By W.D. Ehrhart From LA Progressive | Original Article Daniel Ellsberg, who risked life in prison to make those documents public, became a hero of mine, a man whose courage and decency have inspired me ever since. I enlisted in the US Marines when I was 17 years old. When the Marine Corps sent me […]
From Refuser Solidarity Network | Original Article My name is Shimri Zameret and I am RSN’s board chairman. These are crucial times in Israel/Palestine and the Israeli refuser movement needs your help as thousands of soldiers have announced their refusal to serve in the Israeli army over the last two weeks. During the Second Intifada, […]
From Refuser Solidarity Network | Original Article In the past few days, hundreds (!!) of Israeli soldiers have expressed their refusal to serve in the army under the new ultra-nationalist and far-right government unless its anti-democratic policies are stopped. Press reported that almost every army unit, including the “elite” commando unit and the air force, […]
By Andrea Mazzarino From TomDispatch | Original Article During a Veterans Day celebration in my small Maryland community, a teacher clicked through a slideshow of smiling men and women in military uniforms. “Girls and boys, can anyone tell me what courage is?” she asked the crowd, mostly children from local elementary schools, including my two […]
By Lolita C. Baldor From AP | Original Article WASHINGTON (AP) — While some Republicans blame the COVID-19 vaccine or “wokeness” for the Army’s recruiting woes, the military service says the bigger hurdles are more traditional ones: Young people don’t want to die or get injured, deal with the stress of Army life and put […]
By Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon From Jacobin | Original Article Several new memoirs from disillusioned military veterans reflect on the horrors of war. They’re essential tools for challenging US empire. Review of Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War, by Erik Edstrom (Bloomsbury, 2020); Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine’s Unbecoming, […]
We received the following notice from Joy Damiani: New interviews on both East and West Coast radio shows are now live! On WABC, Frank Morano gave me a chance to tell his New York listeners what I thought about Veterans Day and the U.S. military, and on the Bay Area’s KPFA, Franklin Sterling dedicated a full […]
As the spring semester has started in high schools and colleges around the country, we look forward to visiting your class and engaging in deep discussion with students. Some schools function on quarters and we’re ready to plan with you for this quarter or next quarter. From time to time we do speak with middle […]
By Peter Maass From The Intercept | Original Article Lyle Jeremy Rubin’s book on Afghanistan wrestles with how to write about war without encouraging readers to follow his footsteps into battle. War is hell, we hear that all the time. If the cliché is true, another one is too: Depictions of war’s brutality can entice people to seek […]
By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Mike Baker From The New York Times | Original Article CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Beneath the fluorescent lights of a high school gym, dozens of teenagers took turns firing air rifles at a series of bull’s-eye targets, part of a marksmanship competition that drew students from schools all along the Florida […]
John BurnsOne of the most telling quotes I remember being told when I first joined was “You get to travel to distant and exotic places, meet interesting and exciting people, and then kill them.” It goes without saying this shouldn’t be something we aspire to. Since I have been alive, we have never not been […]
The world still cannot wait for the United States to cease being the biggest danger to world peace. Please support the message from people living in this country that humanity and the planet come first with your year-end donation to World Can’t Wait. Dangerous events in 2022 – the proxy war between the U.S./NATO and […]
