By David Swanson From DavidSwanson.org | Original Article “Memorial Day is a time to remember, appreciate, and honor the selfless patriots who gave the ultimate sacrifice in service to freedom. At a time when our country seems so divided, we must not forget that it is because of their service and sacrifice that we live […]
We received the following request from Studentprivacy.org. Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, NY Department of Education, will be holding Town Hall Forums throughout NYS from 5/2-6/15/2018. One topic she will be addressing is Student Privacy Rights. The New York Coalition to Protect Student Privacy advocates for student privacy rights when they take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude […]
by William Schroder From History News Network | Original Article More than forty years after the Vietnam War, death and devastation continue to follow in its wake, and the misery index rises even though the shooting has long stopped. Richard Nixon once stated that no other American war was more “misunderstood, misreported or misremembered.” This may […]
Child at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS practices shooting in the school. Please sign the petition to shut down firing ranges in U.S. high schools! Your message will be sent to your state legislators. The Army taught Florida gunman Nikolas Cruz how to shoot a lethal weapon in his high school cafeteria when he was 14. […]
From Democracy Now | Original Article Fifty years ago, on March 16, 1968, U.S. soldiers attacked the Vietnamese village of My Lai. Even though the soldiers met no resistance, they slaughtered more than 500 Vietnamese women, children and old men over the next four hours, in what became known as the My Lai massacre. After […]
From Democracy Now | Original Article As a group of Vietnam War veterans and peace activists travel back to Vietnam to mark the 50th anniversary of the My Lai massacre, Amy Goodman and Juan González speak with three members of the delegation: Vietnam veteran Paul Cox, who later co-founded the Veterans for Peace chapter in […]
World Can’t Wait began sending veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq into classrooms in 2007, as GW Bush, and then Obama, claimed the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan were being won. Not “won” and not over, as we know now. The Trump/Pence Regime has roared in with MAGA, pushing its plan to “win” in Afghanistan: sending […]
By Joe Urgo As we are right now at the 50th anniversaries of Tet and the beginning of the whole year of 1968, I write this at a time of tremendous danger and great potential. For those who have lost faith in the power of the people to change the world, I say this. In […]
Miles Megaciph, one of the speakers going to visit high schools and colleges through our We Are Not Your Soldiers project, returned to Okinawa where he had been stationed when in the military, with a Veterans for Peace delegation supporting the struggles of the people of Okinawa to remove US military bases from their land. […]
By Lyle Jeremy Rubin From Peace in Our Times | Original Article In an age of endless war and social turmoil, the veteran has become a fetish. Americans are desperate to believe the United States is still righteous and powerful, even though most of us know otherwise. Much like the flag we drape ourselves in, […]
By Yaniv Kubovich From Haaretz | Original Article ‘The army is carrying out the government’s racist policy that violates basic human rights,’ 63 teens write to Netanyahu and Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot A group of 63 teens have publicly declared they will refuse to be drafted into the Israel army, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on […]
