Miles Megaciph, one of the speakers going to visit high schools and colleges through our We Are Not Your Soldiers project, returned to Okinawa where he had been stationed when in the military, with a Veterans for Peace delegation supporting the struggles of the people of Okinawa to remove US military bases from their land. […]
By Lyle Jeremy Rubin From Peace in Our Times | Original Article In an age of endless war and social turmoil, the veteran has become a fetish. Americans are desperate to believe the United States is still righteous and powerful, even though most of us know otherwise. Much like the flag we drape ourselves in, […]
By Yaniv Kubovich From Haaretz | Original Article ‘The army is carrying out the government’s racist policy that violates basic human rights,’ 63 teens write to Netanyahu and Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot A group of 63 teens have publicly declared they will refuse to be drafted into the Israel army, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on […]
Lyle Rubin, veteran, U.S. Marines This fall, WeAreNotYourSoldiers brought veterans to speak to students at as many schools as we visited during the height of the Iraq war. In October and November 2017, the We Are Not Your Soldiers project visited schools in New York City. Over two weeks, we spoke to students in […]
By Marjorie Cohn From Truthout | Original Article On November 19, Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of the US Strategic Command, declared he would refuse to follow an illegal presidential order to launch a nuclear attack. “If you execute an unlawful order, you will go to jail,” the general explained at the Halifax International […]
https://youtu.be/Vm3JA9GOYf0 Over the course of the last century, the US has silently encircled the world with a web of military bases unlike any other in history. No continent is spared. They have shaped the lives of millions, yet remain a mystery to most. Featuring Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky. Standing Army explores historical displacement of […]
This TV spot is the latest in a series of commercials created by Knowdrones.com in collaboration with Cres Vellucci, of Veterans for Peace, Chapter 87. The commercials are being broadcast in prime and near prime time on MSNBC, CNN, FOX and other cable channels in communities hosting U.S. drone bases in an effort to appeal […]
From The Conversation | Original Article Every Thanksgiving weekend for the past 17 years, Arapaho and Cheyenne youth lead a 180-mile relay from the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site to Denver. The annual Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run opens at the site of the Sand Creek Massacre near Eads, Colorado, with a sunrise […]
We Are Not Your Soldiers, a project of World Can’t Wait, is starting its eleventh year of bringing recent veterans of U.S. wars to speak in high schools and colleges. With the fascist Trump/Pence regime in power, the need to stop U.S. wars for empire against peoples around the world is more urgent than ever. […]
Cadets attend a five-day summer camp that “introduces the cadets to a military lifestyle and environment.” (Photo: Virginia Guard Public Affairs) By Pat Elder From Truthout/BuzzFlash | Original Article Ominous developments in three states this summer — Oregon, Texas, New Jersey, and one city — Chicago, provide a glimpse into the Pentagon’s new playbook […]
By Tim Ryan From Courthouse News Service | Original Article A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday dismissed a massive collection of cases brought against a government contractor by veterans and their family members who say the military’s use of open burn pits at bases during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan left them with […]
