Every week a special guest shares an emotional experience that made them question war or value peace. This could be a moment in their life, a piece of art, or a gripping headline. Guests will include veterans, peace activists, and every day people who a want to share their story. Your host is @mdvet4, a Marine combat veteran and purple heart recipient turned antiwar activist. #whyIamAntiwar #peace Follow us on twitter or instagram @antiwarpodcast If you would like to be a guest and share your story please see our contact page antiwarpodcast.com/contact or email us
Climate Crisis
https://stephensemler.substack.com/p/the-us-military-industrial-complex
Bernie sanders sold out to the war party
https://www.openbookreport.com/p/bernie-sanders-sold-out-to-the-war
Slavery Returns to africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S2qtGisT34
https://www.openbookreport.com/p…
Sorry for the long absence. I am getting back in the grove. This is part of a great chat I had with Matthew Hoh, Marine turned State department whistleblower. He and I had a great conversation and more to discuss in the future.
A recurring theme in our discussion was whether young people are able to…
A friend Jake shares and explains the hidden history of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and their long track record of peace and justice activism
Check out the Peace Testimony: https://www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/york-friends-meeting/pages/peace-testimony
Check out the American Friends Service Committe…
Please check out @livingdadjoke
Lets find ways to teach empathy and do good in the world together!
Court appointed special advocates
https://nationalcasagal.org/
and
Team Rubicon:https://teamrubiconusa.org/
Do new enlistees understand the document they swear to uphold and defend? Can they be held to an oath they did not understand?
Article 1 Section 8
Mainers Check out freemainepac.org
Everyone else checkout Harrisonkemp.com and Harrisons podcast Liberty Happy Hour https://www.facebook.com/LibertyHappy…
Tony is a Marine Veteran of Iraq 2006, after got out he put the wars behind him, but one night in 2017 watching the news he had what he called his "red pill moment" after that he saw the military industrial complex in a whole new light. Tony contacted me @antiwarpodcast to share his story.
I got a message from @boogeryooper asking to do a swap cast on his show Anarchy Explained (https://anchor.fm/yooperbooger) As we transitioned to my half of the show I learned that my 4th episode "The Car" is the reason he started to rethink war. I was taken aback and very touched that this podcast h…
I get the honor of talking to Scott Horton about the comedians, family friends, and teacher who made him not only question the wars, but recognize that it is his duty to spread the message.
Scott Horton is the host of Antiwar Radio at KPFK and the Scott Horton show podcast. He has conducted over 5,…
Benefits of peace:
Peace is, indeed, at once the mother and the nurse of all that is good for man. War on a sudden, and at one stroke, overwhelms, extinguishes, abolishes.
whatever is cheerful, whatever is happy and beautiful, and pours a foul torrent of disasters on the life of mortals. Peace shine…
The car was no IED. It was a Father and two sons. They were not combatants; they simply did not recognize that the highway they were driving down had become a combat zone. I never saw inside the car but one child was killed.
The father was shot through the gut, and the living son in the arm.
I can b…
I had just turned 16, and my father had planned for years to take me on a cross-country road trip when I could drive. So we set out on an 8000-mile, 25-day trip with 10 CDs in the car. Three of them were Bob Dylan. Two were the best of and the third was “freewheeling.” Musically, I was familiar with…
Welcome to Why I am antiwar, @antiwarpodcast with your host @mdvet4 This the podcast that shares experiences and stories that lead us to question war or see the value of peace. here is one of those stories
As a child I loved all things military in part because I knew My father is a Vietnam veteran. …