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Draft? For all the wrong reasons….
Karl Marlantes, a Former Marine who fought in the war on Viet-Nam, has an article in today’s New York Times, “The War That Killed Trust.” Marlantes has several books out on Viet Nam, and is very invested in that war, and…
Riyadh Lafta at UW Seattle October 27, 2016
Dr. Riyadh Lafta is a Professor of Medicine at Mustansiriya College of Medicine in Baghdad, Iraq, and has been a partner and Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington Department of Global Health for the last decade. We have…
Silencing America as it prepares for war.
Silencing America as it Prepares for War By John Pilger Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when…
Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes
SUNDAY, NOV 9, 2014 03:59 AM PST You don’t protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracy It’s been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must…
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Tomas Young, Iraq vet, anti-war activist, dies in Seattle at 34
Tomas Young, Iraq vet, anti-war activist, dies in Seattle at 34 By Christine Mai-Duc Los Angeles Times Tomas Young, who was wounded in Iraq and became one of the first veterans to publicly oppose the war, has died. Young, who…