Category: International

Reader’s Voice: Cease-fire: Handful of Voters

December 15, 2023Dear editor; The joint U.S.–Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza has shaken the world, and as American citizens, we have been heartbroken to witness the relentless bloodshed, with the majority of victims being civilians, including 7,800+ children. What’s worse is the knowledge that our hard-earned tax...

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World should be viewed with facts, not fiction

Just when I thought it was safe to forget about the world and politics and go back to writing inane humorous (?) stuff, Wild Bill Suhayda pops out of his hovel to spew his baseless, non-existent, facts, this time about Hamas and Israel. In the first sentence of his drivel,...

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Reader’s Voice: Action for ceasefire now

December 11, 2023Dear editor; My name is David Cannon and I am the Democratic Party Precinct Committeeperson for Aurora 38. I mailed all PCs a letter in early November, asking them to encourage our congressman, Bill Foster, to sign on to a resolution calling for ceasefire now. Currently, more than...

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Anti-Zionism not the same as anti-Semitism

On correcting the “corrector”: Bela Suhayda, in his infinite wisdom, has presented us with an historical perspective which he believes is politically correct. There is, however, another historical perspective which he dares not to enunciate because he believes it is politically incorrect and hence would cause him great harm if...

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Reader’s Commentary: Defense real against Charles Coddington’s anti-Semitism

By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Charles Coddington, in an incredibly-obtuse article to The Voice November 16 edition, dredged up hundreds of years of history to explain the meaning of anti-Semitism and how wrong we are using the term. The Chas argues semantics when Israeli babies are burned alive. Hate is hate...

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Christmas past in Ireland relived in joy

The tableaux of Bethlehem on that first Christmas night centered on the Christ Child nestled among the straw of a wooden manger. His mother Mary, and Joseph the Carpenter, were seeking shelter among the doves and donkeys and fragrant evergreens. The family of three was to change the beliefs of...

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Reader’s Voice: Personal account: Ukraine winning

November 15, 2023Dear editor; Ukraine is winning. After returning from my second trip to Ukraine this year I have a deep appreciation for the will of their people and beliefs in freedom. On my first trip during the month of May I volunteered with five organizations, chopping vegetables for meals,...

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Representative Kifowit to attend Conference

Illinois State representative Stephanie Kifowit (D-Oswego) is set to attend the annual Tradeswomen Build Nations (TWBN) Conference in Washington, D.C., December 1-3. The Conference will bring together thousands of women from across various industries to learn, share, and connect. Tradeswomen Build Nations is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering women...

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Reader’s Voice: President must close borders

November 13, 2023Dear editor; In times of crisis, four presidents ordered the closure of our borders. The 9-11 terrorists entered our country illegally by using forged passports. One can only wonder how many terrorists or criminals could be embedded among the illegal immigrants. Resources of our border towns have been...

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Semite-Palestine history traced for centuries

Anti-Semitism? Bah! Humbug! Do you know, dear reader, that there are two kinds of Jews? They are the Sephardim, the western European Jews, and the Ashkenazim, the eastern European, Yiddish-speaking Jews. None of them, however, is ethnically Semitic; none of them sprang from the seed of Father Abraham, their belief...

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Lose-lose proposition in U.S.-China war

China, Part 2: China has been shipping the ingredients needed to manufacture fentanyl to Mexico, where the drug is then manufactured and distributed. There is a fentanyl epidemic in the United States. One could imagine that, by getting Americans hooked on this drug, the U.S. would not have the time...

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Amtrak trip St. Louis to Chicago quicker with track help

By Andrew Adams A trip from St. Louis to Chicago through Amtrak’s Lincoln Service became 15 minutes quicker starting last week due to track upgrades that allow for increased speeds. The Amtrak line ran its first 110 miles per hour service Monday, June 26 an increase from 90 miles per...

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Over many years, China has evolved and made changes

Ni Hao. That is Mandarin Chinese for hello. Mandarin is the official language of the People’s Republic of China. If the present trend in China’s behavior continues, it may well replace English as the lingua franca of Planet Earth. Imperial China always referred to itself as the “Middle Kingdom,” around...

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Pompeii, Italy, frozen in time, A.D. 79, reveals volcano

Imagine enjoying a light lunch al fresco when a shattering boom roars through the marketplace of Pompeii. The ground around you shakes so violently that your meal of fresh fish and red tomatoes ends up in the street. Inhabitants look to Mount Vesuvius, a massive volcano that rises above the...

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Summer language immersion for students

Aurora University students have returned from a Summer Spanish-language immersion class that included living with resident families. Aurora University Spanish professor Denise Hatcher led 16 advanced-level students to Salamanca, Spain, for the two-week immersion experience in May, Students attended classes at Colegio Delibes in Salamanca. Classmates included students from Italy,...

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Gabrielle and Peter enjoy the 1987 day in Paris

Napoleon III became Emperor in 1852 when the city of Paris was heavily polluted. Parisians were emptying sewage and waste into the streets and into the Seine River. There were no sewers. In 1832 there had been a massive cholera epidemic in which 20,000 residents died. A new city emerged...

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Grandeur zenith of French Versailles at French Revolution

When Louis XIII succeeded as French king in 1610, Versailles was a prosperous hamlet set in an upland valley which was only partially cleared for cultivation. There were 200 residents near this primal woodland. The Latin word vertere means to turn the soil and immortalizes the “hard grind of the...

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Aurora Area Retired Teachers Association (AARTA) collections will help Ukraine

A book-signing, blanket collection, and fundraiser, for Ukraine will be the highlight of the June meeting of Aurora Area Retired Teachers Association (AARTA). The Aurora-based nonprofit social-service group will meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 7, at Gaslite Manor, 2485 Church Road in Aurora. Retired teachers, administrators, support staff members,...

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