Best jim wohlgemuth Podcasts (2025)

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Veterans for Peace with Esa Galloway and OUR EXISTENCE IS OUR RESISTANCE 1:00:00

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Esa Galloway, activist, podcaster, and friend of the show, joins us to dig deep and reflect on the substance underneath the news. Esa (Paul) Galloway returns to the show after moving from Nashville and the American Muslim Advisory Committee to activist and podcaster. We discuss Islamophobia: Is it still relevant? Anti-Semitism, so what is a Semite?…

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Dr. Lesley Gill on our complicity with fascism! 1:00:00

22d ago1:00:00

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Dr. Lesley Gill joins us to discuss complicity with trump's fascism, and by that, she means universities, businesses, law firms, and all who are willing to cave to trump's threats. She contends that this is no caving or collaborating but complicity. She also talks about the government's kidnapping of students and legal residents for deportation. Th…

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Veterans for Peace with Suzanne Gordon, Russell Lemle, and Bruce Carruthers responding to Trump and Musk's assault on the VA 1:00:00

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Trump is conducting an assault on any program that is good and helpful, and while we would like to talk about them all, we have to focus. Today, Suzanne Gordon and Russell Lemle of the Veterans Health Policy Institute join Bruce Carruthers of the Veterans for Peace Save Our VA (SOVA) working group to discuss trump and musk's assault on the VA and i…

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The Rest of the World is concerned about Nukes why aren't we? Nuclear Activists Kelly Lundeen and Antony Donovan have the answers! 1:00:00

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Antony Donovan (of Veterans for Peace) and Kelly Lundeen (of Nuke Watch)are just back from the Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons where most of the world has taken action to prohibit nuclear weapons, but where is the US, where was Biden, where is trump? They reflect on the great work being done by more tha…

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Veterans for Peace Susan Schnall VFP President calls on Vets to take a stand 1:00:00

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Susan Schnall President of Veterans for Peace spoke at the Rally in DC on Friday the 14th about all things awful about the trump/musk administration and called on all veterans to speak out against the chaos. Trump and musk continue to run roughshod over the American public and in this show, Jim and Harvey point out the dangers and then share clips …

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Veterans for Peace reflect on the Oval Office Debacle and what is next for a peace deal 1:00:00

2M ago1:00:00

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Using clips from Professor Jeffrey Sachs as he lectures the EU Parliament and from Professor John Mearsheimer on the Daniel Davies podcast, we reflect on the oval office debacle and how vance and trump's activities may have, but hopefully not, derailed the possibilities of peace in Ukraine. We also discuss Jeffrey Sach's plea with the EU to end the…

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Veterans for Peace with Anthony Donovan and Greg Mello on the insanity of deterrence 59:59

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Anthony Donovan, author, activist, and documentarian, joins Greg Mello, Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group, to discuss the idea of deterrence's lack of credibility and reflect on the insanity of the Nuclear Deterrence Summit. They then shift to Trump, Congress, the Budget, and what might be a positive budget cut for DOGE.…

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Veterans for Peace talk de-nuclearization and so does Trump, who knew? 1:00:00

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Harvey is back and shares his participation at the 2025 Nuclear Deterrence Summit just outside Washington DC, where the talk of actual deterrence was mostly absent. However, the talk of a nuclear love-fest was clear. Harvey shares some of the stories of other anti-war participants at the Bus Boys and Poets gathering and reflects on why this summit …

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Veterans for Peace revisit our show on Prince Edward County in Virginia and how what they did compares to today. 58:59

3M ago58:59

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With Trump's and Musk's war on DEI, Harvey and Jim revisit the discussion we had on Prince Edward County in Virginia when white supremacists decide to close all public schools for five years rather than segregate in the 1950's. There are more comparisons with what Trump and Musk are trying to do now with their war on DEI than you would expect. The …

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Veterans for Peace with Margaret Kimberley on everything from the FAA to Gaza to Tulsi and more 58:59

3M ago58:59

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Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report joins us to discuss the world under Trump. She weighs in on everything from the airplane disaster in DC, to the FAA, to Trumps picks, to Gaza, Ukraine, Europe, Canada, Panama, the Congo, student protests, and mainstream media failures. She also reflects on Black History Month. So buckle up it gets feisty.…

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VetsforPeace with Rich Freeman, Schiller Inst., on development for peace in Mid East 58:55

3M ago58:55

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Richard Freeman joins the show to discuss the OASIS plan as developed by the Schiller Institute to try to bring peace to the Middle East. We know that peace has not been achieved by all the methods whether diplomatic or militaristic and things seem to be getting worse. So why not try the OASIS plan which would be a cooperative effort to bring salt …

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Veterans for Peace: Cindy Piester of the VFP Climate and Militarism work group talks cliimate, cop, fires, storms, Trump and more 1:00:00

3M ago1:00:00

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With the fires raging in Southern California, Cindy Piester joins us from South California to talk about Climate Change, the fires, the hurricane in NC, and their connection to militarism. She also reflects on COP 29, Trump's drill baby drill, and is there optimism. She also turns the tables on Harvey and Jim and asks questions about nuclear war, d…

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Veterans for Peace with Gerry Condon and Helen Jaccard join us to talk Nuclear Deterrence 1:00:00

4M ago1:00:00

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We welcome Gerry Condon and Helen Jaccard back to talk about a number of issues including Pete Hegseth, Ceasefire, Trump's cabinet and then we focus on Nuclear weapons. Helen will give us an update on all things Golden Rule. Gerry talks about the work and projects of the Nuclear Abolition Work Group. Then we all talk about and help Harvey prepare f…

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Veterans for Peace, Matt Hoh joins us to give a balanced reflection on Jimmy Carter 1:00:00

4M ago1:00:00

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Jimmy Carter passed away and if you listen to the reflections either he was a saint or a sinner. Matt Hoh joins us to give a balanced view of Jimmy Carter from his troublesome Presidency and what was at the core of his policies to the humanitarian who called Israel an apartheid state and wielded a hammer for Habitat rather than a champagne glass at…

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Veterans for Peace give you an international foundation on what we have to prepare for 1:00:00

4M ago1:00:00

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Today we share a number of voices from a number of sources to give you a foundation on what is happening and what might be happening around Trump/Putin, Ukraine/Russia, Turkey/Syria, Turkey/Israel, US/Turkey/Israel, and more. We include clips from Owen Jones with Ilan Pappe, Judge Napolitano, and Alistair Crooke, as well as clips from the Internati…

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VetsforPeace welcome KJ Noh to talk chaos in S. Korea and reflect on the Han Kang Nobel Prize 1:00:00

4M ago1:00:00

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We welcome back KJ Noh for two discussions. First, we talk about Han Kang who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and why this reflects the Nobel Committee's only chance to comment on the genocide in Gaza. Then we turn to the chaos that is going on in South Korea with the President calling for Marshall Law, the legislature rejecting that, and the h…

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Veterans for Peace 2024 a little retrospective but mostly looking ahead to challenges 1:00:00

4M ago1:00:00

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Harvey and Jim reflect a little on the last year but primarily look at the importance of VFP radio/podcasts along with other independent news sources as our national media fail to provide us the information that we need to take on the powers and the problems that are engulfing the world. We look at media failures from covering up the Christmas Truc…

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Veterans for Peace on the damage project 2025 will do to Veterans and their families 1:00:00

5M ago1:00:00

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Bruce Carruthers member of Veterans for Peace and expert on VA Health Care joins us to talk about the damage that is outlined in Project 2025 on veterans' health care and veterans' benefits. We need to be worried if you get your health care from the VA or if you are a family member of someone who does especially for those ailments that can not be d…

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Veterans for Peace break down Scott Ritter's Panel on the need to contact Congress NOW! 1:00:00

5M ago1:00:00

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Harvey and Jim break down a panel discussion hosted by Scott Ritter at the National Press Club which included Dennis Kucinich, Don Kovalik, and Margaret Kimberly. With the world in chaos the panel focused on what the public needs to do and that is pepper congress with letters and calls and more. We have to get arms frozen before Biden and Blinken a…

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Veterans for Peace with Dennis Speed of International Peace Coalition and Anthony Donovan reflects on his visit to Vietnam 1:00:00

5M ago1:00:00

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We have two great guests. First Dennis Speed talks about the work of the International Peace Coalition, especially concerning the thought of peace through economic cooperation. Then friend of the show and VFP member Anthony Donovan reflects on his recent visit to Vietnam and how that war 55 years ago emphasizes a connection with today's wars in Ukr…

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Vets for Peace: 3 Air Force members seek CO discharges, here is why! 1:00:00

5M ago1:00:00

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This show is extremely important for anyone considering the military and anyone in the military who feels things are not quite right. Three members of the Air Force: Joy Metzler, Juan Betancourt and Larry Hebert join us to discuss why, after joining the military with good intentions, they decided enough was enough and are pursuing Conscientious Obj…

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eterans for Peace share a powerful interview with Gabor Mate about the damage of Zionism 1:00:00

6M ago1:00:00

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We have been waiting to share this powerful interview by Frank Barat with Gabor Mate on the current world situation surrounding Gaza and Israel. We have become numb to the tragedy and we need to recognize that so that we can continue to work together to stop the continuing funding of Israel. We must also recognize the psychological problems that we…

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Veterans for Peace welcome KJ NOH back to the show to consider a Trump Admin part two 1:00:00

6M ago1:00:00

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KJ NOH author, activist, international scholar, and friend of the show rejoins us to talk Trump part two. KJ talks about what we might want to look out for in the international policy of a Trump administration. What might be our relations with the Far East, Middle East, Russia/Ukraine, NATO, nuclear, and climate.. Will the Trump administration be t…

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Vets for Peace with Matt Hoh and Col Lawrence Wilkerson on the state of the world, yikes 1:00:00

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We finish up our interview with Matt Hoh and add portions of our webinar with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. We hear them talk about Israel, and Ukraine but mostly about the state of the empire and it is not good. They also talk about the nature of military service and the impact it can have on a young person. Col. Wilkerson also talks about our nucle…

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Vets for Peace with Matt Hoh who wonders why we are waiting patiently for the crisis, for the war? 1:00:00

7M ago1:00:00

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Matt Hoh of the Eisenhower Media Network joins us for part one of this two-part discussion. He shares his primary concern that we, the American citizens, citizens of the empire, seem to be patiently waiting for the crisis. We know something is coming, but why do we feel helpless? He talks of Israel, Ukraine, the climate, the election, and the mains…

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Veterans for Peace with Joseph Gerson, the Nobel Peace prize, a plea for peace 1:00:00

7M ago1:00:00

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Joseph Gerson is Executive Director of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security joins us to explain that the Nobel Peace prize this year is a desperate plea to the world to stop its insane rush toward nuclear confrontation. The award was given to Nihon Hidankyo, the grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Naga…

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Veterans for Peace: We need to INDICT BLINKEN for violation of US Law 1:00:00

7M ago1:00:00

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Terry Lodge, Legal Counsel for Veterans for Peace, and Mike Ferner, Executive Director for Veterans for Peace join us to discuss the immediate need to gather a panel to indict Secretary of State Blinken and the letter to the Department of Justice outlining his culpability. Veterans for Peace is taking this major stand based on recent revelations fr…

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Vets for Peace: Netanyahu escalates in Lebanon, Putin's new nuclear doc, Biden/Blinken? 1:00:00

7M ago1:00:00

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Today we review Biden's strange speech to the UN. Then Scott Ritter speaks to the Rage Against the War Machine Rally. We share Lebanese Journalist Ghadi Francis' thoughts on Lebanon and Hezbollah from the Brian Becker podcast. From the International Peace Coalition, we play portions of Dr, Glenn Diesen's presentation on Putin's new Nuclear Doctrine…

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Veterans for Peace with Ron Bettag of the Schiller Institute on a new paradigm for peace 1:00:00

8M ago1:00:00

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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 a worldwide land bridge, (a worldwide Belt and Road) in which the people benefit b…

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Veterans for Peace: Israel a long history of betrayal and murder and why the US lets them get away with it. 1:00:00

8M ago1:00:00

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The massacre on the USS Liberty demonstrates the long history of betrayal and murder of Americans by Israel. Thanks to independent journalist James Li and his interview with Phil Tourney a sailor who survived the Israeli attack, we share how Israel's disdain for American lives and US complicity in that disdain goes back decades beyond Rachel Corrie…

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Nuclear Abolition and Peace activist Anthony Donovan has the audacity to say that Iran Is NOT Our Enemy 1:00:00

8M ago1:00:00

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VFP Activist Anthony Donovan joins us to discuss his recent article in Peace and Planet News that "Iran is NOT our Enemy" despite all we hear and all we are manipulated to believe. Anthony visited Iran and met the people and reflected on the differences between what he learned on his visit versus what we are told here in the US. Anthony sees us bei…

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Veterans for Peace Convention Part Two from climate, to Gaza to police brutality on campus, to Freedom Flotilla 1:00:00

8M ago1:00:00

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Veterans for Peace held a dynamic, important Convention with incredible speakers and critical topics. From climate, to militarism, to Gaza, to police brutality on campus, to the Freedom flotilla, we try to share just a little of the impact of the Convention. The Convention demonstrated just how hard VFP is working to make this world a better and mo…

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Veterans for Peace Convention part 1 with no holds barred Margaret Kimberley and much more 1:00:00

9M ago1:00:00

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Veterans for Peace just finished a wonderful, important, timely, committed convention and in this first show, we share just a little of what went on. We share Keynote Speaker Margaret Kimberly, Four Arrows spiritual leader, Elliot Adams introducing the International Peoples Tribunal for Korean victims of US atomic bombs. We also have two military C…

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Vets for Peace with Dr. Henry Maar, his book Freeze, we did it once we have to do it again 1:00:00

9M ago1:00:00

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Dr. Henry Maar joins us to talk about his book Freeze, the Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War. Dr. Maar is considered the authority on how the Nuclear Freeze movement of the 1970s/80's began. He talks about those people and organizations that generated the Freeze Movement, their challenges, and successes. He also relates…

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Veterans for Peace with Rory Fanning on the continuing price when your priority is genocide. 1:00:00

9M ago1:00:00

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Rory Fanning veteran, author, conscientious objector, activist, and more joins us to talk about Veteran and American healthcare debt while we spend billions on supporting Israel's genocide. We get the genocide update from Max Blumenthal on the Judge Napolitano show after a heart-wrenching speech to the UN Security Council by the Deputy Observer fro…

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Veterans for Peace: Our New Mexico Nuclear Nightmare goes nationwide. 1:00:00

9M ago1:00:00

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Greg Mello, Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group and John Wilks Vice President of the Albuquerque Chapter of Veterans for Peace join us to discuss how the EPA, DOE, NNSA, and DOD are continuing to spend money fouling New Mexico while aggravating a Nuclear Conflict and creating a national nuclear waste catastrophe. However, there might b…

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Can Our Policy Makers Really Be This Stupid 1:00:00

10M ago1:00:00

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Can our policymakers at the State Department, Defense Department, and the White House really be stupid enough to give Ukraine Missiles to knock out Russian early warning systems and at the same time put missiles in Germany? How is Putin going to feel with this nuclear threat right in his backyard and at the same time having his sight knocked out? D…

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Veterans for Peace with activists in belly of our Nuclear Industrial Complex, Oakridge, tn 1:00:00

10M ago1:00:00

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The Nuclear Facility in Oak Ridge Tennessee makes nuclear bombs. We talked to people from the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA) who are trying to educate people as to the dangers of that facility in making weapons, the cost overruns at the facility, and the age and instability of this Manhattan-era facility. Tanvi Kardile, Coordinator,…

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Veterans for Peace talk Boycott, Divest, and Sanction, the time is NOW 1:00:00

10M ago1:00:00

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Dr. Javeria Farooqi joins us to talk BDS its importance, its successes, its impact, and how YOU can take part in ending apartheid, occupation, and genocide. Dr. Farooqi shows us specifically the tools we can use to Boycott. From Apps to Websites, you can view products, and stores to support or avoid. She also talks about how your investments can be…

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Veterans for Peace Members talk US culpability while one faces charges for trying to share 1:00:00

10M ago1:00:00

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Jack Gilroy faces jail time for trying to share Terry Lodge's VFP letter that outlines US culpability in genocide by supporting Israel. Terry Lodge drafted a letter which was signed by Susan Schnall, President and Mike Ferner, Executive Director of Veterans for Peace. The letter, addressed to the State Department, outlines the 5 laws and one Execut…

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Veterans for Peace: Nuclear Power and Weapons in a Time of Rising Tensions Webinar 1:00:00

11M ago1:00:00

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The Veterans for Peace Nuclear Abolition working group hosted an important webinar about Nuclear Power and Nuclear weapons with William Hartung of the Quincy Institute, Linda Pentz-Gunther of Beyond Nuclear, and Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group. In the show, Harvey and Jim abridged, discussed, and emphasized the topics discussed during the …

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Veterans for Peace: Veterans for Peace: VFP Members taking a stand with their feet Walking for Peace to DC 1:00:00

11M ago1:00:00

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Members of Veterans for Peace are once again not sitting idly by while the world devolves into calamity. Members Tarak Kauff, Ellen Davidson, and Anthony Donovan join us to talk about their peace walk which originated in Maine with a destination of Washington, D.C. on July 5, 2024. We caught up with them in Pennsylvania where they had just left Phi…

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Veterans for Peace each year the words of JFK become more important and more ignored, but at our own peril! 1:00:00

11M ago1:00:00

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As we remember President Kennedy's Peace Speech at American University on June 10, 1963, we realize that with each passing year, his words are more important and more recognized, but also more ignored by US leaders. This year we add the input of Dr. Jeffrey Sachs who reflects on how the last five presidents have specifically ignored President Kenne…

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Veterans for Peace: The US is developing a KILL CHAIN, WHY? KJ Noh has the answer! 1:00:00

11M ago1:00:00

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While all eyes seem to be on Gaza, we ignore what the US is doing in Asia at our own peril. Author, scholar, activist, and teacher K.J.Noh returns to the show to explain what the US is doing in the Pacific. He explains the Pentagon plan called "transnational kill chain" and why the US continues to try to generate alliances to encircle and threaten …

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Veterans for Peace profile Breaking the Silence is this a VFP counterpart? 1:00:00

12M ago1:00:00

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Harvey and Jim profile the Israeli organization of IDF Veterans called Breaking the Silence which, like VFP, is trying to get the word out to the public of the futility of war. We also have a clip of Ayman Mohyeldin criticizing his own MSNBC along with final reflections of Memorial Day. We finish up with a song from Maher Zain, Palestine Will Be Fr…

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Veterans for Peace with Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug on Memorial Day and Moral Injury 1:00:00

12M ago1:00:00

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Are Moral Injury and Memorial Day in the US intertwined? Does our war culture, supported by the church, the military, our education, our politics, our defense industry, silence our national need to grieve war? Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug, author of "And Then Your Soul is Gone, Moral Injury and US War Culture, joins us to discuss that question and they…

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Veterans for Peace on the student protests, are they student or are they our teachers? 1:00:00

12M ago1:00:00

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Harvey and Jim discuss the student protests and the unconscionable lies coming from the speaker of the house and the president weaponizing the Holocaust. Using recent clips from Breaking Points, System Update, and Shahid Bolsen they look at the attempts of the government to manipulate and generate a narrative of anti-Semitism to demean and condemn …

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The Freedom Flotilla was stopped for now, get a personal update from two volunteers, and meet the new Executive Director of Veterans for Peace and join his new vision. 1:00:00

1y ago1:00:00

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Will Hopkins, the new Executive Director of Veterans for Peace joins Barry Riesch and Colleen Rowley Freedom Flotilla volunteers as we discuss today's VFP activism and tomorrow's activism. Will leads off by discussing how he went from combat to the peace movement and what he sees as vision and challenge for VFP. Then we turn to Barry and Colleen wh…

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Veterans for Peace with a Vet Health Care update, then updates from campus and the flotilla 1:00:00

1y ago1:00:00

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Bruce Carruthers our resident expert on VA Health Care updates us on a VA report that slams privatization, but can we get it released so that it can make a difference? Then we turn to Student protests with an update from the encampment at Vanderbilt. Then the Freedom Flotilla was blocked through the efforts of Israel and the US. Will another countr…

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Veterans for Peace: Criminality, Suppression, Capitalism and the right to resist 1:00:00

1y ago1:00:00

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Today Harvey and Jim catch up and follow up with the alumni and student involved in the protest on the Vanderbilt campus. Harvey targets Boeing putting profit over passenger safety. We also reflect on an interview between Aaron Mate and Norman Finkelstein from six years ago about the Palestinian right to resist, the right to defend themselves. Vete…

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