How America’s Wars End (Messily), by Danny Sjursen
Count on this: the end of the American military mission in Afghanistan will be unfulfilling and likely tragic.
An American Tragedy: Empire at Home and Abroad, by Maj. Danny Sjursen
As a child myself, educated in public schools that peddled the dangerous myth of American exceptionalism, I never imagined a day when my government would separate refugee children from their parents...
A Veterans’ Anti-War Movement Takes Root at Peacestock, by Danny Sjursen
Social media activism has got to be replaced with holding signs, and standing in the rain [in Minnesota in the snow and cold, and both have been done by these vets]; joining Facebook groups replaced by joining Veterans for Peace and About Face (both).
Majorities of U.S. veterans, public say the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting, Pew Research
Among veterans, 64% say the war in Iraq was not worth fighting considering the costs versus the benefits to the United States, while 33% say it was.
No War on Venezuela; MPAC on Syria
Troops Home Now – Out of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and Off the Borders!
Minnesota Peace Action Coalition Statement on Trump’s Troop Withdrawal Plans
It’s clear the question is not “how” the troops will be brought home, but whether they will be brought home at all.
Minneapolis Protests: NO TO WAR
Created by CircleVision, a video from 2010 that is also true today.
Chris Hedges: The Soldier’s Tale
“Pat Tillman showed me I could resist the indoctrination”
On Purpose, In Kabul by Kathy Kelly
“In short,” says Chapman, the U.S. government “made things worse rather than better.”
Where on earth is the just economy that works for all, including Afghan children?
Oxfam calculated that the world’s eight richest individuals had as much wealth as the poorest half of the world.
War Deaths and Taxes by John LaForge
This year at least 47% of federal income taxes goes to the military!
Chelsea Manning: We Need to Stop This 'Death Machine of Power'
All these systems are overlapping, and they’re suffocating people, deliberately and methodically, over decades. And this has been a continuing—you know, like people have been building this whirling death machine of power for decades now.