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  1. Can Soldiers Resist?
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interviews with Tod Ensign and Phil Aliff.
  2. The court does not sympathize
    The moral depravity of the Israeli legal system
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The blood of Palestinians is cheap in this country. No one has ever been punished for killing Palestinians # children, adults, newborns, old people. The murderers are all walking among us, free and happy.
  3. Echo Platoon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Echo and other platoons like it are grim yardsticks for measuring the desperation in which a military under immense strain is now operating. Looking up at that military from Echo's airless limbo, from a world of soldiers who have fallen through the cracks of a system under great stress, you can see just how devastating America's two ongoing wars have been for the military itself. The walking wounded, the troubled, and the broken are now being pressured to reenter the fray.
  4. Fragging
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The assassination of an unpopular officer by members of his own unit.
  5. "Fragging" and "Combat Refusals" in Vietnam
    Resource Type: Article
    The US Army itself does not know exactly how many...officers were murdered. But they know at least 600 were murdered, and then they have another 1400 that died mysteriously. Consequently by early 1970, the army was at war not with the enemy but with itself.
  6. Grinding Down the U.S. Army
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Prolonging a stalemated war will, in fact, only mean more hurt for both Afghans and Americans. The hurt to Afghans will undoubtedly be worse, for their homes are the battlefield, but our own hurt shouldn#t be underestimated. More broken bodies and shattered minds. More echoes of the horrifying violence that accompanies war.
  7. Israel & Palestine The occupation is killing us all
    New Internationalist August 2002 - #348
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    An in-depth into the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Discusses modern myths which have further fuelled the conflict, possible paths to peace, and the role of the United States in the issue.
  8. Killing America's Kids
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Why is the Secretary of Defense so angry at having the war photographed? Easy: Spin control. Spin is so very important in war these days. While America is only barely a democracy, still, if the public, the great sleeping, acquiescent, ignorant beast, ever gets really upset, the war ends. The Pentagon is acutely aware of this.
  9. No One Else Will Stop The Killing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Because we personally understand what war truly means, we have written, called and demonstrated repeatedly for an end to the killing in Afghanistan and Iraq.
  10. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
  11. Six Red Months in Russia
    An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918
    Louise Bryant's account of her time in Russia during the revolution 1917-1918.
  12. The Story of the Christmas Truce
    Resource Type: Article
    On Christmas Day, 1914, in the first year of World War I, German, British and French soldiers disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with "the enemy" along two-thirds of the Western Front. German troops held Christmas trees up out of the trenches with signs, "Merry Christmas." "You no shoot, we no shoot." Thousands of troops streamed across no-man's land strewn with rotting corpses. Soldiers embraced men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before. A shudder ran through the high command on either side. Here was disaster in the making: soldiers declaring their brotherhood with each other and refusing to fight.
  13. The U.S. Military Under Stress
    Against The Current vol. 112
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    John Kerry's campaign tome should dispel any illusion that he has any significant differences with George Bush on the aggressive use of the U.S. military to defend the empire.
  14. US Workers Starved Into Military Service
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Humanity has passed the tipping point # economically, culturally and environmentally. The #consuming and killing# model embraced by Americans as cultural norm is, in reality, a cultural aberration. It is destroying everything and everyone in its wake - including those who are fighting and dying to preserve it.
  15. War and the Culture of Violence
    Against The Current vol. 125
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Last year I had the opportunity to see “Winter Soldier,” a rarely shown 1971 documentary based on the testimony of over 100 soldiers recently back from Vietnam. It was filmed during a three-day hearing on war crimes that Vietnam Vets against the War organized in Detroit. Young soldiers spoke about atrocities they had committed in the name of freedom and democracy: throwing suspects out of planes, torching villages, raping women, killing civilians. Of course the Nixon administration attempted to discredit the soldiers and their stories.
  16. Winter Soldier 2008
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    More than 250 veterans and military families gathered from March 13-15 outside Washington, DC for the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Winter Soldier Investigation: Iraq and Afghanistan. Videos of their testimony on their experiences are posted at www.IVAW.org.
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