Introduction by Nick Turse From TomDispatch | Original Article “Training.” It sounds so innocuous. It also sounds like something expected of a military. All professional soldiers undergo some sort of basic training. Think: calisthenics, negotiating obstacle courses, and marksmanship. Soldiers require instruction, otherwise they’re little more than rabble. Sometimes soldiers from one country even train […]
Uniformed soldiers and police have blocked off the streets. People are fleeing the city center, and gunfire sounds. The now-infamous coup is underway. While jets come screeching down and bombs drop, rebel soldiers take control of what remains of the presidential palace. The coup has succeeded. The president is dead. A general has taken power […]
By Rebecca Gordon From TomDispatch| Original Article Where Will the National Guard Be Sent in 2019? A young friend is seriously considering joining her state’s National Guard. She’s a world-class athlete, but also a working-class woman from a rural background competing in a rich person’s sport. Between seasons, she works for a local farm and […]
From Courage to Resist | Original Article Expansion of mandatory military draft registration to women likely Interfaith church offers free registry for all opposed to war and concerned about military conscription The Objector Registry is available at objector.church/register The first ever Objector Registry offers a declaration of conscience for anyone to assert their moral opposition […]
The Department of Defense’s military aptitude test (ASVAB) is given to thousands of 10th, 11th & 12th grade public school students in NY State. Their test scores, personal data including social security number, contact information, and academic skills are gleaned from the test and stored on a Department of Defense database for future release to […]
From The Peace Report Will Griffin of The Peace Report interviews Mike Hastie, a Vietnam Veteran turned antiwar activist and member of Veterans For Peace. He gathered questions on social media and asked them to Mike. The following is a timeline of questions for Video I: 1:50 Tell us about yourself 5:15 Since your father […]
Beginning on Monday November 26, we had another very full and meaningful week of We Are Not Your Soldiers visits to NYC high schools and colleges – this time with Marine veteran Lyle Rubin who had been stationed in Afghanistan. Lyle told the story of an important part of his life – how he came […]
By Lyle Jeremy Rubin From n + 1 Magazine | Original Article My first and only war tour took place in Afghanistan in 2010. I was a marine lieutenant then, a signals intelligence officer tasked with leading a platoon-size element of eighty to ninety men, spread across an area of operations the size of my […]
Nothing we could write could convey more effectively what it means for students vulnerable to joining the U.S. military to hear from veterans conscious of how they could lose their humanity by enlisting. And that’s only half of the story. Most of the students whose classes we visit, whether in high school or college and […]
This week, Lyle Rubin, a former Marine who was sent to Afghanistan, will visit high schools and college classes in New York City as part of World Can’t Wait’s We Are Not Your Soldiers program. In this small but important way, we are intervening with students who are in danger of signing up with the […]
By Rory Fanning From TomDispatch | Original Article A Veteran and Parent Can’t Stop Thinking About the War He Fought I’m here in Chicago, 7,000 miles and 15 years away from Jalalabad, a desolate town in southwestern Afghanistan. Yet sometimes it seems to me as if it were yesterday, or even tomorrow, and anything but […]
