The United States began lobbing missiles in Afghanistan in early October of 2001, and boots were on the ground by October 19th. Nineteen years of war means some of the soldiers fighting this never-ending war were not even born when it began. President Trump is currently reducing the number of troops in the country known…
Over the past week, Trump has made an anti-war, or at least ‘anti-endless war’ sentiment a central focus of his messaging. He’s talked about wasted American dollars and wasted American lives. He’s at least hinted at the possibility of troop withdrawals (as opposed to merely re-positioning troops within the countries they’re already deployed in). These…
M*A*S*H is the classic sit-com telling the story of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War. Despite the wartime setting, or perhaps because of it, this comedy contains some of the most profoundly anti-war sentiments in television history. 1. Goodbye, Farewell and Amen Hawkeye is held in a psychiatric ward with suppressed memories…
The Anti-war Left by-and-large, well… left, sometime during Obama’s Presidency. Most were killed by the kind of partisanship that would excuse expansions of the war machine as long as the guy doing it had a “D” by his name. Among the partisans, there is still lingering denial about bombing more countries than Bush, violating the…
By Richard Pollock Daniel Ellsberg, who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers, told a nostalgic anti-war gathering in Washington, D.C., Tuesday “we may be weeks away” from President Barack Obama “furtively” sending new U.S. “combat units” to Iraq. “As we talk, we may be weeks away from Marines being sent as units into combat in Iraq,”…
Andrew Follett “Mutually assured destruction” is a common phrase concerning nuclear war, but anti-nuke activists want the U.S. and Russia to practice “mutually assured creation.” Roughly 100 protesters descended on Washington, D.C. Friday for the Nuclear Security Summit seeking to eliminate the world’s nuclear arsenal by protesting world leaders. The protesters represented a coalition of activists groups, including Global Zero…