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Nov 6, 2025 / Justin O'Conner / The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate - The Bossier Parish School Board is once again dedicating money to bail out the federal STARBASE program at Barksdale Air Force Base, this time due to the government shutdown.At Barksdale Air Force Base, there are programs for age blocks starting at fifth-grade, centered on STEM education, their website says. All Bossier elementary schools participate in the fifth-grade program, which involves five days of instruction and hands-on activities at the base. The STARBASE Advanced program for older students includes activities like building carbon dioxide-powered dragsters using CAD software, designing efficient wind turbines, programming a robotic arm, and more.
Various Dates / Various Authors / Quora - Many view military service in the US Military from a personal perspective outside the official narrative of military recruiters and U.S. Government agencies that carry the official line as is demanded of them. A basic question of why American citizen's should not join the military, and why, is not an often offered as a subject for a public discussion as one might expect. Reasons an American citizen might choose not to join the military, and the lack of widespread public discussion on these points, involve a mix of practical, personal, ethical, and cultural factors as well. Though the NNOMY website does not republish discussions from public forums online, we make an exception to the question, "Are there any reasons why an American citizen shouldn't join the military" and listen to the perspectives of people with opinions and even experience on the question courtesy of the Quora Online Forum.
This report was first instigated by the content of X Rubicon and the process by which young people, especially men, are drawn into systems of war pride and violence, indoctrinated at pre-adult age before mental and moral breaking systems are fully developed and engaged.
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November 7, 2025 / Sean Griobhtha / Crossing Rubicons / Op-ed - This report was first instigated by the content of X Rubicon and the process by which young people, especially men, are drawn into systems of war pride and violence, indoctrinated at pre-adult age before mental and moral breaking systems are fully developed and engaged.
The obfuscation that war and the military are a personal opportunity for learning and professional advancement is a longstanding valuable propaganda method, not just for military recruitment, but for the corporate ideology that demands the availability of the standing violent force. Just as the military has spent years and mountains of money in psychological studies to “improve” rate and accuracy of fire in combat, in essence suppression of human natural tendencies, with applicability regardless of all circumstances, instigations, and motivations for war and killing; so the military, with corporate assistance, has spent the same time, energy. and capital in the same field with the addition of entertainment to present the military as a justifiable alternative to the harsh nature of capitalistic society — a “brotherhood of warriors” with food and bed versus the “dog eat dog” civilian society. All this boils down to manipulation, primarily of economically disadvantaged young men.
