Ten Facts You Should Know, That You Probably Don't Know
1) Attacking Iran would be a War Crime because it would be a war of aggression and a violation of International Law.
2) Iran possesses NO nuclear weapons.
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Contact Your Congressional Member Today!
Peace Action, the national organization that Nebraskans for Peace is affiliated with, has issued the following action alert to all of their members. We encourage you to act now!
Every month there's a new disaster that shows the absurdity of the claim that keeping tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan is in the interests of Americans or of Afghans.
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America owes a debt of gratitude to the activists who opposed the Iraq war from the start, and who kept the pressure on.
By Tom Hayden
Los Angeles Times
December 15, 2011
As the United States completes its withdrawal from Iraq, it is worth pausing to remember the determined peace activists who opposed the war from the start, including one who took up their cause and became president.
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Annual Peace Conference Speaker Urges
Cuts in Military Spending to Fund Domestic Needs
Peace Action Executive Director Kevin Martin was the featured speaker at the 2011 Annual Peace Conference this past October 15 in Lincoln. Martin, who has headed up Peace Action’s Washington, D.C.-based national office since 2001, made this visit to Nebraska in part to personally welcome NFP as an affiliate member to what is the largest peace organization in the U.S. with 100,000 members nationwide.
The following article, written by Martin specifically for the Nebraska Report, touches on the main points of his annual conference address, and Peace Action’s timely new campaign during the federal deficit debate to “Move the Money!”
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(and our Nebraska federal officials)
To Cut Military Spending —
Not Funding for Domestic ProgramsWith just one week to go, Congress’s ‘supercommittee’ is racing to come up with a bipartisan plan to reduce the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion over the next decade.
On the table for discussion are cuts in military spending and domestic programs like Medicare, Social Security and education, as well as higher taxes for the wealthy.
Congressional failure to adopt a plan yet this year will trigger automatic cuts of $500 billion to the Pentagon and an equal amount on domestic spending.
The Pentagon is wailing that it’s already agreed to cut its budget by $450 billion over the next ten years — and that another $500 billion in cuts would leave America militarily weak and defenseless.
But as NFP has repeatedly argued this past year, Congress could easily cut our national security budget in half — by $500 billion A YEAR! — and America would still be the greatest military power on earth. Between the unnecessary weapons systems, our superfluous military bases in Germany and Japan, and the Pentagon’s chronic inability to account for literally trillions in appropriations, we’re just throwing money at the military nowadays.
As Lawrence Korb, an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan Administration, just stated in the New York Times November 9, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
grossly exaggerates when he says it would be disastrous if projected levels of defense spending are reduced by an additional $500 billion if the bipartisan ‘supercommittee’ deadlocks and automatic cuts go into effect. Adding $500 billion to the $450 billion already being cut would mean total reductions of $950 billion over the next decade, or about 15 percent…
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