By David Swanson From worldbeyondwar.org | Original Article Bring spray bottles of pink liquid to military recruitment offices and displays. Spray them. Tell potential recruits: Be all that you can be. And this could be you. “Pink mist. That’s what they call it. “When one of your mates hasn’t just bought it, “but goes in […]

By Lyle Jeremy Rubin From aeon.com | Original Article Jacob Bridge is a popular lieutenant in the US Marines who woke up one day with an urgent need to leave the military. Why? First Lieutenant Jacob Bridge is stationed in Hawaii as a logistics officer. He started Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at the University of […]

By David Swanson From davidswanson.org | Original Article U.S. military recruiters are teaching in public school classrooms, making presentations at school career days, coordinating with JROTC units in high schools and middle schools, volunteering as sports coaches and tutors and lunch buddies in high, middle, and elementary schools, showing up in humvees with $9,000 stereos, […]

By Sarah Grey From Truthout | Original Article When he got home from Iraq, Hart Viges began sorting through his boyhood toys, looking for some he could pass on to his new baby nephew. He found a stash of G.I. Joes – his old favorites – and the memories came flooding back. “I thought about […]

Sharleen Leahey performs “Who Killed Joey” with Maire and Amy of Virago at the Coalition for Peace Action rally in Princeton, New Jersey in March 2011 to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Sharleen wrote the song for the veterans and mothers who tell us the truth about war. Words & […]

From Democracy Now Among the issues tackled in the new documentary film “Drone” is the connection between video games and military recruitment. We air a clip from the film and speak to its director, Tonje Hessen Schei, as well as drone war whistleblower Brandon Bryant. “I think gamers should be offended that the military and […]

From Democracy Now Has the U.S. drone war “fueled the feelings of hatred that ignited terrorism and groups like ISIS“? That’s the conclusion of four former Air Force servicemembers who are speaking out together for the first time. They’ve issued a letter to President Obama warning the U.S. drone program is one of the most […]

By Ed Pilkington and Ewen MacAskill From Information Clearinghouse Watch trailer of new documentary here. Four former service members – including three sensor operators – issue plea to rethink current airstrike strategy that has ‘fueled feelings of hatred’ toward US Four former US air force service members, with more than 20 years of experience between […]

By William M. Arkin and Alexa O’Brien From Vice News An information and intelligence shift has emerged in America’s national security state over the last two decades, and that change has been reflected in the country’s educational institutions as they have become increasingly tied to the military, intelligence, and law enforcement worlds. This is why VICE […]