The Irish know something about colonialism. Long before there was a British Empire on which “the sun never set,” Ireland was the testing ground for English conquest and confiscating land from the natives. It is understandable, then, that the Irish are especially sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians. Both people share a common history of victimization by the British.
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Vietnam veterans descended on the Capitol 50 years ago this weekânot to impede democracy but to practice it
Bigger than the Jan. 6 insurrection, the 1971 antiwar mobilization known as Operation Dewey Canyon III altered the course of the war and uplifted the nation.
On Sunday, CBS Newsâ â60 Minutesâ profiled the Oath Keepers, a white-supremacist veteransâ group founded when President Barack Obama assumed office. The program traced the groupâs history from its 2009
formation to its armed support of Cliven Bundy in 2014 to its open
plotting of sedition in December 2020. Then CBS showed some cell-phone
footage of the 40 members of the group on Jan. 6, 2021, as they breached