Rep. Ro Khanna Says Fellow Democrats Should Support Diplomacy With North Korea
June 15, 2018
On Monday, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), joined by 14 fellow Democratic United States House of Representatives members, sent a letter to President Donald Trump supporting Trump pursuing diplomacy and “incremental progress” with North Korea. The letter also expresses concern about efforts toward peace being hindered by people – both Republican and Democrat, and both inside […]
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Does the Burns/Novick Vietnam Documentary Deserve an Emmy?
June 15, 2018
Emmy nominations are ongoing. Veterans For Peace recently announced it will place this full-page ad in Variety urging an Emmy not be awarded to the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary, The Vietnam War. The Hollywood Reporter has refused to run the ad. Here, Vietnam veteran, Doug Rawlings, adds his voice to why the filmmakers should not […]
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Veterans Applaud Progress for Peace in Korea
June 14, 2018
Veterans For Peace is absolutely delighted that peace is breaking out on the Korean Peninsula. We congratulate the Korean people, who cried out for peace and unity, and we applaud their leaders, who listened and acted courageously. The joint statement from the historic summit between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un is a hopeful […]
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Save Yemen’s Children: Heartbreaking Messages From Yemen’s Children to US Senators
June 14, 2018
From Avaaz:
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The US-Backed Assault on Yemeni Port Has Started
June 14, 2018
Originally appeared on The American Conservative. ABC News reports on the start of the Saudi coalition’s attack on the port of Hodeidah: As many as 22 million people – three-quarters of Yemen’s population – could be at risk of losing access to necessary food and medicines they receive through the port, amid a worsening humanitarian […]
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Trump’s Giving Diplomacy a Chance. His Critics Should, Too.
June 14, 2018
Some critics have knocked President Trump for making “too many concessions” to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the historic Singapore Summit – the first-ever meeting between a U.S. president and North Korean leader. Trump’s foreign policy instincts have had me white-knuckled for the past year and a half. But against a backdrop of possible […]
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Bipartisan Letter Calling on Pentagon to Withhold US Support for Disastrous Assault on Yemen’s Major Port
June 13, 2018
WASHINGTON, DC (June 13, 2018) – US Representatives Mark Pocan (D-WI), Justin Amash (R-MI), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Walter Jones (R-NC), and Ted Lieu (D-CA) this week led a bipartisan letter calling on Secretary of Defense James Mattis to stop a disastrous military assault by Saudi Arabia and the United […]
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Ron Paul asks: Who Won at the Summit? Trump or Kim?
June 12, 2018
Yesterday’s meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was history in the making. By all accounts the meeting went well. Trump looks like a peacemaker and Kim looks to have delivered security to his people while continuing the process toward peace with his southern neighbor. Neocons and political opponents of […]
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The Saudi Coalition Bombed a Cholera Treatment Center in Yemen
June 12, 2018
Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Yemen reported that the Saudi coalition bombed one of the cholera treatment centers earlier today: The Yemen War is spiraling out of control. The Saudi/UAE/U.S. coalition bombed a Doctors Without Borders cholera treatment facility earlier today. Let me repeat that – the US helped […]
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The Trump Administration Is Backing the Saudi Coalition Attack on Hodeidah
June 11, 2018
Originally appeared on The American Conservative. The UAE-led attack on the port of Hodeidah in Yemen appears to going ahead, and the U.S. isn’t trying to prevent it and is going to support it: The Trump administration is now reluctantly getting behind the U.A.E.’s military moves, but top US officials are encouraging their Emirati allies […]
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