October 11, 2011: Lt. General Robert Gard, along with Joe Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund and Ron Pollack, Executive Director, Families USA spoke at a Press Conference held by Representative Ed. Markey to call on the supercommittee to make cuts to the nuclear weapons budget.

Council for a Livable World Executive Director John Isaacs was quoted in an article on the debt limit deal discussing defense budget cuts for the Associated Press on July 29, 2011.

Council for a Livable World board member Daniel Wirls, a professor of politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz, published “Missing in Action: debate on military spending,” in the San Francisco Chronicle on July 25, 2011.

Council for a Livable World Executive Director John Isaacs and Brigadier General John H. Johns (U.S. Army, ret.) published an op-ed in the Richmond Times Dispatch regarding President Obama’s recent speech on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Council for a Livable World Executive Director John Isaacs sent a Letter to the Editor into the Washington Post on bringing troops home from Afghanistan.