Militarizing the Homeland by Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, August 6, 2009 “My very first recruiting officer was G.I. Joe,” says Iraq war veteran Michael Prysner, an Iraq war veteran…
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Thinking of Hiroshima
I Come and Stand at Every Door by Nazim Hikmet I come and stand at every door But no one hears my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen For I am dead, for I am dead. I’m only…
Afghanistan: Training Ground for War with Russia
Afghanistan: Training Ground for War with Russia NATO Trains Finland, Sweden For Conflict With Russia by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, July 26, 2009 Finnish military patrol in northern Afghanistan in 2008. Photo: HELSINGIN SANOMAT . . . Last month a…
American GIs resist the wars
Inside G.I. Resistance: An interview with two former soldiers who describe how they helped prevent their unit from deploying to a war zone By Sarah Lazare, Counterpunch, August 5, 2009 What do you do if you are a soldier being…
Malalai Joya: The woman who will not be silenced
By Johann Hari, The Independent, July 28, 2009 I am not sure how many more days I will be alive,” Malalai Joya says quietly. The warlords who make up the new “democratic” government in Afghanistan have been sending bullets and…
The Last Fighting Tommy (of WW1)
Harry Patch, the “last fighting Tommy” to have survived the trenches of World War One, died on Saturday at the age of 111. For most of his life, he refused to speak of his horrific experiences. In recent years Mr.…