Military Moral Injury, Violence, and the Parable of the Guinea Worm
An Unexpected Encounter with Compassion.
Privatizing the VA Will Be a Disaster for Rural Vets
Forcing millions of veterans out of the VA and into our crumbling rural hospitals will hurt both vets and their communities.
Can Warriors Stop Endless Wars?
The Role of Veterans in Movements for Peace and Justice.
Meet the US Soldiers and Bureaucrats Defecting Over Gaza
Defectors from the U.S. military and federal agencies are using their unique influence to push for an end to the war in Gaza.
[rewind] Ron Kovic and Maj. Danny Sjursen: The Great Con of American Patriotism
The two veterans trace the United States' violent trajectory since the Vietnam War.
America’s Remarkable Unwillingness to Support Its Veterans
Andrea Mazzarino explores how so many of the American military personnel dispatched to fight it and the rest of the disastrous Global War on Terror have suffered until this very…
Veterans Understand Martin Luther King Jr’s Powerful Demand for Peace
Foreign policy is a blind spot for Americans. This became part of Martin Luther King’s message.
What It Means for Hunger to Burn Through the Pentagon’s Ranks
Co-creator of the Costs of War Project and military spouse Andrea Mazzarino describes in all-too-devastating detail that a staggeringly over-funded military-industrial complex is, to use Eisenhower’s phrasing, indeed stealing from…
US Veterans Call for Holiday Truce, Ceasefire and Negotiations to End War in Ukraine
We want urgent, good-faith diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine, not more U.S. weapons, advisors, and endless war.
The Chris Hedges Report: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars
In their new book, veterans Andrew Bacevich and Danny Sjursen describe how the realities of war expose the lies told by generals and politicians about American goodness and virtue.
Ron Kovic: The Dark Irony of This Patriotic Orgy and the Celebration of War
Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic, author of “Born on the Fourth of July” and subject of Oliver Stone’s iconic Vietnam War film, will mark his 76 th birthday watching a…
A Trail of Tears: How Veterans Return From America’s Wars
By Ann Jones / TomDispatch Best of TomDispatch: Ann Jones, War Wounds America’s Father’s Day was first celebrated on June 19, 1910, in Washington State. That was only a few…
[rewind] Ron Kovic and Maj. Danny Sjursen: The Great Con of American Patriotism
The two veterans trace the United States' violent trajectory since the Vietnam War.
The Military Wasn’t a Way Out of Poverty For Me
Instead, militarism is why so many of us are poor in the first place.