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• Obama Administration
  • Obama: peace president or war president? (Nov/December 2009)
  • Surprised Obama awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (NOv/December 2009)
  • President Barack Obama reclaims American values (Jan/February 2009)
  • Can Obama take on the Pentagon? (Jan/February 2009)
  • Hope realized in Obama election (Nov/December 2008)
    
    
• Pakistan
  • Pakistan’s nuclear folly (May/June 2011)
  • Armed conflict in Pakistan leads to polio spike (May/June 2011)
  • Pakistan army chief condemns U.S. drone attack (March/April 2011)
  • $1 billion for U.S. embassies in Pakistan, Afghanistan (Sept/October 2009)
  • Crisis in Pakistan increases mistrust of U.S. (May/June 2009)
  • Pakistan won’t be first in nuclear strike (Nov/December 2008)
    
    
• Patriot Act
  • Patriot Act operations classified ‘secret' (May/June 2011)
  • Patriot Act unconstitutional (Jan/February 2004)
    
    
• Peace & Activism
  • Widow of Andrei Sakharov dies at 88 (July/August 2011)
  • To win peace, restore the Peace Corps (Nov/December 2008)
  • Activist faith stays burning - Jim Wallis (Nov/December 2008)
  • Daniel Berrigan at 87 (May/June 2008)
  • Blind SOA activist chooses jail time (May/June 2008)
  • Queen of Jordan works to empower women (Jan/February 2008)
  • 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to U.N. Climate Change Panel and Al Gore (Nov/Dec 2007)
  • IN MEMORIAM: Randall Forsberg - A Soldier for Peace (Nov/December 2007)
  • 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to microloan pioneers (Nov/December 2006)
  • Ammon Hennacy, Christian anarchist (July/August 2006)
  • Relevance of Gandhi (Jan/February 2006)
  • 2005 Nobel Peace Prize to nuclear agency (Nov/December 2005)
  • IN MEMORIAM: Joseph Rotblat (Sept/October 2005)
  • 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to academic and activist (Nov/December 2004)
  • Peace Action national congress 2004
  • Pacifist and 16 (Jan/February 2004)
  • M. L. King Jr America has ignored (Jan/February 2004)
  • 2003 Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian lawyer (Nov/December 2003)
  • The price of peace (Sept/October 2003)
  • Plowshares nuns sentenced (July/August 2003)
  • IN MEMORIAM: Philip Berrigan (Jan/February 2003)
  • 2002 Nobel Peace Prize to Jimmy Carter (Nov/December 2002)
  • A Passionate Education (Sept/October 2002)
  • Teach Peace, Not War [Colman McCarthy] (Nov/December 2001)
  • 2001 Nobel Peace Prize to U.N. & Kofi Annan (Nov/December 2001)
  • 2000 Nobel Peace Prize to South Korean President (Nov/December 2000)
  • Millennium Summit issues progressive agenda (Sept/October 2000)
  • U.S. needs academies that teach youth to wage peace (Nov/December 1999)
  • Students Promise Peace and Live Up to It (Nov/December 1996)
    
    
• Plutonium
  • End of Hanford plutonium shipments in sight (Jan/February 2009)
  • DOE to ship plutonium off Hanford (Sept/October 2007)
  • NNSA seeks to expand Pu pit production for new warhead (Nov/December 2005)
  • Plutonium? It's the pits! (July/August 1997)
  • New greenbacks to promote ZPG (Sept/October 1998)
    
    
• Russia
  • Bush’s Cold War redux (Sept/October 2008)
    
    
• Terrorism
  • Revenge is not the way to peace (May/June 2011)
  • Your taxes fund anti-Muslim hatred (May/June 2011)
  • Terrorism is ‘blowback’ from U.S. foreign policy (May/June 2008)
  • Terrorism seeps out of Iraq (July/August 2007)
  • Army study slams war on terror (Jan/February 2004)
  • ‘Year in hell’ brings lawsuit against U.S. (Jan/February 2004)
  • Red Cross blasts U.S. over prisoners (Nov/December 2003)
  • Shredding the Constitution (Nov/December 2001)
    
    
• Torture
  • Ricardo Sanchez calls for torture commission (Jan/February 2011)
  • Italian court convicts 23 Americans in CIA rendition case (Nov/December 2009)
  • Tales from torture’s dark world (March/April 2009)
  • Alleged 20th hijacker on 9-11 was tortured; charges dropped (March/April 2009)
  • Spanish court reviews torture by Bush-era officials (March/April 2009)
  • Torture victim vindicated (May/June 2007)
  • New law absolves Bush of war crimes (Sept/October 2006)
  • Torture’s long shadow (Sept/October 2006)
  • Revisiting Abu Ghraib (March/April 2006)
  • Morality of torture (Jan. 13, 2006)
  • U.S. losing friends over torture (Nov/December 2005)
  • ‘Quaint’ Gonzales must go (Nov/December 2004)
    
    
• Tritium
  • Tritium rods sent to Savannah River Site (Nov/December 2005)
  • U.S. resumes tritium production (Nov/December 2003)
  • Tritium target contract (March/April 2000)
  • Tritium mission goes to TVA ... (Jan/February 1999)
  • WCPeace opposes FFTF use for tritium (Jan/February 1998)
  • Tritium test rods made at Hanford (Sept/October 1997)
  • U.S. tritium plans violate NPT obligations (March/April 1997)
    
    
• United Nations
  • Revolutionary priest to head next U.N. General Assembly (July/August 2008)
    
    
• United States
  • 'The Last Best Hope' (May/June 2006)
  • Impeachment whispers get louder (March/April 2006)
  • Dream on, America (Jan/February 2005)
    
    
• Uranium
  • Is the Pentagon giving our soldiers cancer?(March/April 2004)
    
    
• Veterans - PTSD
  • Ex-Marine, veterans’ advocate kills himself (May/June2011)
  • Fighting for peace of mind (Jan/February 2011)
  • More troops killed by suicide than war (March/April 2010)
  • Rise in troop suicides alarming (May/June 2009)
  • Dear Abby on PTSD (Nov/December 2006)
  • A soldier's pain deep inside (Sept/October 2005)
    
    
• Violence
  • 27.5 million uprooted by violence (March/April 2011)
  • Children targeted for violent entertainment (Nov/December 2000)
  • Trained to Kill (July/August 1999)
  • The rod and the big stick [spanking] (May/June 1999)
  • Toys make war on Christmas peace (Nov/December 1996)
  • Poor children targets of sex exploitation (Nov/December 1996)
    
    
• War
  • The pictures of war you aren’t supposed to see (March/April 2010)
  • Bosnian Serb gets 30 years for genocide (Nov/December 2009)
  • War is sin (Sept/October 2009)
  • Memory, War, and the Memory of War (May/June 2009)
  • Hero of My Lai dies at 62 (Jan/February 2006)
  • War kills ten years later (Nov/December 2005)
  • Army unit waged reign of horror in Vietnam (May/June & July/August 2004)
  • History of abuse (July/August 2004)
  • Lest we forget [Vietnam] (March/April 2000)
  • The rod and the big stick [Kosovo] (May/June 1999)
  • "Contact 2" (Jan/February 1998)
  • Kids cannon fodder for grownups' wars (Nov/December 1996)
    
    
• Weapons
  • U.S. expansion of drone use in targeted killings
    raises serious moral and legal questions (Sept/October 2011)
  • Weapons of Mideast oppression 'Made in U.S.A.' (March/April 2011)
  • The real ‘Merchants of Death' (Jan/February 2011)
  • Armed violence kills 2,000 a day worldwide (May/June 2010)
  • 450 Mayors petition Obama to adopt broad gun reform (March/April 2010)
  • U.N. investigator warns U.S. on use of drones (Nov/December 2009)
  • U.S. is odd man out of cluster bomb ban (Sept/October 2008)
  • IED - 'Made in the USA' (March/April 2008)
  • Many leave firearms loaded (Sept/October 2005)
    
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