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 […]
By Tim O’Connor From Newsweek | Original Article The United States has tens of thousands of troops deployed across the Middle East and Afghanistan, many of them in nations near Iran at a time when the two countries were nearing an all-out conflict. President Donald Trump’s decision to kill one of Iran’s most senior figures, […]
From Democracy Now | Original Article The New York Times has revealed a trove of confidential military interviews with the Navy SEALs who accused Chief Edward Gallagher of war crimes. Gallagher met with President Trump over the weekend at Trump’s private resort Mar-a-Lago in Florida, only weeks after Trump overruled his own military leaders and […]
By Stephanie Rugoff and Debra Sweet In the blizzard of outrageous new actions and threats from the current commander in chief, many people heard about “The Afghanistan Papers,” the Washington Post series last week on the U.S. war on Afghanistan. After three years of lawsuits, the Post obtained partial transcripts of interviews with 400 people […]
On Veterans Day, Common Dreams ran the article about We Are Not Your Soldiers reprinted below. We are pleased that the article drew attention to our project including some leads to expanding our work digitally around the country. Also on Veterans Day, the online edition of The New York Times ran the video and short […]
By Andrea Mazzarino From TomDispatch | Original Article On Being a Military Spouse and Writing About Our Post-9/11 Wars There is some incongruity between my role as an editor of a book about the costs of America’s wars and my identity as a military spouse. I’m deeply disturbed at the scale of human suffering caused […]
