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A report in The New York Times is horrifying: Russia’s Draft Sends Barely Trained Men to War in Ukraine. Newly mobilized recruits are already at the front in Ukraine, a growing chorus of reports says, fighting and dying after only days of training Neil...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Oct 16, 2022 at 08:45 PM PDT
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Today the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it would exempt Russian men from the draft, if the men are college-educated and hold white-collar jobs in banking, information technology, communications, or Russian state media. This announcement...
by Lincoln green
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on Fri Sep 23, 2022 at 11:41 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. I still remember my parents singing the World War I-era song: “You’re in the Army now, You’re not behind a plough, You’ll never...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Aug 15, 2022 at 06:19 AM PDT
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I don’t necessarily mean a Draft for the military but something like FDR had with the building of bridges and roads? We need A few good people to fight for real democracy like in WWII. We do have a few good people but they are being shut out. We have...
by Vetwife
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on Sun Jan 30, 2022 at 02:12 PM PST
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Baby boomers were the last generation to be drafted. Generation X and Millennials are now too old to be drafted. I have a young Zoomer friend who is too disabled to be of use to a modern military, but he still had to register at the Selective Service...
by RobertEnders
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on Mon Jun 07, 2021 at 04:18 AM PDT
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After Joe Biden finishes swearing his oath of office Wednesday, it appears he’ll only take half a breath before getting cracking on what his chief of staff Ron Klain calls “four overlapping and compounding crises” by issuing a 10-day run...
by Meteor Blades
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on Mon Jan 18, 2021 at 12:40 PM PST
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[N]o player who throws a ballgame, no player who undertakes or promises to throw a ballgame, no player who sits in conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing a ballgame are discussed and does not...
by GrafZeppelin127
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on Fri Dec 25, 2020 at 06:43 PM PST
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A lot of noise lately has been made of Diaper Donnie's bone spurs, or absence thereof. I have come to think of Vietnam combat avoidance on a continuum from draft dodging on one end to draft resistance on the other. In the middle are draft avoiders,...
by ebrann
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on Mon Jul 27, 2020 at 01:34 AM PDT
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A recent bill was introduced at the end of December 2019 by U.S. Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Rodney Davis (R-IL). The bill is H.R. 5492 and it would do the following: Repeal the Military Selective Service Act (thereby eliminating...
by scott t
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on Sat Jan 04, 2020 at 10:10 AM PST
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Author and decorated U.S. Marine Elliot Ackerman was recently interviewed on PBS Amanpour and Company. I encourage others to view or read the entire interview. Below is an excerpt regarding the draft with and other reflections on war, peace, and the...
by Wolf10
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on Sun Jul 28, 2019 at 08:01 AM PDT
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“ The captain told us to ford a river,
That's how it all begun.
We were -- knee deep in the Big Muddy,
But the big fool said to push on.” Pete Seeger 1967
Another blabbering of words
Some ...
by Grey Panther
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on Sat Jun 01, 2019 at 05:00 AM PDT
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More Trump embarrassments abroad; More deadly tornado swarms; More rightwing buffoonery; More bad news from SCOTUS; Some good news for TX; And Mayor Pete doubles-down against 'draft dodger' Trump...
Someone needs to let the President of the United...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue May 28, 2019 at 07:02 PM PDT
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As Donald Trump continues to attack, criticize and whine about the late war hero and former Arizona senator John McCain, a new query has emerged. During an interview on Thursday with Anderson Cooper, former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey, a colleague of...
by Leslie Salzillo
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on Fri Mar 22, 2019 at 01:45 AM PDT
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Women have long complained, rightfully so, that they are not treated he same as men. I would like to propose, in the interest of gender equality, that women be required to sign up for the draft by the age of 18, the same as men. 11 comments
on Sun Jan 20, 2019 at 12:58 PM PST
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The “bone spurs” diagnosis that Donald Trump used as draft protection during the Vietnam War has always looked dodgy, but it gets worse: the diagnosis appears to have been provided by a podiatrist who rented his office from Fred Trump, Donald’s father....
by Laura Clawson
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on Wed Dec 26, 2018 at 07:28 AM PST
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When I was a kid, men my age were veterans of World War Two. They became, later in life, known as "The Greatest Generation." They were also the generation of Archie Bunker. They fought the last war of morality, and they could not understand how young...
by David B
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on Sun Nov 11, 2018 at 02:18 PM PST
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What year were you born?
If you are an American, the graphic above shows the percentage of your life that has been spent with the US at war with somebody. It’s shocking enough just looking at the dates from 2001 on, the 911 effect. Armed conflict...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Apr 03, 2018 at 06:01 PM PDT
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Revenge is a dish best served cold. During the campaign, Donald Trump said “I like people who weren’t captured” when questioned about McCain’s service during Vietnam. The full quote:
“He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured....
by subir
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on Sun Oct 22, 2017 at 06:44 PM PDT
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On Monday, Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal appeared on CNN and voiced support for continuing Robert Mueller’s investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government during last year's election.
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by David Pakman
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on Tue Aug 08, 2017 at 06:19 PM PDT
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It has become quite clear that we are living in George Orwell’s state of perpetual warfare, and that the current Administration intends to get us into new wars because the old ones were not providing enough profit and distraction any more. At some...
by truthistroubling
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on Sun Apr 09, 2017 at 11:37 AM PDT
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