safe. Sadly, that is not happening.
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Where's 'Real Security'?
William D. Hartung: Instead of parroting the Republicans' "tough" approach to national security, Democratic candidates should distinguish themselves from the Bush Administration by, for starters, setting a date for withdrawal from Iraq.
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Battling the Pentagon
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Outsourcing Is Hell
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Making Money on Terrorism
William D. Hartung: The Bush Administration's apparent motto: "Leave no defense contractor behind."
On the right, a new group chaired by the Center for Security Policy's Frank Gaffney (www.protectamericans.now) is planning to run ads designed to scare the hell out of everyone about the dangers of foreign ballistic missiles, then get them to go to the group's website and punch in their ZIP code for a "customized" assessment of the missile threat to their neighborhood.
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