Tag: Edward Hasbrouck
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Military Draft Sign-Ups Plunge as War Fears Rise
October 11, 2024 / Edward Hasbrouck / Antiwar.com - Of men in the U.S. who turned 18 in 2023, fewer than 40% signed up for the draft – down from more than 60% in 2020 before the start of the war in Ukraine. This eye-popping and previously undisclosed admission, as well as other revelations equally damning to plans to increase readiness to activate a draft, was included in documents released ...
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‘Realists’ Think We Need To Prepare for a Draft So We Can Win a War With China
Fantasies underlying push for conscription are delusional and dangerous August 13, 2024 / Edward Hasbrouck / Antiwar.com - Doubling down on their recent war-game exercises and report on the ...
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California Selective Service Bill Set for Hearing in Sacramento April 9th
The “opt-out” provision in SB-1081 is deceptive and entrapment March 10, 2024 / Edward Hasbrouck / Resistance News - A bill to automatically register draft-age applicants for California driver’s ...
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US Senate Prepares To Expand Selective Service to Women as Well as Men
Edward Hasbrouck / Antiwar.com - After months of delay, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Sunday that the Senate is "likely" to vote this week on an annual defense bill which ...
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House Hearing on Selective Service
May 19, 2021 / Edward Hasbrouck / Antiwar.com - A House Armed Service Committee (HASC) hearing on May 19th heard from witnesses on only one side of the debate over whether to end draft registration ...
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Supreme Court asked to review Constitutionality of current male-only draft registration requirement
Edward Hasbrouck / Resisters.info - On January 8, 2021 the National Coalition For Men, a men’s rights organization represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, petitioned the U.S. Supreme ...
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National Commission Says Expand Draft Registration to Include Women
By Edward Hasbrouck / Resisters.info / COMD - On March 25, the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS), after a three-year charade of stage-managed and largely ...
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House votes down proposal to defund the Selective Service System
Edward Hasbrouck | Originally published in The Practical Nomad July 7th, 2016 This week, during consideration of the annual funding bill for the Selective Service System and miscellaneous other ...
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Urge Congress to support H.R. 4523
Edward Hasbrouck - This year, Congress is having its most serious debate about draft registration in decades -- but so far, the debate has ignored the peace movement and the history of the draft, ...