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In the last years of apartheid, an unlikely group of young middle class white men sang a protest song. It became the anthem of a generation of young whites conscripted into the South African Army and ordered to fight for a...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Swedish female soldiers say Sweden's Armed Forces' failure to deliver on a promise of flame-retardant underwear is a form of discrimination. Katja Adolphson of the Swedish Conscription...
The Israeli education minister has unveiled plans to take teams of senior army officers to high schools across the country to help teachers "foster the motivation" of pupils to serve in combat units following a decline in...
From yesterday’s Ha’artez: The Israel Defense Forces’ chief rabbi told students in a pre-army yeshiva program last week that soldiers who “show mercy” toward the enemy in wartime will be “damned.” Brig. Gen. Avichai Rontzki...
By Steve Lillebuen, AAP November 16, 2009, 11:27 am The mother of a Melbourne bashing victim has backed a radical plan for a return to national service in an effort to combat Australia's swell of street violence. Robyn...
Few aspects of theatre stir up feelings quite so much as set design. For the Maly Drama Theatre’s Gaudeamus, a satire about conscription into the Russian army, the set was peppered with trapdoors, so that new recruits would...
November 12th 2009, by Ryne Maloney-Risner Introduction On December 15th 2006, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez announced his desire to create a single, consolidated left wing party entitled the United Socialist Party of...
The Presidential Committee for the Inspection of Collaborations for Japanese Imperialism (PCIC), a state organization chaired by Sung Dae-kyung, has confirmed that Dong-A Ilbo founder Kim Seong-su and..
On a day for mourning the casualties of prior wars and the need for greater peace and peace activism, I'm reminded of an idea I heard on a Dan Carlin's podcast some time ago.I don't remember the title of the episode, but all of...
Oliver Wendell Homes Establishes Clear and Present Danger Test Oliver Wendell Homes held that Congress could regulate speech that created a clear and present danger to cause the substantive evils that it has a right to prevent....
