"He’s writing about how something changes in you in a combat situation, and it’s hard to turn that off in a civilian situation" Emma Kaplan writes: This is pretty interesting and also outrageous…
Category: Military Recruitment
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Demon Drones & War without Borders
By libbyliberal They don’t get hungry. They are not afraid. They don’t forget their orders. They don’t care if the guy next to them has been shot. Will they do a better…
We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour: Taking Responsibility for Ending the Wars
From a UC Santa Barbara student in Global Studies A word of caution, I grew up in Oakland, California, which sits across from San Francisco and next to Berkeley. The Bay…
Collateral Murder
Anthony Wagner | April 16, 2010 I know that these incidents happen more often than not. This is reality, not some video effigy edited to demonize soldiers. What you see in this…
Lowering the Bar: Kindergarten Recruitment
by: Jon Letman How old is old enough for students to be approached by military recruiters? High school? Junior high? Fourth grade? How about ten weeks into kindergarten? Last…
Army Experience Center’s Bad Experience: Turns out Training Kids to Kill Not Popular with Public
By David Swanson “This is so cool! This is so cool!” a thirteen-year-old boy repeated as he squeezed rounds from a real M-16, picking off “enemy combatants” in a video game…
To Socially Conscious Educators
As school starts back up, look around at the world your students are going to inherit. Over one million Iraqis dead in an unjust and immoral war, and 5 million displaced from…
October 6 – the Eighth Anniversary of the Start of the U.S. war in Afghanistan
To Youth in High School Now: What are you going to stand for? As school starts back up, look around at the world that our generation is going to inherit….
Obama Administration Continues Drive For US Global Military Dominance
By Peter Phillips (Editor’s note: Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced yesterday that the Army is undertaking a drive to expand its forces with 22,000 new recruits. This article was written before that…