Category: News & OpEd
Vietnam Draft Dodger Donald Trump and his backup singers the Chicken Hawks
By Jeff Paterson. Toby Keith serenades Saudi royalty in support of Trump, Ted Nugent on how to avoid the draft, and more!
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Sign the Petition: Drop the Charges Against Reality Winner
Sign the petition: “Drop the changes against Ms. Reality L. Winner, the defense contractor who allegedly shared with the media evidence of attacks against US election systems by foreign agents. If true, the public had a right to know this information. Her prosecution appears politically motivated.”
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Lawyer explains US military’s “policies on dissent” within ranks
David Gespass provides an update on the US military’s internal “policies on dissent” for the NLG’s Military Law Task Force.
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Worldwide Welcome Home Celebrations for Chelsea
Chelsea shares her first portrait photo, while supporters gather worldwide to celebrate her hard won freedom.
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Chelsea Manning is Free!
Organizers of the former Chelsea Manning Support Network describe how the fight to win Chelsea’s freedom was won, and share their reactions to this amazing victory.
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Marine recruit needed skin grafts for chemical burns from boot camp hazing
In the Washington Post this week (May 3, 2017), journalist Dan Lamothe exposes the horrifying hazing of young recruits.
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Military Law Task Force’s Spring 2017 “On Watch” newsletter
For anyone interested in military law as it pertains to war resisters, “On Watch” is a must read.
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Obama vs. Trump on Drones: What’s Changed?
By Joseph Gibson, Courage to Resist. Now that the face of the US government is once again a cartoonish leader hated by liberals, will we see a rebirth of the antiwar movement? If so, how much attention will drones get, and what would an effective resistance look like?
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The Establishment is not a viable candidate
Jonathan Matthew Smucker’s new article on the rise of Trump, published today in the “New Internationalist”, is worth a read. Jonathan is a friend of Courage to Resist, a political organizer & strategist, Beyond the Choir dir., and author of “Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals”.
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Empire war status
Op-ed by Bob Meola, Courage to Resist. A lot of people miss Barack Obama because he smiled nicely while he dropped over 26,000 bombs on seven nations, last year. He was a much more pleasant personality. … Now, the McResistance, of the Democratic Party and the corporate media have their propagandists reviving the cold war…
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National Guard to roundup immigrants? Resist!
If implemented, a National Guard proposal would lead to enforcement action against millions of immigrants living nowhere near the Mexican border. … Administration officials said the proposal, which called for mobilizing up to 100,000 troops in 11 states, has been rejected for the time being.
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Order drops protection for families of deployed military
In 2013, the Department of Homeland Security, at the request of the Defense Department, issue a policy memorandum aimed at preventing the deportation of spouses, parents and children of active-duty service members through a program called “Parole in Place.” … [the new Executive Order] casually dispenses with exercises of executive discretion…
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