Regular daily news tells us how the US is at war, either engaged in bombing other nations or threatening a major all out war with traditional foes—Russia, North Korea, and Iran—yet, there’s not a peep from anti-war movement. Commentator B Nimri Aziz asks: Why the silence?  

Then, we reflect on “martyrdom”—an archaic phrase but a concept we need to think about today, related to so many deaths of innocents.