Tag: Pentagon
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Researching Pop Culture and Militarism: What exactly is an 'anti-war' film?
Selene Rivas - November 24, 2017 (CW: suicide) “A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the la ...
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Poverty, Militarism and the Public Schools
Robert C. Koehler | Originally published in CommonDreams - What’s the difference between education and obedience? If you see very little, you probably have no problem with the militarization of the A ...
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Hansel and Gretel at the Military Recruiter
John LaForge - Military recruiters must feel like Hansel and Gretel’s “wicked witch,” fattening up the children to eat them. With sexual violence, endless wars of occupation, fatalities, brain trauma ...
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Linchpin of Pentagon’s School-based Recruitment: Student Testing Program (ASVAB) Rife with Errors and Contradictions
Pat Elder - Student Privacy Compromised by Massive Program In late December, 2013 the Department of Defense released a database on the military’s controversial Student Testing Program in 11,700 high ...
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The Gun Problem No One Talks About: Shooting Ranges in Schools
Rick Jahnkow - Just about everyone views the National Rifle Association as the leading champion of gun culture in the United States. When there is a mass shooting — even one as outrageous as the atta ...
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Ninth CIRCUIT COURT RULING: CONFRONTING MILITARISM BY USING EQUAL ACCESS TO HIGH SCHOOLS
Rick Jahnkow - When the military comes to your local high school, you have a legal right to give students an opposing view. This has been the position taken by federal district courts in Florida, Pen ...
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Navy Steals: The military's new interest in STEM education
Seth Kershner - Although women make up about half of the United States workforce, they represent just 24 percent of careers in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). In orde ...
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The Pentagon is Like the Vatican
John Stanton - Why the Civilian Leadership Fears the Military “Only 17 percent of the all-volunteer force serves for more than 20 years, and they are endowed with a lifetime benefit. The current US m ...
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