Posts in "Peace"

By Anthony Ardizzone at 1:38PM

Aug 10, 2011

Prayer for War and Peace

Thanks to an anonymous source, I was led to this great video taking place in 1900. It's a short film of Mark Twain's short story, "The War Prayer."

The text of the story may be read here. It's gist is that as soldiers prepare to go to war they attend a church service in which the minister prays a blessing over them, asking God for their victory, safety, and glory. A stranger appears in the church, claiming to be a messenger of God who is here to pray the other, unspoken half of the prayer: for the death, pain, and destruction of the lives and livelihoods of the soldiers' enemies -- a request, of course, sent to a God of love.

This could be a great activism tool for anyone wishing to reach a Christian audience with the antiwar message of liberty.

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By Andrew Sharp at 4:08PM

Jan 17, 2011

Wars are Poor Chisels for Carving out Peaceful Tomorrows

MLK was antiwar, no matter what the DoD says.

MLK

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By Thomas Kubica at 2:49PM

Jul 15, 2010

Bridges of Peace

A few snapshots of the prosperity brought upon by free-markets across the globe!

Courtesy of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Learn more here.

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By Matt Cockerill at 7:38AM

May 3, 2010

Cockerill Interviews David Henderson

David Henderson, economics professor at the Naval Postgraduate School of Monterey California, research scholar the Hoover Institute, and columnist for antiwar.com and LewRockwell.com, was kind enough to do an interview with me recently.

David discussed the liberty-movement leaders young people ought to emulate, the problems he sees with the Austrian Theory of the business cycle, and the personal responsibility of the peacenik and soldier in fighting against, and not fighting in, an unjust war. I believe this is a very important interview for young people, in terms of broadening their mind and seriously challenging the status quo. As such, I didn't cut much of the interview and I ask you, the reader, to find a time to listen to it in full.

If you absolutely can't listen to the whole interview, then fast-forward to about 2:21 minutes into Part 4. Here, I ask David about the issues of peace and personal responsibility, and he gives what I consider to be a very thorough and important response.

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

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By Aaron Lieberman at 9:38AM

May 1, 2010

The Best Thing To Come Out Our Current Wars in the Middle East

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By Matt Cockerill at 12:06PM

Apr 5, 2010

"Brown People Have Natural Rights Too": An Interview With Adam Kokesh

This past weekend, I was lucky enough to be able to interview Adam Kokesh, the pro-peace Iraq War Vet and liberty Republican running for Congress in New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District (Note: YAL does not support or oppose any candidate for office).

Adam and I discussed his personal experience in Iraq, his general path towards the philosophy of peace and liberty, the problems with the pro-war, statist political establishment, the general criminality and violence of the modern US state, and the political landscape of his district, as well as the overall country, leading up to the 2010 Congressional Elections.

The mp3 of the interview is currently too big to attach to this post, but for those of you that won't listen to this sort of thing without being able to download and put it in your Ipod, you can either wait 24 hours for me to fix this problem, or download the clips individually on YouTube.

Ron Paul's Interest Groups

Jared, if Ron Paul were a Nascar Driver, only three pictures would be on his jumpsuit. As far as I can tell, they're the only three things he's beholden to:

Peace

The Constitution

The American People

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By Matt Cockerill at 10:00PM

Mar 13, 2010

"Blessed be the Warmakers"?

If someone is a devout Christian, or merely a libertarian believer in natural rights and individual responsibility, he can't deny the logic of Laurence Vance's arguments on military service. Vance's belief that enlisting is morally wrong is uncomfortable, but the unadulterated truth rarely is easy to swallow. Still, it is my conviction that pure truth, bereft of disclaimers and sugar-coating, is the only way to change minds. This is especially important when talking to fellow young people considering military service. If members of YAL aren't going to speak the truth, no other group of young people will.

If you know of anyone who is thinking about enlisting, I'd recommend showing he or she this great and highly relevant interview of Vance by Lew Rockwell:

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By Matt Cockerill at 8:09PM

Mar 10, 2010

The Congressional Peace Coalition

15 Democrats and 3 Republicans have heroically stood up to their party leaders on the illegal and immoral Afghanistan War, supporting Dennis Kucinich's withdrawal proposal. The cosponsors are:

John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI); Ron Paul (R-TX); José Serrano (D-NY); Bob Filner (D-CA); Lynn Woolsey (D-CA); Walter Jones, Jr. (R-NC); Danny Davis (D-IL); Barbara Lee (D-CA); Michael Capuano (D-MA); Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ); Tammy Baldwin (D-WI); Timothy Johnson (R-IL); Yvette Clarke (D-NY); Eric Massa (D-NY); Alan Grayson (D-FL); and Chellie Pingree (D-ME).

We will likely have many future disagreements with many of the folks on this list, especially the progressives. But we ought to honor them for standing up on this most important of issues. Hopefully, this is a sign of things to come. Recall that opposition to the Vietnam War was tepid at its onset, note that 18 representatives is a small but not negligible amount, and believe that pro-peace organizations like YAL can continue to make a difference.

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