We all know that John Bolton is a terrible dangerous choice for national security adviser. But the Senate doesn't get to confirm that role. It does, however, confirm secretary of state for which Trump has nominated someone even more dangerous: Mike Pompeo. Pompeo is a climate change denier. He's anti gay rights. He wants to rip up our diplomatic deals. He's defended the use of torture. If fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was the fire extinguisher that kept the Trump flame from engulfing us all, then Pompeo is the fuel that would make the Trump bonfire go out of control. He cannot represent us to the world. We can't stop Trump from appointing John Bolton—a man who pushed for the devastating Iraq War and who recently wrote the case for war with North Korea—as national security adviser. So our only chance to prevent Trump from assembling a war cabinet that would push us to war with Iran and North Korea and risk of ruining relationships around the world is to block Pompeo. Senator Rand Paul has said he won't support Pompeo—now if every Democratic and Independent senator does the same, we can say no to this bigot and no to Trump's reckless march to war.

Donald Trump is marching us toward war—or multiple wars—if his latest nominees and appointees are and indication. Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick to run the State Department, opposes diplomatic agreements, supports torture, and has publicly spoken about the war "between the Christian West and the Muslim East" and received the top award from a known anti-muslim hate group. We cannot trust him to run the U.S. State Department. Gina Haspel has defended the CIA use of torture. We cannot trust her to run the CIA. John Bolton has a history of bad decisions that have contributed to massive loss of life. He was a booster for the Iraq War. More recently, he penned an op-ed on the case for war with North Korea. He just can't be trusted at all. Trump pushed out his secretary of state and national security adviser who had helped restrain Trump's desire for war. His new appointees would be far worse—putting us all at risk. As a first step to blocking a reckless war cabinet, and preventing unnecessary and costly wars: The Senate and must reject Pompeo's nomination as Secretary of State.

Senators need to vote NO on Mike Pompeo's nomination to send a clear message: We support diplomacy, not senseless and endless wars. The landmark Iran Nuclear Deal has been in place since 2015. Under the agreement, Iran can not get nuclear weapons, and in return the US and European allies agreed to lift economic sanctions. The International Atomic Energy Agency has reported 9 times that Iran remains in compliance with the deal, and our top generals continue to report to Congress that the deal is working. Yet Trump fired the current Secretary of State Rex Tillerson over Tillerson's support of the nuclear deal. This is in defiance with our best interests and our security. Senators must block this escalation to war from Trump by voting NO on Mike Pompeo's nomination.

Donald Trump just named Iraq War architect John Bolton as his National Security Advisor and Islamophobic war hawk Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State. There's no question: Trump is building a war cabinet. But Mike Pompeo needs to clear a Senate confirmation vote before he can take the reins of the State Department. Bolton’s shockwave appointment as National Security Advisor gives us an opening to convince senators that Pompeo is a five-alarm nominee — but we’ve got to move fast. Add your name and urge the Senate to vote no on Pompeo.

Mr. Lauder writes as a pro-Israel advocate and he couches his arguments in terms of preserving Israel as Jewish and democratic. Nonetheless, Mr. Lauder’s ideas are more universally applicable to the quest for Israel-Palestinian peace. Mr. Lauder identifies two aspects of Israeli government policy that undermine any chance for peace in the region: • Mr. Lauder says that a two-state solution (2SS)—a Palestinian state alongside Israel—is essential for peace. He says that the 2SS is threatened by Israel’s settlement project that expropriates Palestinian land, and calls for a major effort to promote the 2SS.. • Mr. Lauder also says that Israel’s capitulation to religious extremists “is turning a modern, liberal nation into a semi-theocratic one.” He calls for tolerance among the many strands of Judaism and by implication other religions that share the land. Mr. Lauder’s drive to preserve Israel and Jewish and democratic is also a drive to bring peace to Israel-Palestine and all the people who live in the region. We supports Mr. Lauder and the World Jewish Congress in their quest for peace. Mr. Lauder’s op-ed is important because it is a firm statement by a major player in the Israel lobby that settlements are the key barrier to peace. We congratulate Mr. Lauder. We invite all people who desire peace in the region to sign this letter to congratulate Ronald Lauder.

Donald Trump fired Rex Tillerson two weeks ago and announced that he that intends to replace him with current CIA chief Mike Pompeo, who has endorsed torture, pushed anti-Muslim policies, embraces war, shuns diplomacy, and has received more money from the Koch brothers than any other member of Congress. Pompeo is dangerous, and he must be stopped. The good news is that we can win this. If Senate Democrats and Independents unify in opposition, we can block the nomination of Mike Pompeo, whose pro-war views are so extreme that even many Republicans may vote no.  Pompeo is a vehemently anti-Muslim bigot who has shamelessly embraced the use of torture and is an opponent of diplomacy. Trump himself has said that while Tillerson was more inclined to support the diplomatic deal with Iran, Pompeo agrees with Trump about tearing it up—risking putting us on a path to war with Iran. And now that Trump has announced John Bolton as his new national security adviser, the risks just got even higher. As Trump approaches the high-stakes meeting with North Korea, Americans need a secretary of state who believes in diplomacy. Mike Pompeo is not that person—he's a radical ideologue who will put us in greater danger.  All it takes to reject Pompeo is a simple majority in the Senate, but things are moving fast. Senators need to see—right now—that constituents are tuned in and ready to hold them accountable. Last year, as Trump appointed a Cabinet of authoritarians and kleptocrats, senators heard powerful outrage from voters and began to oppose Cabinet picks—even Tillerson, a moderate compared to Pompeo, received only 54 votes. We should not treat Pompeo as business as usual. All senators must hear from their constituents and understand that this is their chance to reject Trump's march to war.

"At stake is access to basic education for 525,000 boys and girls at over 700 UNRWA schools; emergency food and cash assistance to 1.7 million extremely vulnerable Palestine refugees; access to primary health care for 3 million refugees, including pre-natal care; dignity and human security for 5.3 million refugees who endured 70 years of injustice and uncertainty."-UNRWA..lets call on the Global Education Fund to support the refugees and IDP's and fund their education.

On March 5th, 2018, Senator Schumer stood before 18,000 AIPAC activists and told them what they wanted to hear: Israeli settlements in the West Bank are not an obstacle to peace. This ridiculous statement brought the AIPAC crowd to its feet, but it further damaged the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace. As a seasoned politician, Senator Schumer must know the truth: settlements are a chief obstacle to peace. Yet he chose to misrepresent the facts in pandering to AIPAC. Unless settlements stop expanding and unless many are removed, Palestinians cannot have a viable state. That is, in fact, the objective of those who support and advance settlement construction. Without the creation of a Palestinian state, Israel risks becoming either a binational state and losing its Jewish character, or becoming an international pariah in which a Jewish minority rules over a disenfranchised Palestinian majority. As Schumer must know, either scenario jeopardizes Israel's future. It's time for him to tell the truth.

The FISC is in violation of multiple provisions of the US Constitution as identified, has a long history of creating secret law, for acting as a non-inferior Federal Court, for a history of US agencies’ non-compliant practices and for allowing actions taken with Section 702 collected data in violation of the Fourth Amendment and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

For three years, the United States has been enabling Saudi Arabia’s brutal campaign driving more than 8 million Yemenis to the brink of famine. Our government gives Saudi Arabia bombs and planes. Our troops even deliver fuel to Saudi jets in midair while they conduct bombings. Now, Vermont progressive Senator Bernie Sanders and constitutional conservative Senator Mike Lee of Utah have introduced a bipartisan resolution to cut off U.S. support for this illegal war. Bernie’s resolution is our best chance to end America’s role in triggering this unconscionable, man-made crisis. And because this resolution declares that the war in Yemen violates the Constitution, it’s guaranteed a vote on the Senate floor within days. Urge your senators to vote YES on the Sanders-Lee resolution and cut off U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s brutal war in Yemen.

Like many other citizens of the United States I am alarmed that our President and the Speaker of the House along with the majority Senate leader have been derelict in protecting the United States from the insidious attacks by the Russian Federation with the aim being very simple :the destruction of our our democracy and our way of life. This attack is every bit as serious as the attack on Pearl Harbor or 9/11. The fabric of our country and democratic institutions are being neglected and stressed to the breaking point from this act of War on the United States. If our leaders will not act then we must as citizens step up to protect our country.

We represent Indivisible Lowville, a local grassroots group dedicated to progressive values. However, the undersigned include a variety of your constituents and not all of them belong to Indivisible. We, collectively, want common sense gun control that does not infringe on sport or hunting but takes away access to all military style weaponry. Many of us have school-aged children and it is clear that our schools are no longer a safe place for them to be. Please take action, Ms. Stefanik.