Veterans for Peace Radio Hour

This is such a powerful show. More music than normal along with the inspiration we can draw on from those truly brave soldiers in the trenches of WW!.

Stewart Battle of the Executive Intelligence Review news organization (eir.news) to discuss the impact and chaos brought on by the administrations National Security Strategy and the Trump Corollary to the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. Stewart discusses, and breaks down the international angst, especially in Europe, that the strategy has caused. Is Trump really divorcing Nato? Is he t...

Yes Harrison Mann, one of the first military and government members to resign over the US support of Israel's genocide in Gaza.   He takes us back to explain why he was one of the first; why it did not take long to know that our policy, the Biden policy was wrong.  However, now as Associate Director for Campaigns and Policy at Win Without War he is ramping up his activism.  He talks about Ukra...

Our own JACK GILROY is producing another play and he wants it to come to YOUR TOWN. It is a two person play about a drone pilot and HER daughter in college and the struggles they have reconciling what Mom is doing with what the daughter sees as reality. Jack talks about the play and the relevance today as we face continuing confrontations in the Middle East, Africa, Ukraine, and the escalating ten...

Matt Hoh, Senior Fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network, VFP Advisory Board Member, author, and activist rejoins the show to talk about so much. From Gaza to Ukraine, from Nato to Venezuela, from China to the US, from ICE, to militarism, to troops on the street of the US, Matt weighs in on the status and challenges of today's world especially in these days of Trump.

No Kings is just the tip of what Veterans for Peace is doing. Today we hear powerful voices, including VFP Executive Director Michael McPhearson on the indepth meaning of Peace at Home and Peace Abroad. We hear Jon Spitzberg, 87 year old VFP activist, on getting arrested, AGAIN. We hear voices from No Kings rally, including Santa, Unicorns, and Dinosaurs. We hear a clip from young Veteran and Podc...

This is a powerful show with Marie Purcell, Veteran, Conscientious Objector, and now VFP Twin Cities Activist specializing in the new program starting within VFP to create rapid responses to national and international issues. Right now the work has concentrated on the genocide, the flotilla's and the recent ceasefire. She also reflects on the power and resilience of the Palestinian people and...

Dr. Nizar Hallek joins the show.  He is a Palestinian American, US CITIZEN, activist, and Doctor, who Harvey met while getting into good trouble disrupting Elbit Systems in Charleston, S.C..   Dr. Hallek covers  discusses his efforts as a Palestinian to bring knowledge and understanding the people of the US that if you do not believe this is a genocide, then you must be a Holocaust denier.  You ca...

Harvey and Jim are away and so this is a replay of a very timely show from one year ago. Joseph Gerson is Executive Director of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security joins us to explain that the Nobel Peace prize this year is a desperate plea to the world to stop its insane rush toward nuclear confrontation. The award was given to Nihon Hidankyo, the grassroots movement of atomic...

NO MAS, in other words No Military Air Shows. VFP members and activists Jim Rine and Gary Butterfield join us to discuss their upcoming tours to educate the public about the link between militarism and our climate catastrophe by focusing on military air shows. Jim and Gary are VFP members and activists within the Climate Crisis and Militarism Project. They have outlined airshows throughout the cou...

Today, we are joined by two dynamic activists who are walking the walk and can give us inspiration to take our own path to make a difference.  Hani Nofal resigned his commission in the Navy because of our complicity in genocide.  He now works for Rebuilding Alliance (rebuildingalliance.org) working to provide aid and support for the people of Palestine and more.   He has been interviewed on the na...

Harvey is back from assignment with a full report from the powerful People's Conference for Palestine.  Harvey describes his participation, and we include clips from Mahmoud Khalil and Chris Smalls.  The theme of the conference was that Palestine is our compass, our guide, our wayshower to humanity and peace.  We finish with a song about Palestine by Billy Bragg.

Veterans for Peace member and President of the Rachel Corrie Chapter was kidnapped by ICE during a citizenship interview.  He has lived in the US legally for 25 years and is an Army Veteran suffering from a service injury, which keeps him in a wheelchair.  He has been striving to gain his citizenship and was within an interview of getting it when ICE took him.  He, of course, is one of thousands,...

Bill Astore retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), author, professor of history, TomDispatch regular, and a senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network with a sub stack called Bracing Views, joins us to discuss his latest article, "An Ailing, Flailing, Failing Empire Lashes Out, America the FUBAR."  We discuss if the idea of the rule of law in the US is on the same footing as the tooth fai...

It is so frustrating, there are so many issues, which one should I focus on: war, immigration, genocide, climate, racial justice, worker's rights, or something else? Mike Ferner who is just recovered from the VFP FAST joins us to discuss a movement that just might relieve your frustration and address all the issues at once. All of the issues we face today have one thing in common and that is c...

Yes, on top of everything else.  This is really hard to deal with as we face endless war, threat of nuclear confrontation, fascism, Christian nationalism, racism, and more; we still have to pay attention to the climate.  Tom Grose, our resident climate guru in Nashville, talks about the end of EPA responsibility.  Then we go back to the VFP convention and the presentations by Shirine Jurdi speakin...

Today, we talk to two activists who are working hard to eliminate Elbit Weapons Systems, an Israeli company,  from their community in Charleston, SC.  Elbit has been producing cannons for the Israeli military to participate in the continued genocide in Gaza.  These two activists are part of a coalition of groups that are picketing the facility, addressing their local Council, and asking their comm...

Ellen Thomas, Mike Ferner, and Anthony Donovan join us to show just how important and impactful volunteers with VFP are to peace and justice in this world.  Ellen shares her decades-long experience fighting against nuclear weapons and what we can do today to help move HR 1888 through Congress.  Mike discusses the ending of the forty day VFP fast and the Good Trouble the fasters got into.  Mike als...

Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones invited MINNESOTA Congress-Lady Ilhan Omar to Tennessee's 5th district to hold a townhall, because the 5th district's actual representative Andy Ogles wouldn't. However, Veterans for Peace Radio was there and will share some of the discussion of issues that Andy is not willing to discuss. It was raucous! Then the Trump administration has sanc...

Harvey and Jim share clips from important people on the national and international scene that you will never hear on the mainstream media. We start with an update and audio from the protests that ended the VFP-40 day fast to demand an end to genocide. We hear from co-organizer Phil Tottenham and Joy Metzger. We then turn to voices who are educating us on the issues of the day and thus pleading wit...

After Tom Grose of Veterans for Peace updates on the ICE attacks in the Nashville area, John Steinbach of Veterans for Peace and Co-Founder of the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area joins us to discuss Iran's nuclear program and takes a deep dive into the history of Israel's nuclear program. Tom shares heartbreaking stories of intimidation and what might be a g...

First, we get quick updates on Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his imprisonment and hearing in Nashville and the protests in front of the Federal Courthouse from Craig Bardo of Veterans for Peace and Pan Walker of United Volunteers of Tennessee. Then we turn to KJ Noh and his discussion on the war the US has always wanted. Yes, if you think this is Bibi's war, think again. Also, he shows how this agg...

Poet, Scholar, Teacher, Author, Activist, Vietnam (Purple Heart) Veteran joins us to share several poems and stories from his own collection and from a Gazan Poet. He also shares the story of a young woman he wrote about in his article for Peace and Planet News called "A Part of You Will Die with Us." He also reflects on Memorial Day, especially in light

Mike Ferner, past Executive Director of Veterans for Peace, joins the show as co-organizer of a 40-day fast to call our attention to the continual and escalating (if that is possible) atrocities perpetrated by Israel with our complicity in Gaza. After hearing clips from Gabor Mate and Ray McGovern on why we need to do more, Mike describes how VFP, allied groups, and almost 700 people registered fo...

Noura Erakat calls out the United States for its complicity in Gaza, and then pleads with the international community at the UN General Assembly to realize that while the US is an empire, the US is not the world. Gideon Levy joins Glenn Diesen to share a gloomy assessment of the Middle East and asks what happens after the killing in Gaza stops, there is no plan. Kyle Kulinski, in a very short clip...