In her 1970 book, Up Against The War, Norma Sue Woodstone gives voice to those who refused conscription and campaigned against the US war in South-East Asia. Men who refused the draft were tarred by polite society as being cowards, ‘Draft Dodgers!’ A slur to be thrown...
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News Roundup 6/13/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 13, 2024 | News Roundup
Assange Assange’s Extradition Appeal Hearing To Be Held Next Month AWC Ukraine US Lifts Ban on Arming and Training Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade AWC Finnish Forces Conduct First NATO Deployment The Institute G7 Expected To Announce Plan To Provide Ukraine With...
News Roundup 6/11/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 11, 2024 | News Roundup
Russia Congress: Let Ukraine hit more targets inside Russia with US weapons X Ukraine Says Some of Its F-16 Fighter Jets Will Be Stored Abroad AWC China US Wants To Create ‘Hellscape’ of Drones If China Attacks Taiwan AWC Israel Report: US Considers Talks With Hamas...
Why Libertarians Loathe Tariffs
by Laurence Vance | Jun 11, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump loves tariffs. In his 2011 book Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again, Trump included as part of his five-part tax policy “a 20 percent tax for importing goods.” During his first campaign...
News Roundup 6/5/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 5, 2024 | News Roundup
Ukraine Ukrainian Official Says Ukraine Launched Strikes on Russian Territory With US-Provided Rocket System AWC NATO Developing ‘Land Corridors’ To Rush US Troops to Frontlines in Event of War With Russia AWC Ukrainian Soldiers Receive Insufficient Training Before...
News Roundup 6/3/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 3, 2024 | News Roundup
Russia Biden Gives Ukraine Permission To Strike Inside Russia With US Weapons AWC NATO Chief Asks Allies to Commit $44 Billion in Military Aid to Ukraine Annually The Institute Report: France May Soon Announce It’s Sending Troops To Ukraine for Training AWC...
America’s Ugly History with the International Criminal Court
by Ted Snider | May 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On May 20, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced that he was seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as well as for Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, and Mohammed...
News Roundup 5/29/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | May 29, 2024 | News Roundup
Russia White House Threatens to Strengthen Sanctions on China and Russia Putin Warns West of ‘Major Consequences’ If Ukraine Strikes Russian Territory With NATO Missiles AWC Ukraine Targets Radars That Are Part of Russia’s Nuclear Warning System AWC Israel US Says...
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KC-46A Pegasus Refueler Failure Continues
One of the components of American strategic projection has been the world's most prodigious and sophisticated aerial refueling fleet. There are currently approx 400+ KC-135s capable of refueling two receiver aircraft at the same time in the current USAF fleet. The...
No Longer Born to Kill – Anti-War Blog
Recently Amazon removed the “Born to Kill,” from Jokers helmet for the film Full Metal Jacket. The words sit alongside the peace emblem on his steel helmet and makes for an iconic film poster. So it once did. The words perhaps too violent for modern audiences...
Fiji Follies Mimic First World Navigation Problems
There are now eight (there were nine before this disaster) total patrol vessels in the navy of Fiji; this is simply negligence and lack of proper training much like the US Navy collisions in 2017. It is extraordinarily expensive to reconstitute a vessel that has...
Up in Smoke: The Other Space Race Continues
A comprehensive ban on all nuclear testing occurred in the 1990s. The Soviet Union's last nuclear test took place on 24 October 1990; the United Kingdom's on 26 November 1991 and the United States' on 23 September 1992. Advances in the ICBM arena have continued apace...
Robert Fisk – The Road to Palestine – Anti-War Blog
In Part Two of his Three part series, From Beirut to Bosnia, Robert Fisk gives detail to the tragedy of Palestine. As it was then when the series was made, 1993, the people of Palestine had already suffered tremendously. A lost people, those blamed for the crimes of...
New Book Is A Must Read For Iraq War 2 Enthusiasts
Iraq War 2 is ancient history, like Athens’ defeat at Aegospotami or the NATO-Russia Founding Act. But for some of us, it seems like only yesterday we were being lied into one of the greatest geopolitical disasters of the Western imperial order. There’s a new book...