This week we were still able to visit several New York City schools – from a middle school class doing a study of the war in Afghanistan to an alternative high school to college philosophy classes – where Lyle Rubin, Marine veteran who had been deployed to Afghanistan, engaged in discussion with students. Here are […]
We Are Not Your Soldiers has been visiting Philadelphia schools, speaking in January and February at four Philadelphia high schools and a college class. Will Griffin, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, presented. Three of the most surprising points for the students in the presentations were that the United States is currently involved in […]
From National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth | Original Article WHAT IS IT? The Joint Advertising Market Research Studies (JAMRS) is a series of projects that seek to collect and buy information about the American public with the intent of formulating marketing and advertising strategies to aid in the military recruitment effort. It is in the service of the […]
Introduction by Mike Hastie, Army Medic Viet Nam (2/18/20) I just got through listening to Dennis Stout’ podcast. Without a doubt, this is one of the most powerful eyewitness stories of the Viet Nam War. You hang on every word, because the truth demands it of you. There is no rest for the messenger until […]
The prosecution of drone whistleblower Daniel Hale is currently scheduled to proceed in March. A former veteran of the drone assassination program who became an outspoken activist and critic of it, Hale is being prosecuted under the draconian Espionage Act because he dared shine a light into a very dark corner. Hundreds of journalists, whistleblowers, […]
By Kevin Hitt From The ESports Observer | Original Article The United States Navy has divested from television advertising and will see 97% of its budget allocated to digital. Esports and YouTube will be the two main focuses of its advertising dollars. The reason for the course correction is that the age demographic of online […]
By Nick Martin From The New Republic | Original Article As the United States staggers toward war, it will try to draw troops from the same poor, rural neighborhoods it always has. In my high school in rural North Carolina, a plastic table was set up just off to the side of the atrium where we all congregated […]
By Graig Graziosi From Yahoo News | Original Article A former US drone operator is speaking out against the atrocities he says he was forced to inflict during his time in the armed forces and says the American military as ‘worse than the Nazis’. Brandon Bryant was enlisted in the US Air Force for six […]
By Alan Mcleod From MintPress News | Original Article The United States Air Force has a new recruitment tool: a realistic drone operator video game you can play on its website. Called the Airman Challenge, it features 16 missions to complete, interspersed with facts and recruitment information about how to become a drone operator yourself. In […]
We Are Not Your Soldiers brings veterans to visit classes, share their experiences and enter into dialogue with the students. They tell their own personal stories of how they were affected by their time in the military, bringing another vision of these wars in which so many have been sacrificed by losing their lives and/or […]
by Anthony Swofford From MIT Technology Review | Original Article Technology makes fighting war easier and more palatable—but it dangerously changes the nature of the fight, argues a US Marine veteran. Shortly after I turned 18, the United States Marine Corps trained me to live, think, and operate as one of the most lethal humans […]
