50 years ago, American boys, most under 20 years of age, committed unspeakable acts against a civilian hamlet in Vietnam. Over 500 women, children (yes! there were babies!) and old men were slaughtered by American soldiers. Civilian “collateral damage” is a tragic cost of any war; the My Lai massacre only exemplified it at a…
Former Army paratrooper and Veterans For Peace member Will Griffin responds to Trump’s strategy in Afghanistan on BBC News. Will also runs The Peace Report website, which was created to help educate the public about the problems surrounding militarism. Skip to 4:15 for Will’s appearance.
My name is Mike Hanes and I am with the San Diego chapter of Veterans for Peace. After my experiences in the Iraq invasion as a Force Recon Marine operator, I came to the conclusion that the glory, idealism and patriotism that was sold to us growing up, and later as service members, was to…
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San Diego Veterans For Peace member Jim Brown recently appeared on San Diego’s KUSI News for a story about the 13-year long Afghanistan War coming to an end. Click here to watch the news clip on KUSI’s website.
The text below is re-posted from our friends at Veterans For Peace UK. As classic anti-war dance anthem All Together Now is re-released, Nick Megoran says why commemorating the 1914 Christmas truces is so important. Britain seems to have gone truce-mad. This year’s Sainsbury’s Christmas TV advert is a hugely-expensive and carefully produced film about…