Anyone who cares about our natural environment should be marking with great sadness the centenary of World War I
A wave of action is coming on April 4th
War activists are not journalists, not researchers, not academics. They don’t inform or educate. They advocate
Remarkably, the U.S. Army War College has published a report that makes an overwhelming case against enlisting in the U.S. Army
Young women reading about the glories of “saving the nation” by building nukes should think hard before joining the military
What ought to amaze us is the extent to which the Complaint does address the same troubles we face today and the same bad arguments used today in defense of wars
So now we (or at least the 0.03% of us who care to hunt for it) discover that U.S. military spending is not actually being cut at all, but increasing
David Swanson talks in Brunswick, ME
Is it possible that Nazi scientists blended into the U.S. military so well because an institution that had already done what it had done to the Philippines was not in all that much need of nazification?
How do we create a question nobody is asking, about a topic nobody has heard of, and then answer it humanely and wisely?
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