Greetings for 2025! We are scheduling visits by our panel of veterans to classes for this Spring semester — in person or via remote technology, in English or Spanish! Contact We Are Not Your Soldiers now to start planning the presentation to your students. Email us at wearenotyoursoldiers@worldcantwait.org, call us at 646-807-3259 or direct message […]
By Sam Mednick and Julia Frankel From AP | Original Article Go to original article to see two videos. JERUSALEM (AP) — Yotam Vilk says the image of Israeli soldiers killing an unarmed Palestinian teenager in the Gaza Strip is seared in his mind. An officer in the armored corps, Vilk said the instructions were to shoot […]
By Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon From LA Progressive | Original Article Fifty years after the official end of U.S. intervention in southeast Asia, “Vietnam vets are still the single largest population of war veterans in prison. Review of Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Jason Higgins (University of Massachusetts […]
From Democracy Now | Original Article We look at what we know about two deadly incidents that unfolded in the United States on New Year’s Day: a truck attack in New Orleans in which a driver killed at least 14 people before being shot dead by police, and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside […]
By Seymour Hersh From Seymour Hersh Substack | Original Article Note: Seymour Hersh reran this piece he wrote and published originally in 2015 due to its relevance today. There is a long ditch in the village of My Lai. On the morning of March 16, 1968, it was crowded with the bodies of the dead—dozens […]
By Yoel Elizur From Haaretz | Original Article As a psychologist dealing with brutality in the military, I see how the Israeli government’s rhetoric of hatred is worsening the problem Concern for the safety of family members serving in the army is part of family life in Israel. Like my contemporaries, I was a worried […]
From CodePink | Original Article WASHINGTON – The morning of Dec. 18, 2024, 17-year veteran and intelligence officer Josephine Guilbeau disrupted the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to call out the billions of dollars Congress sends to fund genocide in Gaza while neglecting veterans at home. Here is what she had to say: “US Congress […]
Brian Teucke speaking with students A thought from Debra Sweet: In the fall of 1969, I crammed into a room with other students to hear an anti-war journalist speak about Vietnam. I had already protested to stop that war, and I “knew” it was bad. But hearing someone who had been in Vietnam covering the […]
We are pleased to re-post this article which contains interviews with two We Are Not Your Soldiers presenters: Lyle Rubin and Brittany Ramos DeBarros. By Rory Fanning From Truthout | Original Article Trump plans to use the military to enact the mass deportation of immigrants. As a veteran, I know orders can be refused. Grab […]
We Are Not Your Soldiers began October 2024 with a visit to a totally on-line class at a college in Queens. Joy Damiani presented to the students, sharing her experiences in the Army in Iraq and responding to their questions. We next went to a private NYC college where Air Force veteran Joe Urgo spoke […]
We Are Not Your Soldiers made our first visit of the 2024/25 academic year to speak to three classes at a college in the NY metropolitan area. Brittany Ramos DeBarros, who had been an officer in Afghanistan, presented to the students and engaged in discussion with them. Watch here. See a student comment we received […]
By Debra Sweet Since 2008, when we began sending anti-war veterans into class rooms, their presentations have largely focused, very importantly, on their experience in wars across the world, from Vietnam to Iraq, when those running this country and its military were united in war on the world. But those “normal imperialist” times are gone. […]
