Kevin Young - The Comment Factory
Young people tend to enlist in the military when they see no better option for their future. Far from being an "all-volunteer" force, as commonly asserted, the US military survives in large part by coercing economically-disadvantaged and jobless youth into its ranks while promising them huge enlistment bonuses, money for ...
Cosmo Garvin, Seth Sandronsky and Hugh Biggar - Sacramento News & Review
It's been a tough year for the Peace and Freedom Party in California. In the spring, voters passed Proposition 14, the "top two" primary system, which will probably spell the end of third-party election campaigns in the state. The press, particularly the big dailies, have never been very understanding, or ...
Brian Tumulty - Ithica Journal
WASHINGTON -- What if you received an invoice in the mail every year to show just how your federal tax bill was spent?David Kendall of the Third Way, a Washington think tank of moderate liberal policy leanings, broached the idea recently in an article that included a sample invoice.Kendall used ...
By Madelyn Hoffman - OP-ED News
On Saturday, October 2nd, a bus provided by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) left from the Essex Junior Academy, next door to the Bloomfield-based New Jersey Peace Action (NJPA), and traveled to the One Nation Working Together (ONWT) rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. NJPA organized 4 ...
Maud Easter - Albany Times Union
Tomorrow, Saturday the 16th, I'll be out on the sidewalk by Colonie Center, joining other grandmothers – or in my case, grandmotherly aged women – to demand an end to the Afghan War. We'll be there because we know we and our families can't afford this war anymore. Instead of ...
Chris Dunn - Collegiate Times
Free tuition at Virginia Tech? Free health care for low-income families? Drastically reduced taxes for all? Safer vacations abroad? These are but a few ways in which citizens of the 9th District could benefit from the absence of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sara Jackson - Daily Collegian
On Oct. 7 the mayor and city council of Northampton passed a resolution called, "Bring the War Dollars Home," which calls on the Northampton's congressional representatives to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on the grounds of economic cost to the city. Six council members voted for the resolution, ...
- The American Legion's Burn Pit
A multi-cultural military, for a multi-cultural country. Let's not let extremists frame the topic.
Georgeann King - Midtown Republican Club
According to a survey by the National Priorities Project, the South leads in military volunteers. The regional breakdown shows that active duty recruits per 1,000 youth is 1.81 in the South; 1.01 in the Northeast; 1.33 in the Midwest and the West has 1.44. That translates into 23% more recruits ...
