Veterans against Memorial Day (video)

Fmr. West Point Prof. Maj. Dan Sjursen (Ret.), Jimmy Dore; Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

Major General Smedley Butler said it best early on when speaking of U.S. imperialism when he said, "War is a racket" (a corrupt money-making enterprise).

Patriotic Dissent

Patriotic Dissent: Endless War

Let's end war. Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War incendiary work by Daniel A. Sjursen is a personal cry from the heart by a man who was once a model U.S. Army officer and West Point graduate. He became a military dissenter while still on active duty and even as he became a professor at West Point U.S. Military Academy.

Soldiers, Civilians, Surge Myth

Set against the backdrop of "wars" on terror, a technique not a target, over the last two decades, Major Sjursen (retired) asks whether there is a proper space for patriotism that renounces entitled American exceptionalism and narcissistic nationalism (jingoism).

A burgeoning neoconservative, Maj. Sjursen calls for a critical exploration of our allegiances and suggests a path to a new, better, more complex notion of patriotism. Equal parts idealistic and somber, this is a story about what it means to be an American in the midst of endless American wars and what the future of patriotism may look like.