Veterans lead dramatic act of civil resistance at White House – Over 130 arrested protesting the wars. This statement was sent into Veterans Today via Facebook on December 21, 2010 from the young Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans’ group March Forward and is closer to the reality of war than the sanitized versions of Happy Military [...]
White House Afghanistan Progress Means Staying the Course This was sent to Veterans Today from Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). Posted on behalf of IVAW by Robert L. Hanafin, Veterans Issues and Peace Activism Editor, Veterans Today News Network
ROCKERS TOPS IN VET SUPPORT! By Bobby Hanafin STAFF WRITER/Editor When it comes to doing their research on checking out the most efficient and effective Veteran, Troop, and Military Family efforts and causes to contribute to or work with, we at Veterans Today were amazed to find that Mike Bertolami a musician with the Band [...]
Peace Veterans and Supporters Mass at the Gates of Power – 16 Dec 2010 Back in late November, Veterans Today published an Action Alert from Veterans and Military Families in the Peace Movement converging on the White House to demand an end to the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan in my article December 16, 2010: [...]
Psychologist Dr. Johanna (Hans) Buwalda is a therapist providing Mental Health advise and assistance as one of Vietnam Veterans Against the War’s Military Counselors. This presentation covers several suggestions that could make VA Mental Health accessible to more Veterans of all wars, IF the VA would stop using these these eight words, “this is not a place to talk politics” the hidden intent is to suppress dissenting views on WAR!
When the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the early 1980s, one of the last acts of the Carter Administration was to implement a limited military draft that today still funds the U.S. Selective Service System and THE DRAFT collecting personal data on young Americans 18 and over, although the political possibility of conscription appears [...]
Endorsers of the December 16 Veteran-Led Civil Resistance against War has asked Veterans Today to post this Call to Action. Although these may or may not be the views of Veterans Today News Network, we have decided to give organizations in the Peace Movement a VOICE. Posted on behalf of Veterans for Peace by: Robert [...]
Giving Thanks Give Thanks that the War(s) have not spread even futher THUS FAR requiring the other 99% of Americans to understand what the two word THE DRAFT really mean. Give Thanks that the rest of America does not not to concern themselves with the other 1% carrying the burdens of war. Give Thanks for [...]
Retraction of the Article OUTRAGEOUS: Joe & Jill Biden lie about military families speaking out against the wars After receiving an ACTION ALERT from Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) late last week regarding an interview on Larry King Live recently that led to my article OUTRAGEOUS: Joe & Jill Biden lie about military families speaking [...]
As the lame duck Congress scrambles to pass as much legislation as it can before Conservatives once again take over the House, the debate over Gays in the Military rages on with efforts to pass repeal of DADT and efforts to stop it.
It is going to take much more people than the Veterans and Military Families in the Peace Movement to be able to connect the dots between the fiscal costs of Wars and the threat to Social Security and other domestic programs. The CATO Institute provides talking points on how to cut the Defense Budget and save Social Security.
This Veterans Day members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) set out to educate the public and electorate about the military’s desperation for ground troops to maintain a killer operations tempo in Iraq and Afghanistan is leading to the deployment of traumatized troops with PTSD.
Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) has joined with Veterans for Peace in launching a public education campaign to remind the public and voters of the fiscal costs of War, and the impact the War Economy has on all Americans.
We at Veterans Today strive to help those grassroots organizations that know how to connect the dots between America at War and the meltdown of the U.S. Economy do a better job. It is very timely that VT posted several aspects of this in War and Slaughter as Economic Stimulus Veterans for Peace (VFP) has [...]
This article relates to the loss of Veteran friendly members of Congress and the potential impact on Veterans benefits with a focus on the Post 911 GI Bill
This will be a multi-part article covering the need for military veterans to have legal protections as a socio-economic, and political class.
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) calls for US government accountability for wiki-leaks exposures, a focus on exposures instead of who exposed the truths about the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Internal Debate Within the VFW brings the relationship of their Veterans’ advocacy group and Political Action Committee under scrutiny. While catching up on my emails this morning, I was led to two articles posted on Congress.org about disunity within the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) that pit their national leadership against grassroots members of the VFW.
APATHY and the Wars While doing background research for my recent article, Why are Veterans and Wars off the Political Radar?, I ran across this opinion piece, on the Goals for Americans website titled, “WAR AND APATHY: The Shameful indifference many Americans feel about The Iraq War.” This was part of my inspiration to write [...]
Veterans Today shares the concerns of those Veterans advocacy groups that the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and the Veterans who served in them are off the Radar this election, and how the apathy of Congress and the American voter has failed America’s Veterans, Troops, and Military Families. This is due solely to APATHY. We at [...]
Far too Veterans Today encounter a variety of non-financial problems going to college that require substantial adjustment as they make the transition adapting from military to college life.
In response to these growing incidents of Stolen Valor and exploitation of our Vets, troops and Military Families, Voters for Peace, through their allied organization Prosperity Agenda, has called upon the Department of Justice to begin a criminal investigation of non-profit SCAMS being used to take unlimited, anonymous donations in an attempt to influence the vote.
As a Life Member of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), I first noted the potential for the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act to eventually be challenged was while reading my latest edition of the VVA Veteran Magazine.
As follow-up to my last update on Operation Recovery, and with the Congressional elections only a few weeks away, Voters for Peace the grassroots political action committee (PAC) of the Peace movement has decided to join Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), Gold Star Families Speak Out (GSFSO), and Veterans [...]
This posting is a follow-up to Veterans Today coverage of Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) and Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) forming an alliance with other progressive Veterans groups to implement Operation Recovery. Afghanistan & Iraq Vets Call for End to Deployment of Traumatized Troops http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/06/afghanistan-iraq-vets-call-for-end-to-deployment-of-traumatized-troops/ Military Families join IVAW in Operation Recovery: Stop [...]
IVAW – Operation Recovery Veterans Today has already published several articles about the likelihood that military commanders in dire need of warriors in combat are sending wounded warriors back into combat and multiple deployments who are not fit. Sign the Petition for Operation Recovery – STOP deploying injured troops! Military Families join Operation Recovery: Stop [...]
Veterans Today recently published two notices related to Iraq Veterans Against the War’s (IVAW’s) plan to kick off Operation Recovery their campaign to defend GIs’ and veterans’ right to heal. Military Families join Operation Recovery: Stop the Deployment of Traumatized Troops. Sign the Petition for Operation Recovery – STOP deploying injured troops! Thus far, in [...]
Less than a week after Veterans Today posted Sign the Petition for Operation Recovery – STOP deploying injured troops!, Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) has joined Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) in helping to promote this effort. ROBERT L. HANAFIN, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired, U.S. Civil Service-Retired, Veterans Issues Editor, Veterans Today News Network, [...]
About a month ago I asked Peggy Logue the author of the book Skin in the Game- Supporting the Troops Without Supporting the War – Journey of a Mother and her Marine Son to send me the book so that I could do a review. Suffice it to say that I just couldn’t put the [...]
Only a day before the release of Bob Woodword’s new book “Obama’s War” an expose of infighting within the Obama administration over Afghanistan, the progressive grassroots activist group ReThink Afghanistan came out with a video depicting just how much Generals under Gates despise and challenge their Commander-In-Chief. The main message of this new video produced [...]
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