Jonny Lewis is the writer and director of Antiwar Comedy Shorts, where he approaches the serious subject of war using comedy to spread an antiwar message.

He's made 8 short comedy films, nominated for and winner of many awards, and continues to make antiwar shorts to question and expose US foreign policy and the culture of militarism.

Antiwar Comedy Shorts:

www.antiwarcomedyshorts.com/

Discussion with Matthew Hoh, a former USMC captain and US state department official who resigned in protest of the Afghanistan War in an attempt to prevent Obama's surge in 2009, the same year I was deployed to Afghanistan. Matt recently wrote an article debunking the myths about the war and why it's time for peace in Afghanistan.

Matthew Hoh is a member of the advisory boards of Expose Facts, Veterans For Peace and World Beyond War. In 2009 he resigned his position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the Afghan War by the Obama Administration. He previously had been in Iraq with a State Department team and with the U.S. Marines. He is a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy. Matt's article: https://bit.ly/2TpqtLl

Black Alliance for Peace Coordinating Committee member Netfa Freeman discusses the connection between the U.S. occupation of Africa since 2008, when US AFRICOM was established, and the increased militarization of Black communities in the United States.

Learn more: https://blackallianceforpeace.com/usoutofafrica/

Dr. Annmaria Shimabuku is professor of East Asian Studies at New York University. We discuss U.S. militarism and Japanese capitalism on the island of Okinawa. The island holds 32 US military bases where nearly 20 percent of the island is controlled by the Pentagon. At the same time, Okinawa suffers from a history of Japanese racism, capitalism, and exploitation.

Dr. Shimabuku's book, "Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life": https://amzn.to/2PBb8RO