Tag: Militarism
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House and Senate Armed Services Committees vote to make women register for the draft
Edward Hasbrouck / Antiwar - On September 1st, 2021, the House Armed Services Committee joined the Senate Armed Services Committee in voting 35-24 to expand registration for a possible military draft to include young women as well as young men. Following this House committee vote and an earlier Senate committee vote in July (before Congress’s summer vacation), the versions of the annual ...
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Covid y Militarismo: Desafíos y Controversias
Fabiola Cardozo / NNOMY / English - La Pandemia del Covid 19 causa estragos a diario, afectando todas las aristas de la vida social y en todos los países, ante ello la sociedad estadounidense no ...
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The Militarization of the American Youth (March 1930)
Young Vanguard, The Militant, Vol. III No. 10, 8 March 1930 - A new feature in the militarization of the American youth is taking place in New York. This act, in face of the recent London ...
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The Movement Against War
This article posting dedicated to Libby Frank of the Northwest Suburban Peace & Education Project Emilio, Educarueca.org - In the summer of 1963, the League of War Resisters created a peace action ...
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Poverty, Militarism and the Public Schools
Robert C. Koehler | Originally published in CommonDreams - What’s the difference between education and obedience? If you see very little, you probably have no problem with the militarization of the ...
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The History of War Resisters League (USA)
The War Resisters League (WRL) was formed in 1923 by Jessie Wallace Hughan, a leading suffragist, socialist, and pacifist. It is a section of the London-based War Resisters' International. In the ...
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Pay No Attention to the Apocalypse Behind the Curtain
David Swanson - Remarks in London, England, July 2, 2014 Thank you to Bruce Kent and the Movement for the Abolition of War and to Veterans For Peace and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Thank ...
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The Maimed – On Eleven Years of War In Afghanistan
Chris Hedges - Many of us who are here carry within us death. The smell of decayed and bloated corpses. The cries of the wounded. The shrieks of children. The sound of gunfire. The deafening blasts. ...
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War Making and State Making as Organized Crime
Charles Tilly - If protection rackets represent organised crime at its smoothest, then war risking and state making – quintessential protection rackets with the advantage of legitimacy – qualify as ...
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Endless War: How Shooting Games Perpetuate War as the New Normal
Patricia Hernandez - As of this year, the war on Afghanistan has been going on for over a decade--making it the longest standing war that the United States has been involved with. The average person ...
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