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How will Project 2025 influence the remilitarization of American Youth?

NNOMY Steering Committee

2025 Classroom12/21/2024 / NNOMY - Project 2025 is an authoritarian policy playbook to take over the federal government and enact a radical, far-right agenda that strips Americans of their rights and their ability to have a say in government or gain a foothold in the nation’s middle class. The plan consolidates power in the presidency by gutting the civil service; overruling the long-standing independence of government agencies; weaponizing the Department of Justice; and abolishing government agencies, such as the Department of Education, that support the public interest.1

Project 2025 is a comprehensive policy agenda proposed by a coalition of conservative organizations. It aims to reshape federal government policies across multiple sectors, including education, healthcare, and civil rights2. One of the concerns raised by critics is that Project 2025 could lead to the remilitarization of American youth by promoting policies that increase military recruitment and influence in schools2.

 

Seeking Relief From Brain Injury, Some Veterans Turn to Psychedelics

Super User

Unable to find effective treatments at home, veterans with brain-injury symptoms are going abroad for psychedelics like ibogaine that are illegal in the U.S.

 

A veteran wore an eye cover and headphones during an ibogaine therapy retreat at a clinic near Tijuana, Mexico, in July.

 

Dec. 16, 2024 / Dave Philipps / New York Times -  A veteran wore an eye cover and headphones during an ibogaine therapy retreat at a clinic near Tijuana, Mexico, in July.

A van full of U.S. Special Operations veterans crossed the border into Mexico on a sunny day in July to execute a mission that, even to them, sounded pretty far out.

Over a period of 48 hours, they planned to swallow a psychedelic extract from the bark of a West African shrub, fall into a void of dark hallucinations and then have their consciousness shattered by smoking the poison of a desert toad. 

 

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Proposal for "automatic" draft registration removed from NDAA

Edward Hasbrouck

Excerpt from conference report on the NDAA for FY 2025.An ill-considered and unworkable proposal by the Selective Service System to try to "automatically" register all men ages 18-26 for a possible future military draft has been removed from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025.

The proposal for "automatic" draft registration was included in both the House and Senate versions of this year's NDAA -- without hearings, budget review, or debate -- but was removed during closed-door House-Senate conference negotiations.

A proposal to expand Selective Service to young women as well as young men, which was included in the Senate version of the NDAA but not in the House version, was also removed by the House-Senate conference.

The conference proposal for the FY 2025 NDAA has yet to be considered by either the House or Senate, although it is likely to be one of the highest priorities for the brief "lame-duck" sitting before the end of this session of Congress. The conference proposal could, in theory, be amended during floor consideration in either or both chambers. In practice, however, members of Congress probably have higher priorities for last-minute compromises on the NDAA. The proposals for expansion and attempted automation of draft registration are unlikely to be reinstated in this year's NDAA before it is enacted.

This doesn't mean that Congress has put a stake through the heart of either of these proposals. That would happen only if Congress ended Selective Service registration entirely. The latest version of the Selective Service Repeal Act, S. 4881 in the 188th Congress, never made it out of committee and seems destined to die at the end of this session. Urge your U.S. Representative and Senators to reintroduce it in the new Congress!

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