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News U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) was an early critic of President Obama's decision to aid the international offensive against Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi.Now the progressive congressman from Springfield has offered up an amendment to the War Powers Resolution aimed at restricting the president's ability to unilaterally command military action.House Joint Resolution 55, which DeFazio introduced ...   More

News Portland peace activists will march across the Hawthorne Bridge this Friday afternoon to mark the first U.S. attack 20 years ago on Iraqi forces. Organizers of what's being called "The 'Gulf War' 20 Years Later" action want demonstrators to meet Jan. 14 at 4:30 pm near Terry Schrunk Plaza downtown. The march is connecting the 43-day U.S. bombing and ground campaign that started Jan. 16, 1991 to ...   More

News The Telling Project, a organized by fiction writer Jonathan Wei, asked veterans and their families to tell their stories in over 80 hours of interviews. Those stories provided the basis of Telling, a stage play performed by eight of those same veterans. Originally conducted and performed in Eugene, the Project produced a Portland version in May, which I did not see. I did hear very positive things ...   More

News While President Obama is busy escalating U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, some Portlanders are taking it into their own hands to protest the troop surge. Next week they'll get a lift from a documentary film swinging through town that urges Americans to rethink the war. Rethink Afghanistan is showing at the Clinton Street Theater on Thursday, Jan. 14 at 7 pm. The film by the nonprofit Brave ...   More

News The seventh anniversary of the Iraq War becomes a sad fact this Saturday. Here's how some people who are pissed off about that fact plan to mark that date this March 20 in Portland: What: Rally and March to End the Wars When: Saturday, March 20th 11:00 am at PSU, Noon at Terry Schrunk Plaza Where: Portland State University South Park Blocks Who: PSU March 4th Coalition Why: March 20th ...   More

News A retired Air Force general who served as a military adviser to Barack Obama's 2008 campaign says the president made the wrong choice doubling down on Afghanistan. Merrill McPeak, who's now living in Lake Oswego, helped plan the first Gulf War as a member of President George H.W. Bush's Joint Chiefs of Staff. He tells WW he would have advised Obama against his decision last year to send 30,000 ...   More