Articles
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
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The Tragic Death of Brian Arredondo Linda Pershing, with Lara Bell - Brian Arredondo never really recovered from his brother’s death in the Iraq War. When they were kids, Brian adored his older ...
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Teaching Children War
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Jon Letman - Last week, just before Veterans Day, my seven-year-old son, a second grader at a public school on Kauai, brought home an issue of Scholastic News. The cover of the four-page kid's ...
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Militarism and Education from a Feminist Perspective: the Case of Israel
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Haggith Gor & Rela Mazali - Both of us have been looking for years at the implications of raising children in a state that requires them by law to enlist in the army at age 18. At first we were ...
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Veterans for Peace Call for an End to NATO
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Veterans for Peace works for the abolition of war, and while that process will take many steps, one that should be taken immediately is the dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. ...
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Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Brutalizing of Everyday Life
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Henry A. Giroux - Since 9/11, the war on terror and the campaign for homeland security have increasingly mimicked the tactics of the enemies they sought to crush. Violence and punishment as both a ...
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Endless War - Marines prepare for enlistment challenge
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James Dao - Ad Campaign for Marines Cites Chaos as a Job Perk The war in Iraq is over, the troop reduction in Afghanistan is under way and America’s next war front is far from clear. If you are a ...
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Saying No to Militarism
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Robert Koehler - No mail on Saturday, maybe, but small-town police get armored personnel carriers? Let's take a moment -- in the context of these bitter times, and President Obama's recent austerity ...
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Should We End Military Recruiting in High Schools as a Matter of Child Protection and Public Health?
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Amy Hagopian, PhD, Kathy Barker, PhD - SINCE ITS ADOPTION IN 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has been ratified more quickly and by more governments than any other ...
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Military Veterans and Corporate America
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November 13, 2011 - Bloomberg Business Week Dan Beucke - My post last Friday about the jobless picture for young veterans clearly struck a nerve. The commentary that followed ranges across issues of ...
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A Few Good Kids?
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September/October 2009 Issue - Mother Jones Magazine David Goodman - How the No Child Left Behind Act allowed military recruiters to collect info on millions of unsuspecting teens. John Travers was ...
