washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns:
My mind was on the debt we owe our veterans even before the tragic shootings at Fort Hood. A couple of weeks before Veterans Day, I went down to the National World War II Memorial on the Mall to join Bob and Elizabeth Dole an (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
>> Loach and Menges go to war Ken Loach is making his first film about the Iraq war. Teaming up again with revered cameraman Chris Menges – for the first time on a feature since Kes, in 1969 – Loach is drawing to a close on (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Sick of being portrayed as helpless victims, indigenous peoples are now picking up the camera themselves. And the results, as seen in the Native Spirit film festival, are remarkableCinema's relationship with indigenous tribal (Read More)
NY Post:
Twenty years ago, on Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, as protestors on both sides began chipping away with sledgehammers, picks and hands. But the first crack in the wall appeared two years before that — on June 12, 1987 — (Read More)
NY Post:
We’re about to launch a war on global warming that will involve, like all wars, sacrifice on the part of the citizens in the form of more regulations and higher taxes. But this war is a little different because the leading ad (Read More)
New York Times:
The president has apparently rejected the most extreme choices being discussed on troop levels in the eight-year-old war.
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NEWS.com.au | Federal:
SRI Lankans are using civil war as an excuse to seek asylum abroad, the country's high commissioner to Australia says. (Read More)
LA Times:
The extensive grounds were used as the nation's largest assembly center to house about 19,000 Japanese Americans before they were relocated to camps. A plaque nea (Read More)
Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is wrapping up deliberations on war strategy in Afghanistan and is considering final Pentagon options that include sending about 30,000 more troops, officials said on Saturda (Read More)
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AP Photo The alleged Fort Hood gunman had revealed a hard-line Islamist streak to acquaintances in the Muslim Community Center that he made his mosque. The Daily Beast's Asra Q. Nomani reports.Not lo (Read More)
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Scott Olson / Getty Images As neo-Nazis take to the streets this weekend, officials say their new boldness echoes the homegrown terrorism of the 1990s. James Verini talks to the extremists leading th (Read More)
New York Times:
A sense of dislocation has been shared by veterans returning from war since Homer conjured Odysseus’ inauspicious return some 2,800 years ago.
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New York Times:
Investigators believe that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in the mass shooting at Ford Hood, acted under a welter of emotional, ideological and religious pressures.
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My Father was in World War III was about 30yrs old before we had a conversation about that.He jumped out of aeroplanes as a sapper, a member of the Royal Engineers, of the Parachute Regiment.He went in on D-Day"I never saw an (Read More)
CloudAve:
Styling and ergonomics don’t always go hand in hand. Look at these cool chairs:And look is about all you can do – good luck trying to sit in them for a longer period.But in the case of the latest Mouse War, you have great de (Read More)
NEWS.com.au | Europe:
BRITISH public support for the war in Afghanistan is falling, while more than 40 per cent do not understand why British troops are fighting there, a poll released on Remembrance Sunday showed. (Read More)
World-The Times of India:
On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming — as the commander of a US navy de (Read More)