The U.S. has an inflated military budget that grows regularly without adequate debate. This budget supports more than 180 bases in about 150 countries.

the extrajudicial killings are murdering civilians who are purely bystanders. .. this is contrary to our laws, let alone ethics ... no trials, no due process, no innocence until proof of guilt .. we are decimating families while we are creating more enemies with the drone attacks .. this is wrong, as well as being counterproductive

Violence is never the answer to conflict: What were YOU thinking the last time someone came into your "space" and physically forced you to do something? Did it work?

Every time the US kills "suspected militants", the US is pouring fuel on the fire for "Blowback". When the polls show that a majority of US Citizens oppose these obscene strikes on potentially innocent peoples, something is wrong.

The President is conducting a War on Terrorism that uses inaccurate, unethical and inhumane drone strikes, that are killing too many civilians along with their intended terrorist targets. There are better, more effective and moral ways to deal with terrorists, that by the way don't create future terrorists from the friends and family of the civilians killed in drone attacks. Please ask the President to stop his current use of drones in the War on Terrorism.

The peoples of Abkhazia are facing a continual humanitarian crisis of poverty, compromised resources, and a lack of international attention, from fair, unbiased and accurate reporting. Since the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, the ethnic peoples of Abkhazia have struggled and waged war for their peoples and cultural independence in the Caucasus region. Situated on the south-western coast of the Black Sea, Abkhazia is facing a continual humanitarian crisis due to the aftermath and ongoing effects of Georgian-Abkhaz war and violence, as well as being relatively ignored by Western governments such as the United States of America and the European Union. To Georgians, the Republic of Abkhazia is considered only a de facto government, and a breakaway region within its sovereign borders. Like the South Ossetians, these regions are considered by Georgian and its Western allies rogue statues, and have been declared a“Russian-occupied territory” following a resolution passed in August, 2008. Yet the complex and intricate geopolitical tension between Abkhazia and Georgia—on behalf of the Russian Federation’s pro-Abkhaz support militarily and financially, on the one hand, and America and European’s pro-Georgian call for national integrity on the other—threatens to overshadow the exact crises and humanitarian needs facing the Abkhaz people: 1. The Abkhaz people are not recognized by the European Union or United Nations, and as such, receive no official voice or diplomatic relations among the international community. (Though five United Nation members have recognized the Republic of Abkhazia as an autonomous, sovereign government, only Russia provides substantial financial and humanitarian aid). Therefore, the people of Abkhazia have no international voice. 2. Abkhazia as a region still faces the consequences of a brutal and severely costly war. Land-mines are still found within its villages and borders. Widespread poverty and continual violence effect the lives of countless women, children and non-militant combatants in the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict. National infrastructure such as police, education, hospitals, and other municipal agencies operate on meager budgets without any means of receiving international support as an unrecognized country, the peoples of Abkhazia (which include a large population of Greeks, Turks, Armenians and others) must combat disease, poverty, and a compromised quality of life in silence. Therefore, impoverished living conditions of Abkhazians exist mostly undocumented and rarely acknowledge by the international press. 3. As a result of the West’s pro-Georgian stance, citizens and refugees within Abkhazia are unable to travel freely throughout the world, as visas and international embassies do not recognize them as anything else than aliens, or internationally displaced persons. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, a widespread diaspora from the 1992-1993 War in Abkhazia has left Abkhaz peoples displaced in Turkey, Russian and elsewhere in the Caucasus, without the safety or assurance of their return to their “disputed” homelands. Families are divided, the burdens of travel and communication are not often feasible, and the cultural traditions of the Abkhaz people are in danger of being effaced. 4. Abkhazia’s lack of international recognition can be considered the result of Cold War realities—and while Russia and the West have stopped waging war on each other, the geopolitical pressures concerning Abkhazia’s international recognition are immense. Ethic cleansing and genocide has been documented by both Georgian and Abkhaz militant forces during the 1992-1993 war. Additionally, a large population of ethnic Georgians have been displaced from their homes and property following the fighting in the region. The resettlement of these Georgians, as well as the loses suffered by non-militant combatants, has motivated the Georgian government’s language and ensuing policy towards reunification as well as an absolute refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the de facto Abkhazian government, aka The Republic of Abkhazia, or Aspny. Several United Nations resolutions following militarized violence in the 1992 and 2008 wars have repeatedly demanded for the return of ethnic Georgians and the compensation of their lost property, which many international governments consider the Abkhaz people to possess illegally. Yet Western and international media sources have told with great bias only a Georgian narrative of these events, and have turned a blind eye toward any rights of the ethnic Abkhaz to self-govern independently and rightfully. While the Georgian government and people have a right to promote and uphold their cause and claims following this violence, the peoples of Abkhazia have been denied a fair and internationally-recognized dialogue. Neo-ColdWar policy (Pro-Western vs. Pro-Russian) is still dictating the legacy and legitimacy of the Abkhaz people.

The Mandaean community in Iraq faces extinction. Out of more than 60,000 Mandaeans in Iraq in the early 1990s, only 5,000 to 7,000 remain, most having fled since 2003 in the face of murder, kidnapping, rape, eviction, and forced conversion. We're calling on the United States government to help preserve the Iraqi Mandaean culture, heritage, and existence by funding a Mandaean language school and programs to assist Iraqi Mandaean refugees in returning to Iraq. The United States has a responsibility to this community that is almost extinct because of the United States' war and occupation.

If Cuba were to acquire nuclear weapons of mass destruction right on our doorstep, then it would bring home the urgency of having to deal with this life threatening issue of national security over all other issues of the day. Then we would perhaps feel the urgency that our ally Israel feels every day to resolve the nuclear threat that is being imposed on it by Iran.

Over 10,000 innocent people have been brutally killed by the Syrian regime in the past year. Every agreement made by this regime has been nothing more than another lie to buy them more time to kill more innocent people. Since the UN peace plan has been in effect, the killing of innocent civilians, including many childeren, has only increased. Now this brutal regime has murdered 90 innocent people in their own homes in one day, including 32 childeren! Please help pressure the Obama administration to take decisive action to take away this regime's ability to continue slaughtering innocent men, women and childeren.

We want a free and democratic Palestine with the power and freedom of self determination without the control of Israel and the United States. Tear down the apartheid wall and allow the people of Palestine to have back their land before the 1967 war with the right of return for the the people of Palestine who lost or left their land to escape the war.

We want a free and democratic Palestine with the power and freedom of self determination without the control of Israel and the United States. Tear down the apartheid wall and them back their land before the 1967 war.

It's about stopping our urge to use war as a way to show patriotism and U.S. "exceptionalism". War enriches the country's elite while desecrating the earth and spilling innocent blood. It doesn't solve problems, it creates more for the future. War is outdated, it's time to try diplomacy instead.