A shocking new report by the Pentagon has found that 70 sexual assaults may be taking place within the U.S. military every day. The report estimates there were 26,000 sex crimes committed in 2012, a jump of 37 percent since 2010. Most of the incidents were never reported. The findings were released two days after [...]

Go check out this page for a new movie about a recent vet.  The film is being released today for digital download and is on demand.  Visit the page and the website! Least Among Saints Writer, director and actor Martin Papazian’s debut film LEAST AMONG SAINTS movingly illustrates a man’s hard-fought road towards reconciling with [...]

                                    After moving to Canada rather than return to Iraq in 2006, Kimberly Rivera was deported back to the US in September 2012. Her lawyer stated she was singled out for this punishment, even though she’s a pregnant mother of four, to “send a message” to other war resisters, precisely because she spoke out against [...]

This is from a 1960′s French artist, Boris Vian, written after World War II and became popular for French resistors against the war in Algeria.  It is called “Le Déserteur“.  

By Roy Eidelson, Marc Pilisuk and Stephen Soldz | From Eidelson Consulting Why is the world’s largest organization of psychologists so aggressively promoting a new, massive, and untested military program? The APA’s enthusiasm for mandatory “resilience training” for all US soldiers is troubling on many counts. The January 2011 issue of the American Psychologist, the [...]

Robynn Murray, female vet profiled in the film Poster Girl The news that the U.S. military plans to officially allow women to serve in many combat positions, pending some more review, is infuriating, but not unexpected. When “don’t ask, don’t tell” was suspended so that LGBT people were to be tolerated in the military, and not [...]

‘Did we just kill a kid?’: The moment drone operator who assassinated Afghans with the push of a button on a computer in the U.S. realized he had vaporized a child… and could not go on. By Helen Pow | From MailOnline A former U.S. drone operator has opened up about the toll of killing [...]

Dreams in Infrared: The Woes of an American Drone Pilot By Nicola Abé from Spiegel Online International Gilles Mingasson/ DER SPIEGEL For more photos, click here. A soldier sets out to graduate at the top of his class. He succeeds, and he becomes a drone pilot working with a special unit of the United States [...]

From ArmyTimes | Original Article As many as 12 active-duty soldiers committed suicide in November, pushing the Army above last year’s record number of suicides with one month left to go in the year, officials said today. With the deaths in November, of which one has been confirmed as suicide, the Army has now had [...]

Click here to watch John Lennon’s moving video, reminding us that we do have the capacity to end these wars. Happy holidays from all of us at We Are Not Your Soldiers and World Can’t Wait.

Today I received a post from a man who was my best friend from second grade through high school about how one of his army buddies had died in Afghanistan . I guess he and I have grown apart this last year but it makes me sad to hear another life has been lost for [...]

On Afghan War 11th Anniversary, Vets Confront Mental Health Crisis, Soldier Suicides and Violence Watch Democracy Now! video here.     On the 11th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, we take a look at the invisible wounds of war here at home. Since the war began on Oct. 7, 2001, less than a [...]