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The forgotten history of Memorial Day
Ohio Capital Journal via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoBy Richard Gardiner, Columbus State University In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former...
Violence intensifies in southwest Colombia as FARC holdout group attacks police and military
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoColombia’s government attributed the attacks to the FARC-EMC a rebel group that broke off from the...
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 Review
IGN Videogames· 5 days agoThis review is based on a screening at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Horizon: An American Saga is the first of four planned Western epics by Kevin...
A conflict photographer captures a moment of brotherhood between two soldiers
KEYT 3 Santa Barbara· 5 days agoThe photograph, taken in 2008 by the late British photographer Tim Hetherington, is from a time when...
Myanmar: Tears for young rebel fighters lost on the front line
BBC News· 4 days agoIn Myanmar’s eastern Karenni State, the sleepy jungle town of Demoso has come alive with...
Hundreds of hostages, mostly women and children, are rescued from Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria
Associated Press· 6 days agoHundreds of hostages, mostly children and women, who were held captive for months or years by Boko...
Pat Buckley, ‘independent Catholic’ priest who ministered to Bobby Sands and came out as gay –...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days ago“He’s dying,” said Buckley. “That’s the idea, mate,” replied thesoldier. He arrived at the hospital...
Police officers killed as Colombia rebels launch gun, bomb attacks
AFP via Yahoo News· 7 days agoColombian guerrilla fighters on Monday killed two police officers and two other people in separate...
World ignoring risk of Sudan genocide - UN expert
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe current violence has erupted out of a long history of tensions over resources between non-Arab farming communities, including the Massalit, and Arab...
The Problem With ‘Conflict-Free’ Minerals
Foreign Policy Magazine· 5 days agoLast February, as the sound of automatic weapons erupted in the early hours before dawn, Amina Museni hurriedly packed a bag while her husband, Joseph,...