by Ken Sehested | May 28, 2021 | Opinion
My question is not whether we should mourn, legitimately and unreservedly, the loss of our war dead on Memorial Day. Yes. A thousand times, yes. My question is this: On what day should we also mourn the loss of others’ war dead? Indeed, one of Memorial Day’s stories...
by Mitch Randall | Sep 10, 2020 | Opinion
Words matter. The Atlantic magazine reported last week that President Donald J. Trump dishonored U.S. soldiers and veterans when he referred to soldiers killed in action as “losers” and “suckers.” The White House denied the claims, but former Chief of Staff John Kelly...
by Mitch Randall | Jun 11, 2020 | Opinion
Democracy teetered on the brink of collapse on June 1. Responding to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of police a week earlier, thousands of citizens marched demanding justice. They declared that Black Lives Matter and advocated for a...
by Martin Accad | Jan 23, 2020 | Opinion
The targeted assassination of Qasem Soleimani and of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at Baghdad Airport, authorized by President Donald Trump in the early morning of Jan. 3, officially baptized the new year of 2020 with blood. The elimination of the major general of the Quds...
by Ken Sehested | Jan 9, 2020 | Opinion
The U.S. has been itching for a brawl with Iran for 40 years, ever since U.S. embassy personnel in Tehran were taken hostage in 1979. Now, with the assassination of one of Iran’s top military and political leaders, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, along with top Iraqi military...
