Curt Wechsler | January 7, 2019 Rule of Law, Not Rule of Trump January 11, 2019, marks the 17th anniversary of the opening of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, which was…
Is Trump “anti-war”?
Debra Sweet | December 31, 2018 Looking to the storms coming in 2019, we consider, how is Trump the same as other U.S. presidents, and how is his regime markedly different, requiring…
Corrupt Spineless Iraqi Legislators Are Right
David Swanson | December 28, 2018 {jathumbnailoff} You’ve got 5,000 armed foreign troops stationed in your country. You don’t say a word until the idiot foreign emperor stages a surprise visit. Then…
Changing Students’ Lives To Resist War
World Can’t Wait | December 20, 2018 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 –…
What Our Visits Mean, In Their Own Words
World Can’t Wait | December 18, 2018 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…
William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85
Jim Naureckas, December 13, 2018 {jathumbnailoff} You know you’ve lived well—well enough to rattle the establishment—when the New York Times smears you in the obituary it runs about you (FAIR.org, 6/20/13). That distinction was achieved…
‘A torrent of ghastly revelations’: what military service taught me about America
Lyle Jeremy Rubin | December 17, 2018 {jathumbnailoff} Training on a base in California, and later serving in Afghanistan, made me confront the reality of American empire, and the injustice that pervades…
“Alexa, Drop a Bomb”: Amazon Wants in on US Warfare
Nick Mottern | December 16, 2018 Amazon is seeking to build a global “brain” for the Pentagon called JEDI, a weapon of unprecedented surveillance and killing power, a profoundly aggressive weapon that…
MILITARY RECRUITERS, GET THE HELL AWAY
We Are Not Your Soliders | December 4, 2018 {jathumbnailoff} This week, Lyle Rubin, a former Marine who was sent to Afghanistan, will visit high schools and college classes in New York…
What Will It Take to Save the Children of Yemen?
Jeremy Varon | November 29, 2018 I sifted through the children’s backpacks laid at the Isaiah Wall, across from the United Nations, looking for one labeled with the name of an 11 year-old…