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To Take Climate Change Seriously, the U.S. Military Needs to Shrink
Military vehicles, along with the forces that use them and the industries that supply them, account for 5% of the world’s carbon emissions every year.
DoD Inflated-Budget Support
DoD Inflated-Budget Support This is a winwithoutwar.org email (another worthy philosophy and organization) of February 20, 2022: Weeks ago, a military coup ousted Burkina Faso’s democratically elected president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. The new leader? Lt. Col....
WWII Anecdotes
Anecdotes of WWII Talk about atrocities, how about baby-on-a-bayonet? Did the pilots/bombers who flew over Hiroshima and Nagasaki have any regret? Editor's Note: These quotes and anecdotes were sourced from various comments in a discussion at quora.com. Paul Tibbets...
Greed of Military-Industrial Complex Leaders is in full swing.
The greed of leaders of the Military-Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned us about is in full swing. In a WinWithoutWar.org email this morning, Feb. 07, 2022, was a note that the Pentagon, like the rest of the federal government, is currently funded by a...
Lake Superior’s Forever Chemicals
Lake Superior’s Forever Chemicals Indigenous tribes around the lake depend on fishing to survive — but the fish are contaminated (Interjection by Don Chapin: The military is notorious for using chemicals before they are thoroughly evaluated and this story is just one...
What People Don’t Tell You About WWII
Quora Question - What don't people tell you about World War II? Addition by Don Chapin: This list Cagle provides (below, in the Quora-published response) is actually only a small part of atrocities conducted, and only because they were made public in some manner. In...
An Undiscussed Consequence of Expanded Draft Registration
An Undiscussed Consequence of Expanded Draft Registration The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) NOV. 26, 2021 Rick Jahnkow / Committee Opposed to Militarism & the Draft - The most immediate danger of expanding draft registration to...
If You’re Joining the Military, is This Your Destiny?
If You’re Joining The Military, Is This Your Destiny? Wes Frank, Masters in American History from Northwestern UniversityAdapted from Quora,” Was there a battle where America left its dead?”https://www.quora.com/ The concept of “never leave your dead behind” is...
The Bomb Didn’t Stop Japan, Stalin Did
The Bomb Didn’t Stop Japan, Stalin Did: Have decades of nuclear policy been based on a lie? The orthodox view is that, yes, of course, it worked, but there are three major problems with it, and, taken together, they significantly undermine the traditional interpretation of the Japanese surrender.
U.S. Job Availability – Quora
U.S. Job Availability Quora Question Mike Rowe, of Dirty Jobs fame, claims that thousands of jobs are available in the US but nobody will take them. In our capitalistic country, doesn't this demonstrate that the rate of pay needs to be increased for these same jobs?...
Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are
Too Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are If work that is of no real value has proliferated, no wonder productivity is stagnant. Bloomberg Mark Buchanan https://getpocket.com/explore/item/too-many-jobs-feel-meaningless-because-they-are Are we creating...
US Defense Spending – What’s the Big Secret?
A Scapegoat for Boeing’s Failures?
Don Chapin’s experience as a government oversight Engineering System Team Lead leads him to question whether Boeing chief technical pilot Mark Forkner’s testimony made him a scapegoat for Boeing’s failures or a testimony to business as usual.
Pilot Error Caused Fatal T-38 Training Crash
Aircrews in T-38C Talons practice maneuvers at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, May 14, 2014. Pilots practice take offs, landing, touch and goes, and tactical formation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Danny Webb/Released) 8 Oct 2021 Military.com | By Stephen Losey...
Contending
These latest posted articles on active duty military and veterans suicide rates can also, I contend, be a function of the command structure and/or very poor field or “career” assignments. When I joined the USAF, and after going through a technical training school, I...
Burn Pits and Sick Veterans
In interview with Jon Stewart, Veterans Affairs chief says he’s ‘frustrated’ over slow pace of burn pit benefits By...
Study reveals top reason behind soldiers’ suicides
https://msrc.fsu.edu/news/study-reveals-top-reason-behind-soldiers-suicides When researchers asked 72 soldiers at Fort Carson, Colo., why they tried to kill themselves, out of the 33 reasons they had to choose from, all of the soldiers included one in particular — a...
Military Suicide is a Crisis. Its Leaders Bear Most of the Blame
The military has a suicide crisis.Its leaders bear most of the blame (Bolding by the editor of Military Truth) Since 9/11, about 7,057 service members have died in military operations. In the same time period, an estimated 30,177 service members and veterans have died...
Military Suicide – Another Reason to Abolish War
Military Suicide: One More Reason to Abolish War https://www.laprogressive.com/military-suicide/ The Pentagon issued its annual report recently on suicide in the military, and it provides us with very sad news. Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on...
Military Contaminating All of Us and STILL Receives Out-of-sight Annual Increases!!!
The Military is Contaminating ALL of us and STILL Receives Out-Of-Sight Annual Increases!!! DOD releases new data on PFAS contamination of bases By Pat Elder, October 9, 2021 (Pat is a nationally-recognized investigative journalist with Civilian Exposure, an...
What You Don't Know About ROTC
An ex-Army Ranger's new mission to educate students considering joining the ROTC.
Safeguard Young Adults From Military Recruitment
Public schools in the Unites States of America are a prime marketing target for military recruiters. (read more)
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