It is no secret that military recruiters use “questionable” tactics to get high school students from low-income areas to enlist. Now the military has a new ally in Channel One, the for profit educational TV service which provides “educational programming” financed by ads. It seems Channel One has been regularly running ads encouraging students to forgo college for the joys of Army life. This is just one way the government schools are working to encourage students from the lower classes to serve as cannon folder for the empire. For example, No Child Left Behind requires local school officials to turn over the names and addressees of all their students to military recruiters.

Imagine the outcry if Channel One was showing commercials encouraging kids to seek employment at Wal-Mart and schools were making Wal-Mart recruiters privy to their students’ personal information.