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There is a new joke going around Russia: “What’s the easiest way to clear the snow from your street?  Write “No To War” in the snow — and the police will clear it for you.” Footage on social media shows police obliterating anti-war messages written in the snow.

Question to you, about the fact that this is affecting first responders we saw in chicago where theres been an standoff over this, but many other place fire departments, healthcare workers, police officers, sheriffs deputies, would you think about this part of the equation? >> its a horrible parts of the whole ongoing crime crisis in big cities. when you essentially mandate these things and have legitimat conscientious objectors in the emergency care folks you are literally taking away the safet...

Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson acknowledged that "stigma can stick" at the opening of New Zealand's first national monument for conscientious objectors.

Lawyers for unnamed 21-year-old ultra-Orthodox man who is trying to avoid service in Israeli military say victory in British court could set a precedent for both Israelis and Palestinians

Язык опять стал притчей во языцех. Всю прошлую неделю некий Куат Ахметов из Костаная красовался на информационной авансцене в образе Дон Кихота Лингвистического

Like all Israeli youth, Atalya was expected to become a soldier. Unlike most, she questioned the practices of her country's military, and was determined to challenge this rite of passage. She refused to do military duty and was imprisoned.

Editor’s note: This is part three of a six-part series on conscription (the draft).On Dec. 5, 1942, presidential Executive Order 9279 closed voluntar

Mennonites at War: From Curiosity to an Exhibit – Part 2 Andrea Klassen, Guest Author Senior Curator, MHV Some of MHVs artefacts relating to Dietrich Klassens military service during the Second World War. As his family described him when they donated these artefacts, Dietrich was both a lifetime member of a Mennonite church in Waterloo, Ontario as well as a very proud military man. Mennonite Heritage Village’s (MHV) upcoming exhibit “Mennonites at War” explores the various resp...

1071 ALTHOUGH William, the Duke of Normandy, conquered England in 1066 when he killed King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, the north refused to submit – so he decided to force it, through a campaign of destruction known as “the Harrying of the North”. In 1071, with the north cowed and burned, he gave the land between the Ure and the Tees to Count Alan Rufus, who had led the Breton knights at Hastings and was one of William’s closest friends. The most important settlement in th...

1071 ALTHOUGH William, the Duke of Normandy, conquered England in 1066 when he killed King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, the north refused to submit – so he decided to force it, through a campaign of destruction known as “the Harrying of the North”. In 1071, with the north cowed and burned, he gave the land between the Ure and the Tees to Count Alan Rufus, who had led the Breton knights at Hastings and was one of William’s closest friends. The most important settlement in this...