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Direct Action against Militarism

Owen Everett - Based on a piece by Cecil Arndt In different countries, war and militarisation take on very different meanings and have different effects, depending not only on the presence or absence ...

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Violence, USA

The Warfare State and the Hardening of Everyday Life Henry A. Giroux - Since 9/11, the war on terror and the campaign for homeland security have increasingly mimicked the tactics of the enemies they ...

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The Militarization of Catholic Jesuit University Education

Robert Graf - Not Your (Grand) Father’s Military St. Ignatius surrenders his weapons St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, became a “soldier of Christ,” laying down his worldly wea ...

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Militarism in Education

Andreas Speck - “On 1 August 1914, it was too late for pacifist propaganda, it was too late for militarist propaganda – in fact the militarists then only harvested what they have sown 200 years befor ...

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The Permanent Militarization of America

Aaron B. O’Connell - NOTE: NNOMY does not endorse the assumptions about the impact of militarization on the U.S. economy outlined in this article but chooses to repost it to highlight concerns for th ...

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Military Targets Corvallis High Schools: Too Young to Drink, Old Enough to Serve

Genevieve Weber/Corvallis Advocate - War is a touchy subject, especially given the near-palpable tension of the upcoming presidential election. If you’re against war, you’re a hippy at best, anti-mil ...

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School to Prison Pipeline: Military Influence in Schools

Rebecca Perez - This segment in my series of the School to Prison Pipeline is on the influence that the military has on our school systems. During my research I have found that there are actually two ...

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Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Brutalizing of Everyday Life

Henry A. Giroux - Since 9/11, the war on terror and the campaign for homeland security have increasingly mimicked the tactics of the enemies they sought to crush. Violence and punishment as both a me ...

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War on Terror - Big Brother on campus

Michael Gould-Wartofsky - From breaking up Occupy protests to spying on Muslim students, homeland security is targeting college kids Of the many intellectual perversions currently taking root on coll ...

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Forced Military Testing in America's Schools

Pat Elder - The invasion of student privacy associated with military testing in U.S. high schools has been well documented by mainstream media sources, like USA Today and NPR Radio. The practice of m ...

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