By Debra Sweet On Memorial Day in Okinawa, June 23, I’ve been asked to speak in NYC at an event marking the terrible 1945 battle between the U.S. military and Japan at the end of WW II (in front of NY Public Library, 42nd St. & 5th Ave., 1:30-2:30 pm). There were hundreds of thousands […]
By Debra Sweet We’ve been following the difficulties of the US military in reaching recruitment goals, without sympathy. Those problems are not something to passively applaud, but to actively foster and learn from. The comments by Christine Wormuth, the Secretary of the Army, in a June 11 NPR interview on this “serious situation,” are outrageous. […]
By Lyle Jeremy Rubin From The Forum | Original Article Jordan Neely’s killer and the racist violence at the heart of the American imperial project The man who spent minutes choking Jordan Neely to death on a New York City subway was a United States marine. He enlisted as a private in 2017 and was […]
By Oren Ziv From +972 Magazine | Original Article Left-wing high schoolers describe how the anti-government protests have provided a window for the mainstreaming of views long deemed illegitimate. On April 1, in the midst of one of the weekly mass demonstrations in Tel Aviv against the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul plans, a group of […]
This important full-page letter was published as an advertisement in the print edition of The New York Times on Tuesday May 16, 2023 and is signed primarily by high-ranking U.S. military veterans. It opens by saying, “The Russia-Ukraine War has been an unmitigated disaster. Hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded. Millions have been […]
Lyle Rubin, a Marines veteran who was stationed in Afghanistan and is one of the We Are Not Your Soldiers presenters, was a panelist in this conversation sponsored by Scholars Strategy Network and Brooklyn for Peace about U.S. imperialism and the recruitment of immigrants into the U.S. military. Watch the video here.
A very interesting interview on Vietnamese TV (with English translation for everything said in Vietnamese) with Ron Carver on the history of the opposition to the U.S. war on Vietnam within the U.S. military. The recent exhibition in a Vietnamese museum on the period of the war and opposition within the U.S. military, curated by […]
Joe Urgo and Will Griffin April took We Are Not Your Soldiers to speaking locations both within and outside the borders of the United States – remotely, although we would have loved to have done all these visits in person! We started with a very new experience – speaking for two hours with graduate diplomacy/security […]
By Fred Hidvegi From Common Dreams | Original Article As my birthday approaches, I grow more and more anxious because a professional organization of trained terrorists that calls itself an army wants me to be one of them. And if I say no, a prison sentence will be the result. As a soon-to-be 18-year-old Israeli […]
By Rowaida Abdelaziz From Huffington Post | Original Article The U.S. government has long celebrated having immigrants in the military, but Sofya Aptekar’s new book shows it’s a much more complicated story. The U.S. government has long celebrated having immigrants in the military and has touted the 158,000 people who have earned citizenship through service […]
By Sam Biddle From The Intercept | Original Article Federal contract materials outline plans to geofence 67 different public high schools throughout the state and to target phones with recruitment ads. The Georgia Army National Guard plans to combine two deeply controversial practices — military recruiting at schools and location-based phone surveillance — to persuade […]
By Nan Levinson From TomDispatch | Original Article Losing Wars and Losing Recruits After more than 20 years of losing wars, recruiting for the U.S. Army is now officially a mess. Last year, that service fell short of its goal by 15,000 recruits, or a quarter of its target. Despite reports of better numbers in the […]
