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Veterans Group to D.O.J.: Impanel Grand Jury, Indict Blinken

Department of State officials call him out for lying to Congress “That report and its flagrant untruths will haunt us.” A national veterans’ organization today called for a grand jury to indict Department of State (DOS) Secretary Antony Blinken and…

AIPAC’s War on Democracy: Joint Statement from Veterans For Peace and Move to Amend

Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza has produced increasing calls for an immediate ceasefire, while a pro-Israel, U.S.-based group has waged an increasing war on democracy with little public scrutiny and no end in sight. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee…

Ron Bettag of the Schiller Institute interview on the Veterans for Peace Radio Hour

Ron Bettag of the Schiller Institute joins us to discuss the International Coalition of Peace and the new paradigm for peace. The Schiller Institute for decades has been advocating for people through global development through mutual cooperation. They have envisioned…

Veterans to Vice President Harris: Push Now to End the Siege of Gaza

    Call for a Permanent Ceasefire and Emergency Food and Medical Aid By Gerry Condon The national organization Veterans For Peace has written an Open Letter to Vice President Kamala Harris, asking her to push for an immediate end to…

BCR: Walking for Peace in Inwood Park

For this Bar Crawl Radio conversation we were not at a bar having a conversation with people working positively for their communities – but at Inwood Park – in upper Manhattan – former home of the Lenape People. Catholic Worker,…

Veterans’ Group Opposes Extending Benefits to Americans Fighting for Israel

Veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam and other U.S. wars today blasted a House resolution to extend federal benefits to U.S. citizens who join the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in its war against Palestinians. Veterans For Peace announced its opposition to…

Memorial Day is a day for remembering the victims of war.

Members of Veterans For Peace remember America’s war dead not just once a year, but every day of our lives, with the solemnity they deserve, not the crass commercialism Memorial Day has become. We remember the war dead and the…

Veterans Deliver Letters to U.S. State Department Offices Across U.S., Urging Criminal Investigation of Biden Administration’s Arms Shipments to Israel

In sixteen U.S. cities, March 5-7, members of Veterans For Peace will hand deliver an exhaustively researched letter to U.S. State Department offices that has gotten no response from the department’s Inspector-General since February 11. The cities are Buffalo, New…

Veterans to Biden U.S. Law Says No Weapons to Nations With Bombs if They’ve Not Signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty

In a letter today to President Biden and top members of his administration, Veterans For Peace cited existing federal law that gives the President “…no discretion whatsoever to allow any military assistance of any form to be delivered to Israel,” based on…

Witnessing the Gaza genocide and dealing with despair

What I Learned While Trying to Get to the Rafah Border Crossing By Gerry Condon Representing Veterans For Peace in Cairo Israel’s genocidal assault on the civilian population of Gaza is not being carried out by carpet bombing alone. Electricity…

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