Articles
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Young America's Dilemma: The Predatory Choice Between Student Loan Debt and Military Enlistment
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May 16, 2022 / Liz Walters / Common Dreams -This past January, student loan company Navient was made to cancel $1.7 billion in federal student debt in a federal settlement judged by Attorney General ...
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Marginalized students pay the price of military recruitment efforts
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With pandemic restrictions easing, military recruiters are returning to high school campuses while anti-recruitment efforts struggle April 18th, 2022 / Roberto Camacho / Prism - The U.S. military ...
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Recruitment, counter-recruitment and critical military studies
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Introduction December 2016 / Matthew F. Rech / School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University - On 8 January 2002 in the US, George Bush Jr. signed into law an educational federal ...
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The House That War Built
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Death toll is in the millions Opinion / 2/21/2022 / Gary Ghirardi - Under the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), public high ...
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‘America’s Army’, the Pentagon’s Video Game, Shuts Down After 20 Years
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For two decades, the U.S. Army used a video game to reach new recruits. It’s finally shutting it down. Matthew Gault | Vice - America’s Army: Proving Grounds, a game used as a recruitment tool by ...
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NNOMY Conducts National Steering Committtee retreat online to explore strategies for network's future
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12/28/2021 / NNOMY Steering Committee - On December 11th 2021 The Steering Committee of the National Network Opposing the Militarization conducted an online national retreat on Zoom to discuss the ...
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Ethnic Studies: Take One
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Isidro Ortiz / Draft NOtices - The late 1960s and early ‘70s witnessed widespread calls for ethnic studies in higher education. Across the country, these calls translated into the establishment of ...
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House and Senate Armed Services Committees vote to make women register for the draft
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Edward Hasbrouck / Antiwar - On September 1st, 2021, the House Armed Services Committee joined the Senate Armed Services Committee in voting 35-24 to expand registration for a possible military ...
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Profiles for People of Color in the U.S. Military 2020-2021
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At the end of 2020, the Defense Department’s Diversity and Inclusion Board released a report aimed at identifying ways to improve racial and ethnic diversity in the U.S. military. Among the report’s ...
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Too Fat To Fight? Obesity, Bio-Politics and the Militarization of Children’s Bodies
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From: McSorley, K. (ed.) (2012) War and the Body: militarization, practice and experience - London: Routledge Joseph Burridge and Kevin McSorley - The United States military stands ready to protect ...
