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 […]