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When obedience becomes complicity: From My Lai to today’s military conscience
When obedience becomes complicity: From M? Lai to today’s military conscience by George Cassidy Payne 1235 words Courage is rarely convenient. Sometimes it is condemned. Ask Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. On March 16, 1968, Thompson, a young Army helicopter pilot in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division, flew over the South Vietnamese village
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Donald Trump, union buster
Donald Trump, union buster by Lawrence S. Wittner 972 words Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor unions. The most flagrant Trump action along these lines
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The clarifying power of nonviolence
The clarifying power of nonviolence by Andrew Moss 765 words There is a clarifying power to nonviolence. When Dr. Martin Luther King was jailed in Birmingham in 1963 for protesting racial segregation in that city, he declared that such protests were needed to create a “constructive nonviolent tension” that would lift individuals out of the “dark depths