From Democracy Now | Original Article Fifty years ago, on March 16, 1968, U.S. soldiers attacked the Vietnamese village of My Lai. Even though the soldiers met no resistance, they slaughtered more than 500 Vietnamese women, children and old men over the next four hours, in what became known as the My Lai massacre. After […]
From Democracy Now | Original Article As a group of Vietnam War veterans and peace activists travel back to Vietnam to mark the 50th anniversary of the My Lai massacre, Amy Goodman and Juan González speak with three members of the delegation: Vietnam veteran Paul Cox, who later co-founded the Veterans for Peace chapter in […]
World Can’t Wait began sending veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq into classrooms in 2007, as GW Bush, and then Obama, claimed the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan were being won. Not “won” and not over, as we know now. The Trump/Pence Regime has roared in with MAGA, pushing its plan to “win” in Afghanistan: sending […]
By Joe Urgo As we are right now at the 50th anniversaries of Tet and the beginning of the whole year of 1968, I write this at a time of tremendous danger and great potential. For those who have lost faith in the power of the people to change the world, I say this. In […]
Miles Megaciph, one of the speakers going to visit high schools and colleges through our We Are Not Your Soldiers project, returned to Okinawa where he had been stationed when in the military, with a Veterans for Peace delegation supporting the struggles of the people of Okinawa to remove US military bases from their land. […]
By Lyle Jeremy Rubin From Peace in Our Times | Original Article In an age of endless war and social turmoil, the veteran has become a fetish. Americans are desperate to believe the United States is still righteous and powerful, even though most of us know otherwise. Much like the flag we drape ourselves in, […]
By Yaniv Kubovich From Haaretz | Original Article ‘The army is carrying out the government’s racist policy that violates basic human rights,’ 63 teens write to Netanyahu and Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot A group of 63 teens have publicly declared they will refuse to be drafted into the Israel army, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on […]
Lyle Rubin, veteran, U.S. Marines This fall, WeAreNotYourSoldiers brought veterans to speak to students at as many schools as we visited during the height of the Iraq war. In October and November 2017, the We Are Not Your Soldiers project visited schools in New York City. Over two weeks, we spoke to students in […]
By Marjorie Cohn From Truthout | Original Article On November 19, Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of the US Strategic Command, declared he would refuse to follow an illegal presidential order to launch a nuclear attack. “If you execute an unlawful order, you will go to jail,” the general explained at the Halifax International […]
https://youtu.be/Vm3JA9GOYf0 Over the course of the last century, the US has silently encircled the world with a web of military bases unlike any other in history. No continent is spared. They have shaped the lives of millions, yet remain a mystery to most. Featuring Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky. Standing Army explores historical displacement of […]
This TV spot is the latest in a series of commercials created by Knowdrones.com in collaboration with Cres Vellucci, of Veterans for Peace, Chapter 87. The commercials are being broadcast in prime and near prime time on MSNBC, CNN, FOX and other cable channels in communities hosting U.S. drone bases in an effort to appeal […]
