From Network for Peace | Original Article While viewing the documentary, “Singers in the Band,” I suddenly began to cry. The film was shown during an event co-sponsored by the Network for Peace through Dialogue in conjunction with the U.N.’s Commission on the Status of Women meetings last month. I cried because I […]
By Greg Milam From Sky News | Original Article The Veterans Affairs Secretary rejects resignation calls over claims people died because of treatment delays at some VA hospitals. America’s top veterans’ affairs official has said he will not resign over claims that as many as 40 people died while waiting for medical treatment in the […]
From Democracy Now | Original Article A new documentary film reveals how a regular U.S. Air Force unit based in the Nevada desert is responsible for flying the CIA’s drone strike program in Pakistan. “Drone” identifies the unit conducting CIA strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas as the 17th Reconnaissance Squadron, which is located on the […]
Excerpts from Courage to Resist article by Mike McKee| Original Article A recently circulated academic paper from a U.S. Army War College research fellow demonstrates that counter recruitment is having a substantive effect on the military’s ability to recruit and retain soldiers. Writing in 2010, its author, Lt. Col. Todd Jacobus of the US Army National Guard, […]
By Sarah Lazare From Common Dreams | Original Article Dafna Rothstein Landman told Common Dreams she’ll go to jail before she’ll serve in the Israeli Army. (Photo courtesy of Dafna Rothstein Landman) Those are the words of 17-year-old Dafna Rothstein Landman, one of 60 and counting Israeli youth who signed an open letter sent to Israeli Prime […]
by Marc Pilisuk and Ines-Lena Mahr From Project Censored | Original Article The role of professional psychology in providing assistance to soldiers and veterans was highlighted by an issue of the American Psychologist devoted to a program for using positive psychology for resilience training. Shortcomings of that approach led to AP agreeing to another issue to alternative perspectives. This article […]
We Are Not Your Soldiers visited two NYC high schools before the February break – one a mini-school in Manhattan, part of a larger high school campus, and the other a transfer high school in Brooklyn. John Burns, a recent veteran, spoke at both. […]
The public should know what really goes on. Few of the politicians who so brazenly proclaim the benefits of drones have a real clue how it actually works (and doesn’t). By Heather Linebaugh An Elbit Systems Hermes 450 drone. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Whenever I read comments by politicians defending the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Predator and Reaper […]
By Ann Jones JROTC and the Militarizing of America Congress surely meant to do the right thing when, in the fall of 2008, it passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA). The law was designed to protect kids worldwide from being forced to fight the wars of Big Men. From then on, any country that […]
Although this happened a few years ago, a supporter recently sent us this information. We thought it would be of interest. THE MAN CONVICTED OF ONE OF THE WORST WAR CRIMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY TAKES QUESTIONS IN A RARE PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN COLUMBUS, GEORGIA “There is not a day that goes by that I do […]
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/11/the_untold_story_of_war_us Today marks Veterans Day, the federal holiday honoring U.S. men and women who have fought in the armed forces. Veterans continue to face extremely high levels of unemployment, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress and homelessness. Since 2000, nearly 6,000 service members have experienced traumatic amputations from injuries caused by improvised explosive devices and other […]
By Jamie Reno From The International Business Times | Original Article The United States has likely reached a grim but historic milestone in the war on terror: 1 million veterans injured from the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. But you haven’t heard this reported anywhere else. Why? Because the government is no longer sharing this […]
