November 11, 2008
Our holiday that marks the end of “The Great War” is now called Veterans’ Day, yet it’s worth taking a moment to recollect when it was called Armistice Day and meant more than midnight madness sales at department stores.
November 5, 2008
“This amazing thing that happened in America — that only we, as Americans, can understand and share — won’t make a difference to the world, to the children in Baghdad, Beirut, Gaza, and Teheran, and all the other places in the crosshairs of our guns — unless we make that difference.
October 23, 2008
It is not pleasant to conclude that, contrary to what you’ve learned all your life, the place you call home has become just another empire intent on enforcing its will on humanity.
September 24, 2008
The veterans emphasized they are taking this action because “Bush and Cheney’s serial abuse of the Law of the Land clearly marks them as domestic enemies of the Constitution…they have illegally invaded and occupied Iraq, deliberately destroyed civilian infrastructure, authorized torture, and unlawfully detained prisoners.
September 6, 2008
With the Republican National Convention following hard on their annual meeting in this city, Veterans For Peace adopted two resolutions last week, notifying whoever wins this November’s election, regardless of party, that the wars aren’t going away.
