By Kimi Yoshino Los Angeles Times (MCT) LOS ANGELES — The fireworks at Disneyland had ended. It was past closing time and the crowds were pouring out the gates, but we lingered. Layla Alshawi, the 63-year-old mother of our friends, didn’t want to leave. She hugged a light pole, joking that we would have to [...]

Ten years after a band of sadistic bastards leveled part of the New York City skyline, bin Laden is sleeping with the fishes and al-Qaida has been scattered – two victories buried in the disproportionate response to a single terrorist attack.Because the United States lacked a cohesive response strategy, our country has expended enormous amounts [...]

Ten years after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, we’ve seen two foreign wars, trillions of dollars spent on the military, some controversial stripping of civil liberties from U.S. citizens and an American public living in fear of another possible homeland terrorist attack. Is this country better off since those horrifying attacks a decade [...]

By Richard A. Serrano Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT) WASHINGTON — President Obama announced the appointment of Army Gen. Martin Dempsey as his new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, choosing Memorial Day to put the finishing touches on his new national security team and start what the administration hopes will be a U.S. drawdown [...]

The Latino Advocates for Education, Inc. held the 14th Annual Veterans Day celebration at the Titan Student Union Nov. 6 for a special tribute to Gold Star families honoring soldiers who died in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. The auditorium was full of families to honor the loved ones who were no longer able to [...]

Cal State Fullerton’s 14th annual Veteran’s Day celebration will pay tribute to 50 Orange County military service members who died fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan in a special ceremony, Saturday, Nov. 6. Co-hosted by the Latino Advocates for Education Inc., the families of the fallen soldiers, known as Gold Star families, will be recognized at [...]

We first entered this war because a governments’ sole purpose is to defend its citizens. The government reacted to the terrorist attacks in a way that made the rest of the U.S. question how safe our free country really was. Engaging in another war in the Middle East was not a well-thought-out plan if you [...]

Saturday, March 20, thousands took to the streets of Hollywood, Calif. as part of “March in Los Angeles – U.S. Out of Afghanistan and Iraq Now!” The demonstration was a march and rally to demand immediate withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan and Iraq. Cal State Fullerton student Tamara Khoury, 20, was a lead [...]