On the show, On Contact, Chris Hedges talks to Matthew Hoh, former U.S. Marine Company Commander, about the high rates of veteran suicides. Hoh served two tours in Iraq as a Marine and with the State Department. He resigned his position as a State Department political officer in Afghanistan in 2009 in protest over the […]

By Tara Copp From McClatchy | Original Article Watch video here. Military recruiters are relying on video games like “Call of Duty” and other online outreach to encourage young men and women to enlist during the coronavirus outbreak that has sharply curtailed more traditional recruiting efforts. May and June usually kick off the busy summer […]

By Erik Edstrom From TomDispatch | Original Article “Every day is a copy of a copy of a copy.” That meme, from the moment when Edward Norton’s character in Fight Club offers a 1,000-yard stare at an office copy machine, captures this moment perfectly — at least for those of us removed from the front […]

By David Swanson From World Beyond War | Original Article A new collection of maps found here displays what militarism looks like in the world. Here’s a brief guide to using and understanding them. Across the top are 10 drop-down menus on these topics: Wars, Weapons, U.S. Weapons, Money, Nukes, Chemical and Biological, U.S. Military, […]

Weeks of visits to schools and colleges by We Are Not Your Soldiers volunteers have, of course, been canceled for this spring.  But using the digital tools of the class room, we recently remotely visited three college social psychology classes in North Carolina. We connected Lyle Rubin’s presentation to the classes’ study of both the Stanford prison experiment and […]

From Center on National Security at Fordham Law The U.S. Navy announced Thursday that it had relieved Capt. Brett Crozier, who commands the USS Roosevelt, after he sounded the alarm about an outbreak of COVID-19  aboard the ship earlier this week. Capt. Crozier had written a four-page letter urging his superiors to allow him to […]

This features Braden Chapman, a courageous Australian ex-special forces member, testifying about the war crimes committed by some of his colleagues, which he witnessed when serving in Uruzgan, Afghanistan. The contents can be assumed to apply to all or most ‘coalition’ forces, not just Australians, in Afghanistan and no doubt also in Iraq and any other country at […]

From World Can’t Wait | Original Article During this pandemic, we call on you to engage in physical distancing with the aim of social solidarity. We choose to say it this way, rather than “social distancing,” because this is what we believe is a crucial concept to live by. Today is the 17th anniversary of […]

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 […]