“I felt I was a voyeur, a tourist, a spectator. I felt disgust and disbelief. And I felt an absence within me that I cannot articulate.”
Author: Matthew Hoh
Matthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network. Matt is a former Marine Corps captain, a former Afghanistan State Department officer, and a disabled Iraq War veteran.
Dead and Divine and Brother of All
If in their torment and terror, I see divinity, am haunted by it, then what is in those who murder, defile and desolate?
An Escalatory Game for Fools and Madmen
This Security Council must accept the responsibility of this moment and act to end this existential peril we face.
Americans Are Paying a Massive Price To Maintain the Empire
This fleecing of taxpayers by the Military Industrial Complex is nothing new. Both political parties have hollowed out the American economy.
Night Raids, Tear Gas and Captivity
A mother whose child is held captive in unknown circumstances is enduring a helplessness, grief and terror that should never be known.
Don’t Let Your Pride Get in the Way of Our Arms Sales, Jack!
The US provides weapons and military assistance to 10 of the 12 countries that have set capital punishment for sexual and gender minorities.
Destroying Eastern Ukraine to Save It
Regardless of which side we support, war is a force outside human control and makes our righteousness and morality an agent of its destruction.
A War Long Wanted: Diplomatic Malpractice in Ukraine
Author’s Note: This is the original draft of the letter to President Biden and the US Congress published in The New York...
A Force for Peace in The New York Times
Going against the dominant narrative, an ad in the New York Times urges diplomacy and not more war in Ukraine.
Beyond Vietnam and Into Today
King’s Beyond Vietnam sermon was as predictive as it was powerful and prophetic. It is as valuable today as it was 55 years ago.