Veterans

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director Last week, veteran AP reporter Robert Burns wrote an interesting article on the 9/11 anniversary  titled “War Weary US is Numbed to Drumbeat of Troop [...]

Johnny Barber of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, who is currently in Kabul, writes inspiringly of a new initiative by the youth group Afghan Peace Volunteers called 2 Million Friends, an [...]

Stupidest. Show. Ever. Tell NBC to cancel its asinine “Star Earns Stripes” “reality show” that is meant to “honor the troops.” How does trivializing war honor [...]

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director Norwegian philosopher and peace studies pioneer Johan Galtung has a very useful analytic framework for peace and justice activists in our current times, [...]

It’s tempting to say no comment is necessary about this absurd story in Crain’s Chicago Business that some Loop (downtown Chicago) office workers are being told to dress down and [...]

–Executive Director Kevin Martin In just over a month, peace activists and allies from other social justice movements from around the country and around the world will gather in Chicago [...]

Posted on Tue, Jan. 03, 2012   http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/03/v-print/3350801/the-iraq-war-was-our-greatest.html Iraq War Was the United States’ Greatest Foreign Policy Disaster  By [...]

  BY MADELYN HOFFMAN GUEST COLUMNIST Bloomfield Life, December 28, 2011   As 2011 ends, it is time to reflect upon continuing U.S. involvement in overseas wars and the impact that involvement has [...]

Bring the war dollars home By Betsy Crites Herald-Sun guest columnist The withdrawal from Iraq is to be celebrated like a migraine that finally subsides. It is what the majority of Americans have [...]

Less than 1% of the nation serves in our Armed Forces, and like many of you mentioned in your comments on the Iraq War, we are deeply gratified that many of them are returning home this winter. [...]