Obama Refuses to Sign Arms Trade Treaty

By Shazia Z. Rafi, in Women’s Media Center, Aug. 7, 2012. “Yes, yes the calculations are correct, we bill the Navy cost plus 14 percent,” said my boss at General Electric’s aircraft... Read more »

The Cuban Experience: Better health on a budget?

By Conner Gorry, in Irish Times, Aug. 14, 2012. Levelling the playing field in an effort to provide ‘health for all’ is effective and noble, but is it sustainable? ‘We were so... Read more »

USPC Greets the Veterans for Peace 27th Annual Convention with Message of Solidarity

August 6, 2012 To President Leah Bolger: The members of the US Peace Council send their warmest greetings of solidarity to our Comrades and friends of  Veterans for Peace. You exemplify the... Read more »

World Peace Council Resolution on Trial of International Crimes of 1971 in Bangladesh

The Assembly of the WPC, meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal, expresses its support to the trial of the war criminals of the Bangladesh Liberation war of 1971. It ardently desires to see the... Read more »

World Peace Council Resolution in Solidarity with People of Palestine

The Assembly of the World Peace Council, held in Kathmandu, Nepal, reaffirms its solidarity with the struggle of Palestinian people for their just cause and for the end of the occupation of... Read more »

World Peace Council Resolution on Unexploded Ordnance in Laos

Unexploded ordnance (UXO) still kills people in Laos. Parallel with the Vietnam War, the USA waged an undeclared war in Laos in the 1960’s and 1970’s. They dropped three million tons of... Read more »

Statement of Veterans For Peace: The Solution to the Nuclear “Crisis” with Iran is not Sanctions and War, It is a Middle East Free of All Nuclear Weapons

We are once again on the verge of another disastrous war in the Middle East.  The United States and its allies in Europe and the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia and Qatar,... Read more »

Iran Sanctions: War by Other Means

By Conn Hallinan Foreign Policy in Focus July 13, 2012 — Now that the talks with Iran on its nuclear program appear to be on the ropes, are we on the road... Read more »