By David Solnit, AlterNet. Posted May 9, 2005.
...Much of the last year's resistance to the war has come from within troops themselves and their families: The entire 17 member Army Reserve platoon-the 343rd Quartermaster Company -- refused an order to go on a "suicide" supply mission in Iraq. Hundreds of enlisted men and women cheered when one of their own confronted Rumsfeld at his photo op speech in Iraq and almost two thousand former soldiers are fighting the "backdoor draft." In November 2004, 1,800 of 4,000 people notified (of 110,000 former "individual" ready reserves) are requesting exemption or appealing deployment and of 2,500 ordered to report to military bases 733 never showed up; hundreds have applied for conscientious objector status and the military has admitted that over 5,500 have gone AWOL sine the Iraq invasion. In addition to this resistance within the ranks, military families have become public anti-war spokespeople and frontline activists... more
Somehow, Military�s Recruitment Goals Will Be Met
By Mike Blair, May 6, 2005
The U.S. military is headed for drastic drops in the quality of its troops and morale if current trends continue. Due to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars the recruitment of young men and women for the military has dropped considerably, and recruiting officers are finding it more and more difficult to meet their quotas.
This has resulted in the recruiters relaxing�even falsifying�the requirements that should be met for enlistment in the military services...
Recruiters have also been reportedly lying to applicants by making false promises that if they join up they will not be sent to Iraq... more
In reporting on this situation, the organization found that the networks reported on Israeli children's deaths at rates up to 13 times greater than Palestinian children's deaths. In reality, 22 times more Palestinian children were being killed than Israeli children.
During the first year of the uprising, when four times more Palestinians were being killed than Israelis, the study found that two out of three networks reported on more Israeli deaths than Palestinian deaths. All three networks reported Israeli deaths at rates three to four times greater than Palestinian deaths. more
Dani Barley, April 13, 2005
Two years after the invasion of Iraq, which generated the biggest protests in history, the anti-war movement in the United States is re-gathering strength. At the forefront of this movement has been the families of soldiers in Iraq, and now, increasingly, students organising to stop military recruiters on their schools and campuses.
...At Seattle Central Community College, nearly 300 students forced recruiters to leave campus in January. The students later emerged outside and joined an additional 1000 students from local high schools and colleges protesting the January 20 inauguration of US President George Bush...
...Activists have faced harsh penalties. Three City College of New York (CCNY) students and one staff member were arrested for taking part in a peaceful protest against military recruiters at a campus career fair in March. The private security officials assaulted Justino Rodriguez and Nicholas Bergreen, and each suffered minor concussions and deep bruises. The university has also suspended a third student, Hadas Their, for simply taking photographs of the demonstration... more
Christopher Bollyn, April 10, 2005
U.S. investigators and the controlled media have ignored a preponderance of evidence pointing to Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, being involved in the terror attacks of 9/11.
...At least two Israel-based employees of Odigo received warnings of an imminent attack in New York City more than two hours before the first plane hit the WTC. Odigo had its U.S. headquarters two blocks from the WTC. The Odigo employees, however, did not pass the warning on to the authorities in New York City, a move that could have saved thousands of lives. more
