Israel's settlements in the West Bank of Palestine are a threat to world peace.

In response to the "Herod's Law" signed by Russian president Putin on 12/28/2012 effectively banning adoptions of Russian diabled orphans by U.S. citizens U.S. team should boycott Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi, Russia

We talk about debt but never address what's really bankrupting America. We couldn't cut enough welfare programs to get out of debt so it's time to start talking about ending the unconstitutional murder being committed overseas as we spend more on that than everything else combined.

Recently a woman was raped for almost an hour by six drunken men on a Delhi bus. When they were done with her, one of them stuck an iron rod into her vagina and yanked it out with so much force that her intestines came out. She is on life support. We want to say we solidly stand behind the protestors of the gang rape in India. The protests there are swelling by the day all over the country, and we should act here. Our protest will be peaceful, but powerful and we are going to make sure the Indian government hears our voices.

Please stop the World War in Syria. Feed the millions of starving Syrian children. Save the Country of Syria from the paid outside Opposition and Terrorists. Support the Syrian President Assaud, who the Syrian people love, because he treats them so well, that they love him, and their own land, and their own Goverment and the Syrian Army who has no help right now. Please help them keep their Country. Right now they don`t care who wins. All they want is peace. Muslims and Christians live in Syria happily together in peace. And they want to keep their leader and their land they love, and peace. Pleace help them. This is the greatest need right now. Thank you. Ella Marie Jackson < [email protected]>

Help our Burkinabé friend Lamine and others caught in the desert between the Mauritanian and Moroccan borders! Aidez notre ami burkinabé Lamine et les autres qui ont été refoulés entre la frontière marocaine et celle de la Mauritanie !

World War II (when there was one nuclear armed nation) and the Cold War (when there were two nations armed with nuclear weapons and pledged to mutual assured destruction, "MAD") are now history. Here is the current status of nuclear weapons: 4,400 active nuclear warheads owned by 8 nations. Five of these (France, China, United Kingdom, Russia and United States) are signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in which they pledged to work toward the elimination of these weapons. Three nuclear-armed nations are not covered by the NPT (Israel, India and Pakistan). Other nations are suspected to be acquiring nuclear weapons (North Korea, Iran). Also, there are terrorists who might like to have a nuclear weapon in their arsenel. It is time to forever ban (not just limit the number) the possession of nuclear weapons. Use of tactical (tiny) nuclear weapons or strategic (big) nuclear weapons in a regional conflict have unimaginable consequences...and yet military strategists in each of the nuclear nations have scenarios for just such use. President Obama has stated his desire to eliminate nuclear weapons and he has just been given another 4 years to govern. Let's support him in convening a treaty-writing conference to eliminate all nuclear weapons with ENFORCEABLE inspection and verification by a strengthened United Nations body.

On October 30, 2006, an unmanned drone struck a school in Pakistan. The strike didn't hit its target: the number-two man for Al Queda. Instead, it killed 83 civilians. Only 3 of them were over the age of 20.

No more innocent children must die, as you promised Mr. President in your address to Sandy Hook. Protect all life.

This generation currently produces enough food to end world hunger. We are willing show preference to the companies that agree to assist in solving world hunger and are willing to pay 3% more per item to the companies that participate.

Nero was the Roman emperor who is said to have fiddled while Rome burned. It’s not clear whether the fire was a case of arson or simply an accident, which wasn’t unusual for that day, but the entire word is burning today (or at least getting quite a bit warmer) and it isn’t any accident. We might think of Nero having “fiddled while Rome burned” when we contemplate what we are doing today by adding greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere. Collectively, we carry on business as usual while consuming an ever-increasing amount of fossil-fuels and other finite resources, shrugging our shoulders at the damage that now rather obviously derives from our irresponsible ways.

Like many American Jews and long-time Israel supporters, I am very concerned about the possibility of Chuck Hagel becoming Secretary of Defense. While in the Senate, he consistenly voted against Israel's interests. For example, in 2000, he was one of only four Senators who refused to sign a Senate letter in support of Israel. I believe that President Obama can do much better, both for the United States and for one of our closest allies, with someone else.