Upholding victims’ Rights

To the editor: The Friday before Memorial Day, May 22 this year, is designated as National Poppy Day. The red poppy has been a symbol of lives lost to war since World War 1. Poppies are handmade by veterans as part of their therapeutic rehabilitation and purchased by the VFW which provides income for the vets in VA hospitals. The VFW, the American Legion and both auxiliary organizations distribute...

To the editor: U.S. officials and much of the media emphasize the Islamic Republic’s brutal repression of its own citizens, including the killing of large numbers of protesters, while rarely acknowledging Washington’s role in enabling similar abuses in Iran’s past. Twenty-five years of horrific human rights abuses under the Shah of Iran, a close U.S. ally installed in a 1953 CIA-backed co...

To the Editor: As of this writing there are multiple wars in the world. Along with human tragedy and physical destruction we also experience the degradation of our natural environment. Cities, industries, and infrastructure are destroyed. There is an extraordinary amount of economic wastefulness. There is so much near-term bad news that it’s easy to ignore the long-term effects on our climate...