Such was the case of Army Specialist Jason K. Edens, 22, who tragically lost his life on April 26, 2012 as the result of injuries he sustained on April 15, 2012 while serving in Laghman Province, Afghanistan, as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.1 The heartbreaking photo below was posted to Reddit two years ago of […]
The framework agreement the U.S. and its international partners reached with Iran that blocks Tehran’s pathways to building a nuclear bomb is barely a week old and yet the usual suspects have already denounced it as a “bad deal.” Sound Familiar? Of course, we all know how this played out in Iraq: no WMD, tens […]
Former president Jimmy Carter had an opportunity to respond to recent remarks by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) during an interview at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston to discuss his new book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power. Speaking to a radio station in Phoenix, McCain used Carter’s foreign policy legacy […]
An Afghan woman has killed at least 25 Taliban militants and injured 5 in a 7-hour gun battle to avenge the murder of her son. PressTV reports that the woman, identified as Reza Gul, picked up arms after her son, a local police officer, was “shot dead before her eyes in western Farah province.” Gul […]
In March of 2013 paralyzed Iraq veteran Tomas Young reminded the world in a powerful letter about who was to blame for Iraq – Bush and Cheney – calling them war criminals and murders of both Iraqis and Americans. In a powerful clip from Democracy Now, he read from that letter that told his story […]