For most benefits administered by VA, including health care, a bad paper discharge does not render a veteran categorically ineligible.
Current Events
Patrick Leahy’s full-circle moment caps a half-century political career
In 1974, Patrick Leahy entered the Montpelier Statehouse as a 33-year-old insurgent with the seemingly impossible dream.
Here Come the 1968 Mistakes Again
Every four years since 1968, the same cautionary tale is retold: If the Vietnam War protesters had been well-behaved…
Veteran Slimed By Rhinos In Portland; Non-Violent Meets Non-Lethal
Mike Hastie was specifically speaking his truth about the Vietnam War, a war he participated in before these up-armored feds were even born.
Peace & Planet News Issue #3, Black Lives special edition, now online
The entire 24-page issue of PPN #3 is now available online. Print, view, and share the PDF!
Veterans putting their bodies on the line for Black lives and democracy
The Trump administration is using fascist tactics to threaten US civil rights in pursuit of a far-right political agenda. Veterans are standing up.
Vietnam Vet Sprayed In The Face By Trump’s Federal Agents In Portland
The scene, captured on video by journalist Andrew Kimmel, showed a federal agent holding the canister just inches from Mike Hastie’s face, then shoving him out of the way.
Vietnam vet Mike Hastie stares down feds after being pepper-sprayed
The veteran can be seen in pain and could hardly open his eyes after a sudden attack by a federal agent with what appeared to be some sort of a chemical spray.
Imperial Wars Always Come Home
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.
Veterans Go to Washington – So What?
What, then, has been the actual influence of the veterans now in Congress on this country’s war policy?
Videos of the Waging Peace in Vietnam conference, Washington DC
Panel discussions from the George Washington University conference hosted in conjunction with the traveling exhibit.
House Armed Services Committee, in Middle of Pandemic, Approves Huge Military Budget
They authorized this kind of a budget in the midst of a global pandemic as tens of millions of newly unemployed Americans struggle even to pay their rent.
The War on Logic: Contradictions and Absurdities in the House’s Military Spending Bill
There is simply no logic to it—other than the inexorable logic of war profiteering and global control.
Undercover Patriots: Trump, Tulsa, and the Rise of Military Dissent
It was June 20th and we antiwar vets had traveled all the way to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the midst of a pandemic to protest President Trump’s latest folly.