Beginning on Monday November 26, we had another very full and meaningful week of We Are Not Your Soldiers visits to NYC high schools and colleges – this time with Marine veteran Lyle Rubin who had been stationed in Afghanistan. Lyle told the story of an important part of his life – how he came […]
By Lyle Jeremy Rubin From n + 1 Magazine | Original Article My first and only war tour took place in Afghanistan in 2010. I was a marine lieutenant then, a signals intelligence officer tasked with leading a platoon-size element of eighty to ninety men, spread across an area of operations the size of my […]
Nothing we could write could convey more effectively what it means for students vulnerable to joining the U.S. military to hear from veterans conscious of how they could lose their humanity by enlisting. And that’s only half of the story. Most of the students whose classes we visit, whether in high school or college and […]
This week, Lyle Rubin, a former Marine who was sent to Afghanistan, will visit high schools and college classes in New York City as part of World Can’t Wait’s We Are Not Your Soldiers program. In this small but important way, we are intervening with students who are in danger of signing up with the […]
By Rory Fanning From TomDispatch | Original Article A Veteran and Parent Can’t Stop Thinking About the War He Fought I’m here in Chicago, 7,000 miles and 15 years away from Jalalabad, a desolate town in southwestern Afghanistan. Yet sometimes it seems to me as if it were yesterday, or even tomorrow, and anything but […]
By Ryan Harvey From The Nation | Original Article President Donald Trump has deployed 5,600 active-duty US troops to the border with Mexico as part of the mission formerly known as Operation Faithful Patriot. According to leaked documents received by The Nation, the Army will provide Customs and Border Protection officers with anti-riot weapons and […]
From Courage to Resist | Original Article Don’t turn them away The migrants in the Central American caravan are not our enemies Open letter to active duty soldiers Your Commander-in-chief is lying to you. You should refuse his orders to deploy to the southern U.S. border should you be called to do so. Despite what […]
Interview by Robert Scheer From Truthdig | Original Article Earlier this month, the United States celebrated a dubious anniversary. On Oct. 7, 2001, President George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan, marking the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom—a quagmire that continues to this day under the code name Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. The war is now the second […]
We believe that all military personnel have a moral and legal obligation to refuse to comply with any order that involves collaboration with these camps. By Courage to Resist Actual concentration camps are in the process of development at military bases across the southern United States. This isn’t the first time in US history that […]
From Emily Yates Music | Original Article A few months ago I wrote and recorded “You’re The Enemy,” a song about Military Sexual Trauma (MST), for the non-profit Warrior Songs‘ new compilation album Women At War. The album will be released in a couple months but in light of current events, we have decided to […]
By Lyle Jeremy Rubin From The Nation | Original Article Democrats, liberals, and progressives have become some of the biggest hawks in Washington. That needs to change. Coming home from the Forever War can be difficult. Not long after returning from Afghanistan as a Marine officer in early 2011, I found myself feeling betrayed by […]
From The Real News |Original Article Former Marine Lyle Jeremy Rubin talks about how he came to see US wars as a non-stop continuation of the war economy and how US politicians and mass media have numbed the population to the realities of war. GREG WILPERT: It’s The Real News Network and I’m Greg Wilpert […]
