Anti War Movement

A Memorial Day Remembrance of Peace Activist Soldiers

Doug Bradley | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Memorial Day, Peace, Vietnam War, Anti-War, Vietnam Veterans, Conscientious Objectors, Anti-War Movement, Veterans for Peace, Peace Activists, Politics News
Doug Bradley

On Memorial Day, I remember some of the most ardent and intense peace enthusiasts I've ever known: U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.

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When the World Outlawed War: David Swanson's New Book

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 03.13.2012

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Bruce E. Levine

If any one piece of American history can re-energize the American people to again push their politicians, David Swanson's meticulously documented When the World Outlawed War can do it.

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Grandma, Did You Occupy Wall Street?

Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D. | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street, Wall Street Protests, Anti War Protesters, Civil Disobedience, Sit Ins, Sit in Protests, Anti War Movement, Politics News
Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D.

In my youth we used the word "sit-in," instead of "Occupy," but the movements are essentially the same kind of phenomenon, both symbolic forms of resistance to an oppressive social or economic status quo.

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Saki Knafo

Return To Levittown

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 10.13.2011

Read More: Baby Boomers, Demonstrations, Levittown, The '70s, Anti-War Movement, Revolution, Berkeley, Occupy Wall Street, Protests, Steve Bergsman, Vietnam, Summer of Love, The '60s, Fifty News

Last Wednesday, as thousands of protesters gathered in financial districts around the country shouting slogans like "Get money out of politics" and "T...

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Opposing the Wars at Occupy Wall Street

Eamon Murphy | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Anti-War Movement, Afghanistan, Occupy Wall Street, Anti-War Protestors, Zuccotti Park, Iraq, #Occupywallstreet, Afghanistan War, Anti-War, Politics News
Eamon Murphy

For some demonstrators, the name of the Occupy Wall Street protest is especially ironic: those whose primary concerns are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Minneapolis Message to Obama Was Clear: Bring the War $$ Home

Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: American Legion National Convention, Anti-War Movement, Beth El Synagogue, President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Minneapolis, Come-Home-America, Come Home America, Barack Obama, American Legion, Anti-War, Politics News
Coleen Rowley

Most of the mainstream media did not do a very good job reporting on Obama's August 30 speech in Minneapolis nor on the protest outside the National Convention of the American Legion to whom he spoke.

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Days of Decision on Ending the Wars

Robert Naiman | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Congress, National Defense Authorization Act, Afghanistan War, End Iraq War, End Afghanistan War, Anti War Movement, Politics News
Robert Naiman

The American peace movement is calling on you -- you -- to call your representatives in Congress now to urge votes against the wars.

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Bob Dylan's Asia Tour: Has Freedom Lost Its Voice?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: The Sixties, Anti-War Movement, Human Rights Watch, Aarp, Vietnam, Cameron Crowe, Bob Dylan, Asia, China, Nat Hentoff, Entertainment News
John W. Whitehead

The news that Bob Dylan would embark on a concert tour of Asia had many waiting to see what, if anything, he would say to audiences long oppressed by their governments. So far, the so-called voice of freedom has remained mute.

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Jason Linkins

Scarborough Hits Liberals For Libya Hypocrisy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Libya, Joe Scarborough, Anti-War Movement, Code Pink, Barack Obama, Anti-War, Politics News

If you want to level a charge of hypocrisy against Democratic Party lawmakers, knock yourself out. But leave the rest of the "liberal" movement out of it, especially if you can't actually make the case.

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Despite Harassment, Peace Activists Vow to Continue Work

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, Foia, Anti-War Movement, Activism, Grand Jury, Solidarity, Memphis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Fbi, Surveillance, Peace, Fbi-Infiltration, Harassment, Civil Rights, Politics News
Randall Amster

On January 25, 2011, people gathered in cities across America to demonstrate against the ongoing harassment of peace organizations and individual acti...

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Where Has the Antiwar Movement Gone?

Ted Balaker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Anti-War Movement, War, Anti-War Protestors, Barack Obama, Anti-War, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Ted Balaker

True conservatives recognize that, whether it's public education or national defense, more spending doesn't guarantee better results. Maybe it is time for the antiwar left and Tea Party to team up in support of defense cuts and ending the wars.

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Whither the Tea Party

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party Movement, Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Ross Perot, Anti-War Movement, Fox Television, Anti-War Left, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

The political and demographic momentum is not on the side of the Tea Party movement, but of those who see a diverse, multi-cultural America not with trepidation or fear, but as inevitable and positive.

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Peace Movement AWOL on Aggression

Don Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don Kraus

We are blessed with an opportunity to work for peace and justice. Imagine a future where cries of "end the war" can be legitimately replaced by silence; or at the very least, shouts of "jail the bum."

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Reflections on an Anniversary

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Politics, War on Terror, Anti-War Movement, Military Industrial Complex, Afghanistan, President Obama, Peace, Republicans, Politics News
Robert Koehler

The other superpower, the citizens of a world in constant transformation, ever striving to build a more just and far-reaching peace, is alive, radiant, and quietly creating the future with countless initiatives to calm the heart of violence.

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Battling the Bipartisan Consensus for War

Doug Bandow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liberal Hawks, Paleo-Conservatives, Empire, Anti-War Movement, Intervention, War, Neoconservatives, Military-Spending, Peace, Libertarians, Politics News
Doug Bandow

Peace should be America's natural condition. Unfortunately, it will not be so as long as today's unnatural alliance of liberal and neoconservative hawks runs U.S. foreign policy.

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Thank You for Joining the Peace Movement, Mayor Daley!

Andy Thayer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peace Movement, Anti-War Movement, Activism, Chicago, Mayor Daley, Andy Thayer, Richard M. Daley, Activist, Peace, Anti-War, Chicago News
Andy Thayer

Dear Mayor Daley, After nearly 7 years of war in Iraq and over 8 in Afghanistan, we heartily thank you for joining the peace movement now that your son is facing another deployment.

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Afghanistan Is the War Obama Always Wanted

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Afghan War Strategy, Anti-War Movement, Bush, Iraq War, President Barack Obama, Barack Obama and Afghanistan, Taliban Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Troop Escalation, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Only the most hopelessly naïve, star struck or a true believer could have ever thought that President Obama would not dump massive numbers of fresh troops into Afghanistan.

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Is Obama Bullshi*tting About 18 Month Afghan Withdrawal to Appease War Critics?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

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Miles Mogulescu

Those of us who worked to elect Obama owe those young cadets something better than the continuation of the George Bush long-war strategy that Obama is offering them.

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Change the World? Give a Kid a Book

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Johnny Got a Gun, The Beatles, 1968 Democratic National Convention, James Joyce, The Sisters, The Dubliners, Martin Luther King, Anti-War Movement, 1968, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Bobby Kennedy, John Wayne, Books, Healthy Living News
Kenneth C. Davis

She was the town's meter maid -- a plus-sized meter maid, and not "the most comely of maidens." One day after choir, she handed me a book, saying simply: "I think you will like this."

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Pitchforks, Torches and Tivos (A Conniption Over Harsh Words About A Captive U.S. Soldier)

David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Quigg

However bizarre, however stupefyingly premature the Fox pundit's words are, they are something other than what they have become in the re-telling.

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Rahm Emanuel's Think Tankers Enforce 'Message Discipline' Among 'Liberals'

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Common Purpose Project, John-Stauber, David Brock, Politico, MoveOn.Org, Afghan War, Tom Matzzie, Iraq Occupation, Dick Gephardt, Center for American Progress, Ben Smith, Obama White House, Anti-War Movement, Rahm Emanuel, Center for Media and Democracy, Erik Smith, Miti Sathe, Jane Hamsher, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

Independent journalists have tried to shine a spotlight on how groups like the Center for American Progress and MoveOn are now supporting the continuation of wars because their guy is now commander-in-chief.

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A Peace Movement Win

Tom Hayden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Anti-War Movement, Marines, Bush Administration, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama, War, Harry Reid, Peace, North Carolina, Iraq Withdrawal, World News
Tom Hayden

This is a clear victory for those in the peace movement who supported Obama as the first anti-war candidate with a chance to become president.

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Death of an American Hero

Bob Ostertag | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, US Military, Conscientious Objector, Military, Anti-War Movement, Vietnam War, Vietnam, Iraq, Anti-War, Tom Bernard, Politics News
Bob Ostertag

Tom Bernard was one of the WORMS (We Openly Resist Military Stupidity), one of the many thousands of American servicemen and women who actively opposed the Vietnam war.

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Memo to President-Elect Obama

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peace Economy, Oil Dependence, Military Economy, Anti-War Movement, Economy, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

You have been elected by the first anti-war constituency since 1952, when Eisenhower was elected after promising to end the Korean War. But ending a w...

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Extremity Causes Backlash

John Bruhns | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Democratic Primary, House Races, Anti-War Movement, Neoconservative Movement, George W. Bush, Far Left, Senate Races, Conservative Ideology, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Politics News
John Bruhns

Extreme political groups (on both sides) will fade away into obscurity. They are socially destructive, politically irrelevant, and a speed bump to progress.

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