Eric Garcetti may not have had President Barack Obama's endorsement, but Obama's efficient operation helped Garcetti become mayor. Garcetti had significant support from Obama's GOTV team and the president's fundraising base. David Axelrod did three events for Garcetti in Los Angeles 10 days ago, speaking in glowing terms about the...

I am supporting Eric Garcetti for mayor because he best represents the potential for new leadership in Los Angeles. The changes that we need, however, run far deeper than what a new mayor can overcome. Unless participatory democracy becomes a greater cause in LA, Eric Garcetti -- or any mayor...

After 43 years of Earth Days, it is past time to contemplate the possible coming of Earth Night.

There is little promise, so far, of a coming "reverse polarization" or evolutionary leap that might prevent the piracy of our life support -- clean air, water, soil and healthy eco-systems --...

WICHITA -- The clinic where Dr. George Tiller performed abortions until being shot and killed during worship at his church on May 31, 2009, will be open for...

Despite withdrawals of our combat troops, the United States has ensnared itself in a self-perpetuating Long War now spreading to Mali. North Africa currently is the "central focus" in the War on Terror, according to Bloomberg. (July 31) Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is "strengthening its...

The Republican inquisition into Barack Obama's family roots is in total contrast to the avoidance of Mitt Romney's Mexican Mormon past. As recently as 2009, 72-year-old Meredith Romney, a relative of the Republican nominee, was kidnapped by Mexican gunmen in a strange vendetta involving drug cartels, land disputes...

President Obama and the Democrats need a new peace initiative to increase turnout and voting by pro-peace voters who will make a critical difference in this November's election.

The president has already recognized the importance of this constituency. In every speech he points to winding down the Iraq War and...

Longtime gang peace process advocates in Los Angeles announced new support on Memorial Day for the 11-week truce called by incarcerated Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street gang leaders which has sharply reduced homicides in El Salvador.

An estimated 700 lives have been saved since March as...

As a candidate opposing the Iraq War, Barack Obama improved his hawkish credentials by promising to track down Osama bin Laden, expand drone attacks, and escalate the American troop numbers in Afghanistan. Three years later, bin Laden is dead, the drones inflame Pakistan opinion and complicate a peace settlement, and...

Most of the widespread commemorative discussion of South Central's 1992 has missed three very important lessons:

First, the Crips-Bloods truce occurred before the April 29 Simi Valley not-guilty verdicts in the Rodney King beating case. Helped along by Jim Brown, as many as 200 young men boarded buses and traveled...

Peace movements in every country are raising their voices against the war in Afghanistan in advance of the May 18-20 NATO summit in Chicago. Some will converge on Chicago, while others will march in NATO capitols. Around two-thirds of the public in NATO countries now opposes the war,...

When I spoke to hundreds of students in central Florida last week, only one mentioned the recent murder of Trayvon Martin, a story now blazing across the global media. "You have no idea how bad it is down here," the student told me in a one-on-one conversation. "They have a...

Congress should update and amend the existing War Powers Act (WPA), passed in 1973 over Richard Nixon's veto, to cover future American military operations relying on drones instead of ground forces. Republican and Democratic House leaders seriously questioned President Obama's executive order for the war in Libya, but have not...

Dear Doyle,

It's disturbing to read that you've returned from a Pentagon-sponsored tour of Afghanistan embracing the military's viewpoint. (Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2011) It seems obvious that the Pentagon and the US ambassador, not to mention Hamid Karzai, feel free to deny and defy President Obama's...

American hawks are blaming President Obama for a premature withdrawal from Iraq, as if a few thousand American troops could prevent the country's current sectarian convulsion. The peace movement needs to unite against the framing of this blame game in which Obama "is likely to draw new criticism...

The British High Court has granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the right to appeal to the UK's Supreme Court in his extradition case, seeking a ruling on whether Stockholm's public prosecutor is an independent judicial authority as required by international law. The decision on whether to grant a...

By declaring that he will dispatch 2,500 Marines to Australia, President Obama has crossed a line, beginning a new Cold War with China, one based on military encirclement on sea and land, costing unknown trillions in defense dollars, and shoring up cheap labor markets in a free trade...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will likely go to Sweden in early December rather than continuing his appeals in British courts against extradition. Assange has hired a public relations firm in Stockholm to represent him as the case moves to the Stockholm arena. The decision, as yet unannounced, was confirmed by...

The New York Times has published no less than 150 articles on the Occupy Wall Street movement since October 1, all of them apparently intended to be somewhere between objective and positive, at least according to the standards of the newspaper of record.

The occupiers themselves may...

The Occupy Wall Street movement is barely born and the mainstream media is already in the delivery room, asking questions about demands and plans, pontificating on whether it's "good for Obama," or an "alternative to the Tea Party," etcetera ad infinitum.

The newborn movement needs breathing space. Breathing space and...