We Are Not Your Soldiers brings veterans to visit classes, share their experiences and enter into dialogue with the students. They tell their own personal stories of how they were affected by their time in the military, bringing another vision of these wars in which so many have been sacrificed by losing their lives and/or […]
by Anthony Swofford From MIT Technology Review | Original Article Technology makes fighting war easier and more palatable—but it dangerously changes the nature of the fight, argues a US Marine veteran. Shortly after I turned 18, the United States Marine Corps trained me to live, think, and operate as one of the most lethal humans […]
By Tim O’Connor From Newsweek | Original Article The United States has tens of thousands of troops deployed across the Middle East and Afghanistan, many of them in nations near Iran at a time when the two countries were nearing an all-out conflict. President Donald Trump’s decision to kill one of Iran’s most senior figures, […]
From Democracy Now | Original Article The New York Times has revealed a trove of confidential military interviews with the Navy SEALs who accused Chief Edward Gallagher of war crimes. Gallagher met with President Trump over the weekend at Trump’s private resort Mar-a-Lago in Florida, only weeks after Trump overruled his own military leaders and […]
By Stephanie Rugoff and Debra Sweet In the blizzard of outrageous new actions and threats from the current commander in chief, many people heard about “The Afghanistan Papers,” the Washington Post series last week on the U.S. war on Afghanistan. After three years of lawsuits, the Post obtained partial transcripts of interviews with 400 people […]
On Veterans Day, Common Dreams ran the article about We Are Not Your Soldiers reprinted below. We are pleased that the article drew attention to our project including some leads to expanding our work digitally around the country. Also on Veterans Day, the online edition of The New York Times ran the video and short […]
By Andrea Mazzarino From TomDispatch | Original Article On Being a Military Spouse and Writing About Our Post-9/11 Wars There is some incongruity between my role as an editor of a book about the costs of America’s wars and my identity as a military spouse. I’m deeply disturbed at the scale of human suffering caused […]
By Samuel Osborne From Yahoo News | Original Article Donald Trump has reportedly told aides he wants three convicted or accused war criminals to campaign for him during his bid for reelection in 2020. The US president granted clemency to Clint Lorance and Matthew Golsteyn, and reversed the decision to demote Edward Gallagher on 15 […]
By Matthew Hoh From Common Dreams | Original Article The only way to prevent veterans from killing themselves is to prevent them from going to war. I was very pleased to see the New York Times editorial on November 1, 2019, Suicide Has Been Deadlier than Combat for the Military. As a combat veteran myself […]
By Robert Scheer From Truthdig | Original Article American soldiers born decades apart in the state of New York, Ron Kovic and Maj. Danny Sjursen, are two crucial dissenting voices that have experienced firsthand the futility and brutality of America’s interventionist wars. Kovic, a Marine veteran who was paralyzed in the Vietnam War, has spent […]
By Stephanie Rugoff From Common Dreams | Original Article We Are Not Your Soldiers brings exposure of imperial wars to a generation of youth largely unaware of the crimes being carried out throughout the world in their names. On this Veterans Day, 2019, for the United States, making war is less about amassing human air, […]
By Nick Turse From The Nation | Original Article They called it Castle Black, an obvious homage to the famed, frozen citadel from the HBO series Game of Thrones. In the fantasy world of GoT, it’s the stronghold of the Night’s Watch, the French Foreign Legion–esque guardians of the northern border of the Seven Kingdoms. […]
