Veterans for Peace Radio Hour

Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, and many other organizations sponsored a forum in Washington, DC on Peace In Ukraine. The forum was facilitated by Eugene Puryear and Media Benjamin with speakers Lee Camp, Claudia DeLa Cruz, and Cr. Cornell West. The facilitators and speakers reflect the sentiment of the people of the world and the US in calling for negotiations. They then ask us to make waves and n...

Harvey lives within miles of where the F-35 crashed and the pilot ejected, so we will talk about the F-35 and Harvey's efforts to reach out to his elected officials to get them to pay attention. Then we discuss a recent GAO study of the F-35 and we hear the words from the past of John McCain and Pierre Sprey. From that, it is clear the F-35 is expensive, dumb, and now very dangerous.

Bruce Carruthers of Save our VA (SOVA) working group updates us on their efforts to halt efforts to privatize the VA and identifies two bills that must be stopped, S1316 and S2649. Then Ryan Black of DefuseNuclearWar.org and Marcy Winograd of Code Pink and Peace in Ukraine joined the VFP No Nukes Working group to promote two weeks of action to push for peace and disarmament. Letting us know that i...

In the wake of the nationwide actions on ending fossil fuels, Steve Morse of the Veterans for Peace Climate Crisis and Militarism Project joins the show to discuss why the biggest polluter is often ignored when we discuss our climate catastrophe. Steve also talks about the work of the Climate Crisis and Militarism Project and how you request their help to address the Climate. Jim interviews some p...

After a quick recognition of Labor Day and the UAW efforts to help the big three automakers support their workers, we return to our coverage of the VFP convention. We talk nukes in Europe, democracy in the US (or lack thereof), where VFP has been to help us be inspired on where we are going and then Kathy Kelly gives us inspiration and remembers Daniel Ellsberg. We finished with a song from Jacob...

Veterans for Peace held its 2023 Conference with a dynamic set of speakers and impactful schedule of webinars/workshops. Harvey and I only touch on the importance of this conference and how it demonstrates the effective and important work of Veterans for Peace. We honored the memory of Daniel Ellsberg which was reflected in the conference theme of Choose Peace, Stand Up, Speak Out. We included cli...

Professor Peter Kuznick joined the Veterans for Peace No Nukes group to discuss the movie Oppenheimer. Professor Kuznick provided the most in-depth analysis we have heard so far pointing out the many important and factual parts of the movie and the deficiencies, Professor Kuznick also provides a great history lesson about those times including a brief reference to Henry Wallace and how different t...

PLEASE SHARE WITH ANYONE CONSIDERING THE MILITARY. Today we welcome Special Guest Dr. Sam Coleman of the Veterans for Peace Military Trauma working group. Dr. Sam discusses moral injury, military class structure, American class structure, and much more. Could it be that we are all suffering from Moral Injury? We also quickly discuss Niger and the struggles in Africa and remember Patrice Lumumba fr...

We start the show hearing and discussing clips from Professors Alperovitz and Ruane about why the evidence shows clearly that the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not necessary. We then turn to the article written by William Hartung published in the Peace and Planet News about the movie Oppenheimer, Nuclear Industrial Complex, and public denial. During his article he refers to other mo...

There are TWO MOVIES out about the A-Bomb and about two amazing Physicists who created them. One is Oppenheimer about Robert Oppenheimer and the other is A Compassionate Spy about Ted Hall. In this episode, Harvey and Jim discuss and reflect on Oppenheimer and then they will introduce you to A Compassionate Spy by the name of Ted Hall. You have probably seen the first and never heard about the sec...

Yes, More voices talking about the reality and the dangers of the war in Ukraine. We continue with the holistic/historical approach from Dr. Glenn Diesen and Pascal Lottaz of Nuetrality Studies. We get the European holistic approach from MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace. Then we finish up with a US historical and holistic approach with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs. Yes, you will hear more about media manipul...

In this first of a two-part discussion and for the second week in a row we try to take a historical and holistic view of the Russia-Ukraine war and much more by sharing an interview by Pascal Lottaz of Neutrality Studies with Norwegian Professor Glenn Diesen. Professor Diesen discusses how this war was predicted as far back as the Clinton Administration. He also points out how US policies past and...

Harvey and Jim reflect on Glenn Greenwald's recent interview with John Mearsheimer in an attempt to spread the thought that it is important to look at the Russian/Ukrainian war from Russia's perspective to understand what provoked Putin and what we can expect in the future. Beyond that Mearsheimer also points out the effects of this war on the global power structure, the US/Nato's capa...

Yes, Jim Goes off the rails. Harvey and Jim continue to ask the question Independence Day for whom, especially in light of the recent rulings of this supreme court which have gutted independence for women, students, the LGBT community, African Americans, and more. We ask about who is celebrating Independence Day: Native Americans, peaceful protestors, the enslaved and the generations since enslave...

Do you know the long-term hazards of depleted uranium? Do you know what it is used for and why it is so popular with the US and other warring countries? Damacio Lopez joined the Veterans for Peace No Nukes Working Group for a discussion about depleted uranium and his 37-year fight to get this deadly element banned. He is joined by other members of the No Nukes group during this lively and abridged...

We revisit our discussion last Veterans Day with Dr, Kelly Denton Borhaug on Moral Injury. This is such an important discussion not only if you are a veteran but also if you are an American who is keeping up with the world wide chaos and out policies of military insanity. No wonder we are depressed.

We start with Representative Jim McGovern trying to keep President Kennedy's call for peace alive through his House Resolution 77. He is introduced by Denise Duffield of Back from the Brink. Then are American Taxpayers arming and funding Nazi's in Ukraine and if so who cares after all they have no real power. RIGHT? BUT what if they do? We heard from Aris Roussinos on UnherdTV hosted by Fr...

Let's be brutally honest President Kennedy would not recognize the country we have become. Today we remember and celebrate his call for and strategy for Peace In All Time. Harvey and Jim go step by step through the speech he gave in June of 1963 at American University, pin pointing the wisdom and humanity. They also highlight how far we have devolved as a country, as a world power, as an examp...

Gail Walker of IFCO Pastors for Peace revisited Nashville to promote the Cuba Caravan calling attention to the potential for Cuba to be a great friend to the US if we could get over our 64-year grudge. Then Gerry Condon, Helen Jaccard, and Ellen Barfield update us on the progress, the promise, and the incredible welcome the Veterans for Peace Sailboat the Golden Rule is receiving in the mid-Atlant...

Here we are another Memorial Day. This year we have as our guests Matt Hoh, Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network, and Mike Ferner, interim Executive Director of Veterans for Peace discussing the mistaken message of today's Memorial Day. We will not only get their take on the devolution of this "holiday" but we will also go into the letter to President Biden, generated b...

We talk to members of two very active chapters of Veterans for Peace, Tom Charles and Hollis Higgins of Spokane Washington, and John Wilks of Albuquerque. In Spokane, Tom has led the effort to get an ordinance passed to outlaw the nuclear weapons industry. Then John Wilks talks about the wasteland that the nuclear industry has made of New Mexico and their extensive efforts to educate the people an...

Today's show includes the wisdom of four people who will find on independent news because the truth they share is not ready for primetime mainstream media. While the subjects they talk about may seem different you can easily figure out their connection. Caitlin Johnstone talks about Biden's hypocrisy in celebrating press freedom day while persecuting Julian Assange, Krystal, and Saagar abo...

In the wake of Biden's agreement with South Korea to port nuclear-armed submarines, we rushed to get KJ Noh back on the show to discuss this deal and ask does Biden really want war with China. KJ is not optimistic about a peaceful future unless we the people demand it. Then we briefly remember that was just May Day and of course, the US ignores its workers. We finish honoring Harry Belafonte.

Today we start with Dr. Jim Rine of the Climate Crisis and Militarism Project of VFP on Earth Day and the connection between the military and the climate catastrophe. Then we hear the presentation of Professor Xia Mian during the SHAPE (Saving Humanity and Planet Earth) ( www.theshapeproject.com/ ) Webinar: The Rising Danger of Nuclear War – A Homage to Daniel Ellsberg.

PLEASE LISTEN TO THE END FOR A RECENT UPDATE FROM TENNESSEE. Today is another two-part show. We start in Tennessee where the republican caucus comes clean on their thoughts and feelings about the backlash from the expulsions. Then we turn to Krystal and Saagar and even Tucker Carlson who call out the mainstream media for their focus on the leaker and not the critical information that was leaked an...