By Yumna Patel From Mondoweiss | Original Article Israel can now ban critics of the occupation from giving presentations to school children, according to a law passed Monday night by Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. Known as the “Breaking the Silence” law, the bill passed with a majority of 43 votes in favor and 24 against. The […]
These poems are selected from Timothy Tarkelly’s book, The Raucous Shouting of Stripes. AWOL September, you came too slow and brought with you a target. Sleep, you left me and I looked everywhere. I turned barracks dregs into clinical halls and found you. Blood, you boiled and left me breathless. Brothers, you ignored me and […]
By Stan Levin Listen up, son. You are one of today’s pawns on the chessboard, and the recruiter sitting across from you is the chess master. He is not your friend, son. He knows you better than you know yourself. He knows about testosterone, He knows about immaturity, and the naiveté of children such as […]
We Are Not Your Soldiers had a very active year in New York City, touring as many schools as we have done anywhere around the country during the height of the war on Iraq. We did four full weeks of school visits – two in the fall semester and two in the spring semester. A […]
By Spenser Rapone From Truthdig | Original Article Truthdig Editor’s note: On the outside, Spenser Rapone’s West Point graduation uniform looked like all the other cadets’. Underneath his dress uniform, however, was evidence of his political views: a T-shirt bearing Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara’s image, and a cap that read, inside, “Communism will win.” The […]
By Eyal Press From The New York Times | Original Article Even soldiers who fight wars from a safe distance have found themselves traumatized. Could their injuries be moral ones? In the spring of 2006, Christopher Aaron started working 12-hour shifts in a windowless room at the Counterterrorism Airborne Analysis Center in Langley, Va. He […]
By David Swanson From DavidSwanson.org | Original Article “Memorial Day is a time to remember, appreciate, and honor the selfless patriots who gave the ultimate sacrifice in service to freedom. At a time when our country seems so divided, we must not forget that it is because of their service and sacrifice that we live […]
We received the following request from Studentprivacy.org. Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, NY Department of Education, will be holding Town Hall Forums throughout NYS from 5/2-6/15/2018. One topic she will be addressing is Student Privacy Rights. The New York Coalition to Protect Student Privacy advocates for student privacy rights when they take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude […]
by William Schroder From History News Network | Original Article More than forty years after the Vietnam War, death and devastation continue to follow in its wake, and the misery index rises even though the shooting has long stopped. Richard Nixon once stated that no other American war was more “misunderstood, misreported or misremembered.” This may […]
Child at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS practices shooting in the school. Please sign the petition to shut down firing ranges in U.S. high schools! Your message will be sent to your state legislators. The Army taught Florida gunman Nikolas Cruz how to shoot a lethal weapon in his high school cafeteria when he was 14. […]
From Democracy Now | Original Article Fifty years ago, on March 16, 1968, U.S. soldiers attacked the Vietnamese village of My Lai. Even though the soldiers met no resistance, they slaughtered more than 500 Vietnamese women, children and old men over the next four hours, in what became known as the My Lai massacre. After […]
