Section: US & Canada
Polish president: No return to imperial ambitions in Europe
Poland’s president has warned that Europe must learn lessons from World War II and must not tolerate any return to imperialist land grabs, an apparent reference to Russian aggression in Ukraine. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
Polish President: No Return to Imperial Ambitions in Europe
Poland’s president has warned that Europe must learn lessons from World War II and must not tolerate any return to imperialist land grabs, an apparent reference to Russian aggression in Ukraine …read more Source: ABC...
Kiev says new cease-fire in eastern Ukraine is holding
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says a new cease-fire in eastern Ukraine is holding, after months of fighting. …read more Source: FOX...
Kiev says new cease-fire in eastern Ukraine is holding
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says a new cease-fire in eastern Ukraine is holding, after months of fighting. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Kiev says new cease-fire in eastern Ukraine is holding
Government forces and Russia-backed rebels agreed back in 2015 to stop fighting and pull back heavy weaponry. The cease-fire failed, however, and international monitors had said the fighting had intensified in the past month to nearly a full-blown war. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Kiev says new cease-fire in eastern Ukraine is holding
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says a new cease-fire in eastern Ukraine is holding, after months of fighting. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
Kiev Says New Cease-Fire in Eastern Ukraine Is Holding
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says a new cease-fire in eastern Ukraine is holding, after months of fighting …read more Source: ABC...
A Priest’s Complaint About Armenian Government Strikes a Chord With the Faithful
Image: Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral. Yerevan, Armenia. Author: Marcin Konsek / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 A priest’s recent criticism of the Armenian government was a rare display of discord between a church and state that usually pull in tandem. Father Armen Melkonian, a priest in the church’s diocese in Maastricht,...
A Promised Land in the U.S.S.R.
The twentieth century did not bring an end to Jewish wandering. I’m a case in point: All four of my grandparents, originally from Poland, survived the Holocaust and made their way to Israel. There my parents were born. But the socialist ethos of Israel in its early years did not sit well with my paternal grandfather, and he did not feel...
Former U.S. Commanders Take Increasingly Dim View of War on ISIS
It’s a most peculiar war: rarely has the U.S. been killing so many while risking so few. The U.S. is beating ISIS handily, judging by Vietnam’s body-count metric. The total number of ISIS battlefield deaths claimed by U.S. officials has jumped, from 6,000 in January 2015 to 45,000 last month—a bloodbath for an enemy force estimated to...
