Connections to Today

Biden Is the Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War as Proud History

When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi last week, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths.

July 30, 2022

Veterans groups, family members, longtime advocate Jon Stewart and others gathered outside the Capitol after the vote to voice their outrage.

January 24, 2022

Too few Americans are willing to confront the disaster that has befallen the U.S. as a consequence of our serial misuse of military power.

October 11, 2020

Okinawa served as the main US launchpad for the war in southeast Asia – and the island is still contaminated today from that usage.

September 27, 2020

Donald Trump and Joe Biden were athletes who got deferments and dubious medical-based exemptions to participating in mass slaughter.

August 23, 2020

Mike Hastie was specifically speaking his truth about the Vietnam War, a war he participated in before these up-armored feds were even born.

August 23, 2020

The entire 24-page issue of PPN #3 is now available online. Print, view, and share the PDF!

July 26, 2020

Towton 16’s crushed skull, and the thousands of men who died with him that day, are a good reminder that imperial wars never stay overseas.

July 13, 2020

What, then, has been the actual influence of the veterans now in Congress on this country’s war policy?

July 13, 2020

Panel discussions from the George Washington University conference hosted in conjunction with the traveling exhibit.

July 10, 2020

The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars.

June 9, 2020

If we want other people to show up for us, we have to stand in solidarity with them. Racial justice should not be thought of with a zero-sum mindset.

May 30, 2020

As the United States reckons with its decline, it should understand where its power came from in the first place.

May 29, 2020

The entire 24-page issue of PPN is now available online. Print, view, and share the PDF of Issue #2.

May 11, 2020

Not only did we waste $6.4 trillion, we continue to wast trillions more on war industries that don’t actually do us...