Years' hence our robots and our new "volunteers," may become our nation's representative in battle. So years' hence, when we come around to future Veterans Days, will we commemorate those American robots whose heroic termination was made for us?
Posted 01.11.2012
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Coleen Rowley | Posted 01.11.2012
It's too bad Americans, as a whole, unlike Europeans, have forgotten this important history of Armistice Day and in fact have reverted to celebrating war as heroic.
Posted 01.09.2012
On November 11 each year, thousands around the world pause to honor members of the armed forces who have lost their lives since World War I. Armistice...
John Philip Newell | Posted 12.25.2011
To pray for peace is not to seek a healing that is contrary to our deepest instinct. It is rather, as Mahatma Gandhi said, to get in touch with "the intense longings of the human heart."
Posted 05.25.2011
The second week of November 2010 saw the return of some familiar faces. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was moved back to his Sycamore Ra...
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.17.2011
Today, Veterans Day honors the duty, sacrifice and service of America's nearly 25 million veterans of all wars. We should remember and celebrate those men and women.
Posted 05.25.2011
President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1919 as a day "filled with lots of pride in the heroism of those who died in t...
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama's go-slow approach to ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" discrimination in the military has left repeal on life support in a lame-duck ses...
Posted 11.11.2011
Veteran's Day Quotes are not hard to come by, but here's a compilation of some of the best and most famous in one place. "Freedom is never free." -...
Jim Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011
More so even than the debt the nation owes our veterans, I owe two vets, my parents, for my existence and for inspiring my accomplishments.
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011
Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.
Dan Agin | Posted 05.25.2011
Had the politicians of various countries been obligated to live in combat on the front lines, it's doubtful that the ferocious carnage of the First World war would have occurred.
Dave Lindorff | Posted 05.25.2011
It is, I would suggest, time for progressives to start searching for a serious, gutsy, plain-speaking candidate to challenge Obama for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2012.
Indra Adnan | Posted 05.25.2011
Perhaps all that is needed is a good role model for soft power: someone who seeks to engage rather than stand off, capable of dialogue not just debate.
William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011
Barack Obama has never worn the uniform. Yet he has more rapport with the experience of the American veteran than the Republicans who are now in the process of relinquishing power to him and his allies.
Michael Vlahos | Posted 01.11.2012