What kind of rules-based order sees the country that claims to be the most powerful force for good in the world outside the international consensus on issues of humanitarian concern?
If the Biden Administration and Congress fail to work for a ceasefire and a lasting agreement along realistic lines, an effective peace movement will be needed to steer U.S. policy toward peace and away from a longer, wider, and more catastrophic war.
While Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick wants Putin to suffer “a complete and total humiliating defeat in Ukraine,” this war, ending it, and running foreign policy in general is a little more complex.
Peace voices were ignored, if not disparaged, in the run up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. We can’t afford to make the same mistake with the conflict in Ukraine.
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.
