Amherst Bulletin4dOpinion
Guest columnist David E. Sullivan: A duty to call out demeaning immigrants and the rule of law
The following was excerpted from a talk given by Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan at the Northampton St.
City Journal6d
The Rise of Civil Terrorism
As with today’s civil terrorists, too, their rage was fueled by opposition to what they saw as an unjust war—in their case, Vietnam. The group soon escalated to bombing government buildings and ...
Athol Daily News15d
My Turn: A duty to call out demeaning immigrants and the rule of law
President Kennedy spoke of the Irish Brigade, a band of 1,200 Union soldiers, Irish immigrants, who fought in the battle of Fredericksburg on Sept. 13, 1862. One of the bloodiest battlefields of the ...
The National Interest on MSN15d
Brig. Gen. Meagher’s Irish Brigade Made History in the American Civil War
We started by telling the story of El Batallón de San Patricio(“Saint Patrick’s Battalion”), aka the San Patricios, Irish immigrants to the United States who fought on the ...
The National Interest on MSN15d
Saint Patrick’s Battalion: Why Irish-American Troops Defected to Mexico
The soldiers of Saint Patrick’s Battalion are regarded as national heroes in Mexico and Ireland. M arch 17 is, of course, St. Patrick’s Day (known in Gaelic as Lá Fhéile Pá ...
The New York Sun15d
A Toast to the Irish Regiment, New York’s ‘Fighting 69th,’ on St. Patrick’s Day
Americans celebrating Irish heritage on St. Patrick’s Day can do so by toasting the legendary 69th Infantry Regiment. “The Fighting Irish” embody the spirit behind today’s parades and parties, with ...
Irish Examiner21d
Cork student dies days after falling from fourth-floor balcony
It is understood the young man fell from the fourth floor. Several units of the Cork City Fire Brigade, HSE paramedics and the gardaí attended at the scene. The young man played for an under 21 ...
PBS21d
Ugandan special forces deploy to South Sudan to protect government as civil war fears grow
Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...
Newsweek21d
Syria's Civil War Takes Another Deadly, Dramatic Turn
Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...
Al Jazeera English22d
Uganda deploys troops in South Sudan as civil war fears grow
The pair signed a peace deal to bring a five-year civil war to an end in 2018. Kiir’s government detained two ministers and several senior military officials allied with Machar last week.
PBS22d
Syria’s worst violence in months reopens wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war
An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.