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 […]
By Mike Baker, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Ilana Marcus From The New York Times | Original Article DETROIT — On her first day of high school, Andreya Thomas looked over her schedule and found that she was enrolled in a class with an unfamiliar name: J.R.O.T.C. She and other freshmen at Pershing High School in Detroit soon […]
By Pat Elder From MilitaryPoisons.org | Original Article Who knew? Who cares? Army report says eight hangars had suppression systems like these. There was an accidental discharge of foam from the fire suppression system in one hangar which resulted in more than five feet of foam covering the floor of the hangar. In early November, […]
By Alex Skopic From Current Affairs | Original Article Federal legislation enforces the militarization of schools, giving recruiters easy access to teenagers vulnerable to persuasion. An outlier among other nations for this method of recruitment, the U.S. should end this harmful practice. Today’s conservatives, to hear them tell it, are deeply concerned with the safety […]
By Kelly Denton-Borhaug From TomDispatch | Original Article Dear Veterans, I’m a civilian who, like many Americans, has strong ties to the U.S. Armed Forces. I never considered enlisting, but my father, uncles, cousins, and nephews did. As a child I baked cookies to send with letters to my cousin Steven who was serving in […]
