This week, Lyle Rubin, a former Marine who was sent to Afghanistan, will visit high schools and college classes in New York City as part of World Can’t Wait’s  We Are Not Your Soldiers program.  In this small but important way, we are intervening with students who are in danger of signing up with the […]

By Rory Fanning From TomDispatch | Original Article A Veteran and Parent Can’t Stop Thinking About the War He Fought I’m here in Chicago, 7,000 miles and 15 years away from Jalalabad, a desolate town in southwestern Afghanistan. Yet sometimes it seems to me as if it were yesterday, or even tomorrow, and anything but […]

By Ryan Harvey From The Nation | Original Article President Donald Trump has deployed 5,600 active-duty US troops to the border with Mexico as part of the mission formerly known as Operation Faithful Patriot. According to leaked documents received by The Nation, the Army will provide Customs and Border Protection officers with anti-riot weapons and […]

From Courage to Resist | Original Article Don’t turn them away The migrants in the Central American caravan are not our enemies Open letter to active duty soldiers Your Commander-in-chief is lying to you. You should refuse his orders to deploy to the southern U.S. border should you be called to do so. Despite what […]

MSNBC television host Rachel Maddow moderates a panel at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in October 2017. (Steven Senne/AP) Interview by Robert Scheer From Truthdig | Original Article Earlier this month, the United States celebrated a dubious anniversary. On Oct. 7, 2001, President George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan, marking the beginning of Operation […]

We believe that all military personnel have a moral and legal obligation to refuse to comply with any order that involves collaboration with these camps. By Courage to Resist Actual concentration camps are in the process of development at military bases across the southern United States. This isn’t the first time in US history that […]