Lt. Ehren Watada wins victory; Legal limbo continues
In a victory for Lt. Ehren Watada, the Justice Department decided last week that it would drop attempts to retry the officer for his refusal to deploy to Iraq.
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Army arrests objector who thought he was discharged
After five months in the Army, Dustin Che Stevens sat down during Airborne graduation in order to refuse graduation. He was told to go home and wait for his discharge.
Read MoreNo jail for war resister Benji Lewis, but his fight continues
My resistance was a conscious decision to cease participation in any way the continued maintenance and creation of empire through military intervention and global abuses of economic tyranny.
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Interview with Prof. Stephen Zunes: The Afghanistan mess
Middle East scholar Dr. Stephen Zunes talks about how U.S. imperial hubris helped create, and continues to deepen and intensify the deadly chaos in Afghanistan.
Read MoreGI Victor Agosto : ‘There is no way I will deploy to Afghanistan’
With his impeccable record and accrued leave, he was slated for release at the end of June. That date slipped away, apparent victim to the Stop Loss clause that renders the phrase “voluntary service” meaningless.
Read MoreIraq vets rally against Stop-Loss at Ft. Lewis
Iraq Veterans rallied directly outside Fort Lewis in Washington State on Saturday, May 9 to oppose the Stop-Loss policy of recalling soldiers for repeated overseas deployments.
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