by Theresa Shaffer | Jun 2, 2014 | Monitor
Last week, the South Korean President Park Geun-hye made a statement warning against another North Korean nuclear test. She stressed that this could lead to a domino effect, in which other countries in the region may begin to see this as a threat and arm themselves...
by Lindsay Holst | May 26, 2014 | Monitor
Watch on YouTube Today, President Obama traveled to Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and deliver remarks at a memorial service honoring our fallen servicemembers and their families. The President, who returned from...
by Jeffrey Lloyd | May 22, 2014 | Monitor
West Antarctic Ice Collapse ‘Could Drown Middle East and Asia Crops’Suzanne Goldenberg / The GuardianThe collapse underway of a large part of the Antarctica ice sheet could devastate global food supply, drowning vast areas of crop lands across the Middle...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 19, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — also the battle of Gaixia, 200 BCE, with an echo late in the Korean War — and a tip of the hat to Emlyn ] . Kagemusha, the flute call: ** There’s a sequence near the start of Akria Kurosawa‘s masterpiece, Kagemusha, when...
by David Hudson | Mar 18, 2014 | Monitor
Click here to see the photo gallery. This afternoon, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to 24 Army veterans in recognition of their valor during major combat operations in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Each veteran honored today had...
