By Stan Levin Listen up, son. You are one of today’s pawns on the chessboard, and the recruiter sitting across from you is the chess master. He is not your friend, son. He knows you better than you know yourself. He knows about testosterone, He knows about immaturity, and the naiveté of children such as […]
We Are Not Your Soldiers had a very active year in New York City, touring as many schools as we have done anywhere around the country during the height of the war on Iraq. We did four full weeks of school visits – two in the fall semester and two in the spring semester. A […]
By Spenser Rapone From Truthdig | Original Article Truthdig Editor’s note: On the outside, Spenser Rapone’s West Point graduation uniform looked like all the other cadets’. Underneath his dress uniform, however, was evidence of his political views: a T-shirt bearing Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara’s image, and a cap that read, inside, “Communism will win.” The […]
By Eyal Press From The New York Times | Original Article Even soldiers who fight wars from a safe distance have found themselves traumatized. Could their injuries be moral ones? In the spring of 2006, Christopher Aaron started working 12-hour shifts in a windowless room at the Counterterrorism Airborne Analysis Center in Langley, Va. He […]
By David Swanson From DavidSwanson.org | Original Article “Memorial Day is a time to remember, appreciate, and honor the selfless patriots who gave the ultimate sacrifice in service to freedom. At a time when our country seems so divided, we must not forget that it is because of their service and sacrifice that we live […]
