Podcasts about Veterans for Peace

Susan Schnall and Trevor Howard are both members of Veterans For Peace who are calling on present-day U.S. soldiers and national guardsman to be ready to disobey unlawful orders from the Trump regime.

Eon Huntley is a retail worker, union activist, former PTA president and democratic socialist. He is running against a pro-corporate incumbent in Assembly District 56 (Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights) on Zohran Mamdani's affordability agenda. Huntley's friend and ally Jabari Brisport is running hard for his fourth term in the New York State Senate in an overlapping Central Brooklyn district. We caught up with both of them on Tuesday for a live interview from their shared campaign headquarters on Tompkins Avenue in the heart of Bed-Stuy. Susan Schnall and Trevor Howard are both members of Veterans For Peace who are calling on present-day U.S. soldiers and national guardsman to be ready to disobey unlawful orders from the Trump regime.

Haitham Arafat, Palestinian American, cyber security consultant and engineer, born in Gaza and Global Sumud Flotilla activist joins us to share his experience in a boat crossing the Mediterranean and then captured, detained, and tortured by Israel. We have all seen bits and pieces of what the participants experienced in Israeli "concentration camps," however, Haitham shares his story of the collective torture perpetrated on the international humanitarians trying to bring aid to the people of Gaza. It was worse than we have heard and provides further evidence of the crimes being committed by the Israeli regime.

Dan Wilcox of Veterans for Peace talks with Mark Dunlea of Hudson Mohawk Magazine about why they annually participate in Albany's Memorial Day Parade.

In this episode Josh Shurley talks with Jacqueline Luqman about the Black Alliance for Peace, which focuses on anti-imperialist struggle and addressing issues of capitalism, militarism, and racialized oppression. They discussed a recent peace delegation to Venezuela, where they both participated. The conversation highlighted the connection between Dr. Martin Luther King's concept of the "Triple Evils" and global struggles against these issues.The conversation expanded to include AFRICOM's role in Africa, particularly regarding the Sahel Alliance countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger) that are challenging imperial control. The episode concluded with a discussion of the Black Alliance for Peace's campaigns, including calls for U.S. withdrawal from Africa and a boycott of the World Cup.

Two members of Veterans for Peace were arrested last week for getting into good trouble at the Rotunda of the Cannon Office Building in the Capitol.  Joy Metzler and Michael McPhearson participated in a protest with more than 100 other veterans and family members to call for the end of the US / Israeli war of CHOICE.  They both join the show to share why they were there and why the action was so important, and why speaker of the house mike johnson were not brave enough to hear their demand.  Joy also talked about all the resources available for young people in the military and considering the military to use to make a choice that fits with their moral compass.

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about Iran, the world, and the problem of war. Our guest Matthew Hoh is a disabled Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War and former Afghan War State Department Officer. In 2009, after being appointed to the Foreign Service, Hoh resigned his post in Afghanistan over the Obama administration's escalation of the Afghan War. He is now an analyst and commentator on foreign and military policy issues as a senior fellow with the Eisenhower Media Network. He serves on the advisory boards of many peace organizations, including Veterans For Peace and World BEYOND War, and is an associate member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

Craig Bardo friend of the show joins us to discuss, what else, our miscalculations of the people and commitment of the people of Iran and our manipulation by Israel. We realize how the US empire is in jeopardy and that Israel has lost any claim of a moral high ground.

Reverend David Gierlach, Vicar, Emmanuel Episcopal Church,HI joins us to discuss the manipulation and misinterpretation of the message of Jesus to reflect the civil society of the US and the dangers that brings when incorporated into our military.

Matt Hoh, Senior Fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network joins us to explain yet another motive Israel has in manipulating Trump into attacking Iran. Then on to the Iranian response and their motive to make the world pay.

Representatives of Veterans for Peace discuss their up-coming national conference August 6-9, which they are organizing at UMKC. Guests include Bryson Ripley, a former US Marine and president of their Kansas City chapter. They are interviewed by Spencer Graves. Some might claim that (a) everyone would be safer and more prosperous with honest defense of the bottom 99%, and (b) instead we have a publicly funded escort service pressuring foreign governments to prioritize international business interests over those of their citizens.

K.J. Noh returns to the show and this time he is talking about the prospects of US war on Iran, will trump or won't trump. Of course the smart thing is don't do it but is trump under too much pressure from netanyahu. Then we turn to Marco Rubio at the Munich Security conference and his revisionism and mendacity as he proposed a New Western Century.

Greg Mello, Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group joins us to discuss the expiration of the New Start treaty and the impact that expiration is going to have around the globe and right here in the US. We are in for difficult and dangerous times but Greg also wants us to look for any silver lining and thus he points several out.

What is an illegal order?  Terry Lodge of VFP joins us to explain.  Why do service people need that information?  We share clips from Danny Haiphong  with Ali Alizadeh and KJ Noh on trump's threats of war with Iran.

Harvey and Jim discuss the domestic and international thugery being displayed by the trump administration. They start off with an update (????) on Minneapolis and then switch to clips from Jeffrey Sachs and John Mearsheimer from Breaking Points.

Harvey found a great clip from the Chris Hedges Report (http://chrishedges.substack.com/) with Norman Finkelstein in which they discuss the recent UN Security Council Resolution to support the Trump peace plan and Peace Board for Gaza. Does this resolution undermine human rights, the UN Charter, the United Nations itself?

Using a variety of clips, Jim and Harvey discuss US Government terrorism in the streets of the United States and around the world, focusing on Venezuela.

Two activists, Anthony Donovan and Delaney Wilder, are just back from the West Bank where they lived, talked, and ate with the Palestinian people who are under siege from Israeli settlers. The witnessed the apartheid, the oppression, the daily insults, the abuse, and the neglect from the Israeli government and the IOF. Yet the Palestinian people opened their hearts, homes and kitchens to Anthony and Delaney, This show is what they saw and heard.

Zahid and Melissa Chaudry, who are true patriots and demonstrate what Americans can be, join Harvey and Jim to discuss more than two decades of government harassment of this disabled Army veteran. They relate government criminality dating back to FBI efforts coercing Zahid to set up fellow innocent Muslim post 911. They relate decades of harassment from INS and other government agencies as Zahid followed all the rules to try to gain citizenship. They relate his abduction and confinement in an ICE detention center and their extra judicial efforts to deport him without due process. They relate the findings of the District 9 just who released him condemning the DOJ.

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 threatening setting up an attack on Venezuela? What is the response of the Global South and BRICS?

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 tensions with Venezuela and the Caribbean. Find out how you can get this important play into your town along with ideas for getting students active in peace from elementary through college.

    Today on the show: We talk to, Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva. The first Chicana to represent the State of Arizona. We talk with two “Warrior Women”, Madonna Thunder Hawk and her daughter Marcella Gilbert. And The U.S Peace Prize goes to: Gerry Condon ““For Courageous Resistance to War, Long-term Leadership of Veterans For Peace and Opposition to Nuclear Weapons.”   The post Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva & “Warrior Women”, Madonna Thunder Hawk and her daughter Marcella Gilbert appeared first on KPFA.

Greg Payton, author, activist for peace,  Vietnam Veteran, VVAW and VFP member joins us to talk about his new book "Peace Warrior"   Greg tracks his journey from the projects, to Vietnam, to addiction, PTSD , recovery and his continued optimism for peace, harmony, and humanity.   Greg's experience in Vietnam showed the challenges that an out spoken black man in the Army will face and the punishments to be endured.  However, beyond Vietnam Greg demonstrated the resilience and commitment that took him to apartheid South Africa, and civil war torn Belfast.  His is an amazing story of survival when so many wanted to silence him.

Veterans United for Peace held a powerful webinar on Armistice Day evening in which Phil Tottenham, Hani, Nofal, Brian McGinnis, Greg Stoker, Anthony Aguilar, and Josephine Guilbeau all shared powerful messages. They talked about the military, the US empire, their service and participation, coming to realize what they were doing, reflecting on Aaron Bushnell, and more. In this episode we concentrate on Greg Stoker, Anthony Aguilar, and Josephine Guilbeau. We finish up with Phil Ochs.

After hearing from Dr. Kelly Benton-Borhaug on Military Moral Injury last week, we decided to replay a show from a year ago with three military members who have a conscience and who could not take what the military was doing and supporting any longer. This is the perfect follow up.!

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.

Ruth and Anoosh join us this week to interview Joy Metzler from Veterans for Peace and James from Veterans Against the Machine to discuss their journey from being members of the war machine to becoming activists against the Gaza Genocide.

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 Podcaster Greg Stoker. We finish with a song from Tom Morello.

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 the example they give to all of us. She also points out that the oppression we see coming from Israel is also right here on our streets and the role VFP and ALLIES can take to resist.

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 can not believe in one and not the other.

Peace activists sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla reported Wednesday evening that Israeli naval ships had begun intercepting vessels in their fleet and arresting flotilla members. On Tuesday, just hours before the flotilla entered the “high-risk zone” near the shores of Gaza, Marc Steiner spoke with Phillip Tottenham and Jessica Coltfelter, two US Marine Corps veterans sailing with the flotilla. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Tottenham and Coltfelter discuss why they, as veterans, felt compelled to join this humanitarian mission, and what message they wanted to share with the world in the event of their capture—or worse—by Israel.Guest:Philip Tottenham is a US Marine Corps veteran, a member of Veterans For Peace, and a peace and human rights activist.Jessica Coltfelter, is a US Marine Corps veteran (2008-2012) who served as security detail for Presidential Helicopter Squadron Marine One and, upon End of Active Service, worked as a defense contractor for Triple Canopy. Refusing to perpetuate imperialism, Coltfelter became an activist, educator, and an anti-fascist librarian serving rural and marginalized communities in pursuit of mindful liberation.Additional resources:Global Sumud Flotilla website, TikTok, and InstagramEphrat Livni and Liam Stack, The New York Times, “Israel intercepts boats headed to Gaza with humanitarian aid”Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network,”‘If I'm killed on this mission…': Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail for Gaza despite Israel's threats”Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “Why US veterans are sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla”Credits:Producer: Rosette SewaliStudio Production: Cameron GranadinoAudio Post-Production: Stephen FrankFollow The Marc Steiner Show on Spotify Follow The Marc Steiner Show on Apple PodcastsHelp us continue producing The Marc Steiner Show by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on:Bluesky: @therealnews.comFacebook: The Real News NetworkTwitter: @TheRealNewsYouTube: @therealnewsInstagram: @therealnewsnetworkWE'RE FINALISTS FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS SIGNAL AWARDS. HELP US WIN!Click here to vote!:https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2025/shows/genre/historyMichael Fox is also a finalist in the History Podcast category for his truly unique, rich, and inspirational weekly series Stories of Resistance------------Click here to vote for Marc Steiner!: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2025/individual-episodes/cMarc Steiner is a finalist for Best Host of an Individual Episode 

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 country and plan on doing three tours of those air shows with an RV filled with Climate and Militarism information. Why air shows? This is where they can get the most people to educate about the military's huge impact on the climate. FIND OUT IF THEIR TOUR IS COMING TO YOUR TOWN AND HOW YOU CAN HELP, EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT ON THE TOUR. Time to get back on the road again.

In the 1980s, students practiced getting underneath their desks in the case of a nuclear attack. Protests routinely focused on the threat of nuclear war and the need for non-proliferation. Today, the concern about nuclear war is barely mentioned — even though a growing list of countries wants to join the nuclear club. Why is that? Our guests will discuss the change in public concern, and how they view the nuclear threat today.Our guests: Holly Adams, member of Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace and steering committee member of Peace Action New York State Rev. James L Swarts, president of Veterans For Peace, Chapter 23, Rochester Timmon Wallis, executive director of Nuclear Ban US, national coordinator of the Warheads to Windmills Coalition and author of "Nuclear Abolition: A Scenario" ---Connections is supported by listeners like you. Head to our donation page to become a WXXI member today, support the show, and help us close the gap created by the rescission of federal funding.---Connections airs every weekday from noon-2 p.m. Join the conversation with questions or comments by phone at 1-844-295-TALK (8255) or 585-263-9994, email, Facebook or Twitter. Connections is also livestreamed on the WXXI News YouTube channel each day. You can watch live or access previous episodes here.---Do you have a story that needs to be shared? Pitch your story to Connections.

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.

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 fairy?  Do we need to practice some dark humor to spread the word?  What will get people off the couch?

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 corporate backing. From immigration to genocide, from proxy war against Russia to war against workers, from climate to health care, we can track it all back to corporations and capitalism. Mike shows how corporations have been in charge of our country for the most part of over 100 years and with the help of the supreme court (purposely not capitalized) their power is greater than ever. That is why Mike and over 300,000 members of MovetoAmend are working hard to educate the public in order to take away corporate power.

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 community if this is how they want their tax dollars spent.  Why is Elbit, an Israeli genocidal company, in South Carolina and ten other facilities across the country, here in the US, with our government's endorsement and support?  These two answer the question and then ask what you can do to stop them.

After sharing our despair and anger over US complicity in genocide, we turn to Trump's assault on the VA.  Thanks to the Veterans for Peace convention, we have great and important content.  This week, we hear from Paul Sullivan on VBA, and then Suzanne Gordon on VHA.  Paul discusses the 6 threats to Veterans Benefits, while Suzanne covers the waterfront on the great service VA provides while the government tries to send veterans to a private sector health provider that does not exist.     Jim's number to text is 703 403 6135

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 also shares what we must do to relieve ourselves of corporate domination.  Anthony was going to visit Iran, but the US and Israel derailed that trip, so Anthony supported the fast and still fills us in on Iran as they await the next aggressive US/Israeli actions.  We finish with the Kronos Quartet and their dynamic cover of Bob Dylan's Hard Rain Gonna Fall.

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 sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur. We will share clips of her continuing revelations of the US complicity with genocide with its support of Israel despite these sanctions.

Today on the Show: We'll feature an extended interview with United Farm Workers President, Teresa Romero, speaking out against the crackdown on those brown workers who do the hardest work in this country and now face jail and deportation for their amazing and crucial efforts. Romero was arrested recently during a UCSF Reagent's meeting in San Francisco to express total solidarity with UC frontline workers. Also, Renee Saucedo, founder of ALMAS Libres/Raizes Collective joins us for a report on the Trump crackdown on domestic workers and day laborers. And Mike Fernera, past national director of Veterans For Peace,threw blood on the U.S. mission in New York and sai The post United Farm Workers President, Teresa Romero Speaks Out Against Trumps Racist Deportation Crackdown appeared first on KPFA.

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 good way to address it. John talks about the Israeli nuclear weapons program not to deter but to threaten their neighbors and the US. John also talks about what we need to do to address this danger.

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 aggression against Iran is actually part of the neocon plan for war with China to maintain US hegemony. So, stand by this one is rough.

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 for the fast are doing more. Despite health challenges and aging challenges, Mike is out there in front of the UN, in front of the US Mission to the UN, with co-organizer Phil Tottenham and other members and allies making a difference. What are you going to do to stop genocide?

As famine and starvation spreads across Gaza, CUNY students and veterans here in New York have launched separate hunger strikes in opposition to the U.S.-backed genocide. We speak with a hunger-striking veteran and a hunger-striking grad student.

Here's your local news for Monday, May 26, 2025:We head downtown for a Memorial Day rally and community gathering,Check in on Madison's Office of the Independent Monitor following their public presentation this weekend,Share the local government's calendar for the week ahead,Mark the anniversary of an uprising in Wales,Teach you how to make a popular cocktail,Review two new movies,And much more.

The local chapter of Veterans for Peace will be marching in the Albany Memorial Day parade, as it has done for decades. The group is calling for immediate ceasefires in the various conflicts that the US is engaged in such as Ukraine and Gaza. Poet and veteran Dan Wilcox talks with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

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 calls out the democrats and then equates the US and Israel with Nazi Germany. We finish with Maura O'Connell bringing Out the Guns of Love. Good time to lock and load those guns.

Brian Becker of the Socialist Program podcast joins us to talk about trump, the world, the right-wing threats worldwide, and the need for socialism now. Boomers grew up in fear of this dreaded system called socialism, even though it is and has been working in the thriving countries of Europe. Brian discusses why boomers feel this way and how to alleviate fears of a system that works for the people instead of the profiteers. For a song, we remember that 55 years ago, four students at Kent State and two more at Jackson State were killed by our government.