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America's Second War of Independence Wall Street Journal First, the war seems to have changed nothing. The end of the conflict seemed simply to return the parties to the status quo ante bellum. Second, the American armed forces did not acquit themselves well. Only the performance by Army regulars under ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Remembering Inouye, who fought war and discrimination MSNBC Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, who died earlier this week at the age of 88, was not a well-known politician in comparison to many of his colleagues in the Senate. But his reputation was unsurpassed among those who worked with him and knew him. See all stories on this topic »

'War Z' Uses Images Taken From AMC's 'The Walking Dead' Forbes The War Z controversy continues even after the game was pulled from Steam—and that's a good thing. Well the War Z scandal continues to deepen, even though the game has been at least temporarily removed from Steam. The question now becomes: Will ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Hagel is Barack Obama–with a war record MSNBC President Obama is a conviction politician. That means he stands for things, runs for office to accomplish things. He believed in healthcare and got it done. He opposed "unnecessary wars." He now is being attacked for considering for Secretary of ... See all stories on this topic »

Bangladesh War-Crime Tribunal Bogs Down Wall Street Journal Bangladesh's government is facing mounting pressure from opposition parties and human-rights groups over alleged political interference at a war-crimes tribunal intended to heal four-decade-old rifts. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government set up ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Indefinite detention: Echoes of World War II internment San Francisco Chronicle In awarding a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to Gordon Hirabayashi in May, President Obama spoke of the courage of the University of Washington student who refused an executive order to be among the 120,000 Japanese Americans sent to ... See all stories on this topic » San Francisco Chronicle

Marines: Purported Iraq War vet guarding Central Valley school didn't actually ... San Jose Mercury News Former Marine guards Calif. school. HUGHSON, Calif. -- A former Marine applauded for voluntarily showing up to guard a central California elementary school apparently misrepresented his service history. Craig Pusley showed up for a second day of guard ... See all stories on this topic »

Long After War, Moral Questions Linger New York Times (blog) Vietnam veterans bitterly remind anyone who will listen that there was a time when an ambivalent public had not yet learned how to separate feelings about an unpopular war from the warriors who were fighting it. I still remember a little girl pointing ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times (blog)

Apple's Billion-Dollar Patent Rejected But The War Is Not Over Forbes In litigation with Samsung, Apple declared its Patent No. 7,844,915 as the most commercially valuable of the three multi-touch patents that Samsung was accused of violating. In my view, this patent is absolutely necessary for Apple's pinch-to-zoom ... See all stories on this topic »

Angelina Jolie set to direct second world war drama The Guardian As Ang Lee's Life of Pi opens in the UK, news emerges of another man/raft/ocean film in the works. Unbroken is based on real-life story of Olympian and air force officer Louis Zamperini, who survived on a raft for 47 days after a plane crash during the ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Currency War Looms as Central Banks Talk Forex: Cutting Research Bloomberg By Simon Kennedy - 2012-12-21T00:00:01Z. Emerging markets may have further reason to complain about perceived currency wars next year as central banks in rich nations become more aggressive in chasing the economic boost of weaker exchange rates. See all stories on this topic »

World War II Medals Stolen in Home Burglary NBC 7 San Diego San Diego County sheriff's detectives are looking for the suspect or suspects responsible for stealing several World War II medals from a veteran's home during a residential burglary in Vista. According to detectives, the war medals were stolen from a ... See all stories on this topic » NBC 7 San Diego

War in Syria: Clashes ease at Damascus Palestinian refugee camp New York Daily News BEIRUT (AP) - Days of intense fighting in a Palestinian refugee camp subsided on Thursday and some of the more than 100,000 residents who fled the violence in the capital Damascus began to trickle back, activists and officials said. In Moscow, Syria's ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

Marine Vet of Iraq War Guards Calif. School ABC News Marine Vet of Iraq War Guards Calif. School. HUGHSON, Calif. December 20, 2012 (AP). VIDEO: Sgt. Craig Pusley stood at Hughson Elementary School so students and parents could. (ABCNEWS.com). A Marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan took up ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News

Can US Win its War on Drugs? Voice of America NEW YORK — About 500,000 Americans today are incarcerated on drug charges. They include non-violent, first-time offenders put behind bars under strict mandatory sentencing laws enacted in the decades-long war on drugs. That war is also being waged ... See all stories on this topic »

Overexposed: A Photographer's War With PTSD The Atlantic Despite a lengthy and distinguished career, Capa is often remembered for his historic photographs of the Allied Forces landing on Omaha Beach in World War II. His proximity to the fight -- riding shoulder-to-shoulder with soldiers as their boats ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic

Polk's Lust for Land Sparked War With Mexico: Lewis Lapham Bloomberg Author Amy Greenberg talks with Lewis Lapham about her book, "A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico." (Source: Bloomberg). Running time 25:10. Audio Download: Polk's Lust for Land Sparked War With Mexico ... See all stories on this topic »

'Fox And Friends' To Santa: Is The War On Christmas Real? (VIDEO) Huffington Post Fox News continued its fight against the so-called "War on Christmas" on Thursday by going straight to the source: Santa Claus. "Fox and Friends" hosted Santa impersonator Sal Lizard to speak out about "political correctness." "You've been around for a ... See all stories on this topic »

The War On Christmas Isn't Over For Bill O'Reilly Media Matters for America (blog) Bill O'Reilly's annual fight against the manufactured "War on Christmas" has become a revered holiday tradition over at Fox News. Just like last year, in December O'Reilly has spent more time on his show discussing the "War on Christmas" than actual ... See all stories on this topic » Media Matters for America (blog)

Putin: Ending Syrian war takes priority over al-Assad's fate CNN "We are advocating the solution that would prevent the collapse of the region and the continuous civil war," Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a televised news conference in Moscow. "Not retain (President Bashar) al-Assad and his regime." To do ... See all stories on this topic »

Lord, Spare Me This Godforsaken Holiday Card! Slate Magazine Every year around this time, you'll hear a chorus of conservatives lament the secularization of Christmas and lash out at efforts to make the holiday season multicultural. In their minds, the war on Christmas has been waged for years in the United States. See all stories on this topic »

Mayan apocalypse party held in cold war Moscow bunker – video The Guardian Mayan apocalypse party held in cold war Moscow bunker – video. Moscow residents snap up $1,000 (£615) tickets for an end of the world party being held in a cold-war era bunker, 56 metres underground, on Friday. According to a controversial theory, the ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Gamer Backlash Against 'The War Z' Prompts Makers To Pull It From Steam Store The Consumerist Selling something that isn't perfect can be okay in some situations. An apple? Just cut the bruise out. Shirt missing a button? Ask for a discount and sew one on. But when it comes to technology and video games, if your product isn't up to snuff, those ... See all stories on this topic »

The War on Columbus Day National Review Online (blog) Christmas isn't the only holiday facing a political-correctness battle: The College Fix reports that the student government at Arizona State University has voted to rename Columbus Day "Indigenous People Day." This is the latest move by those who ... See all stories on this topic »

Spiralling drug war envelops São Paulo Financial Times Ms Silva, a 44-year-old single parent with three children, had become yet another casualty in a war between São Paulo's police officers and a drug trafficking gang known as the Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Command of the Capital). The conflict is ... See all stories on this topic »

The trashy brilliance of Trailer War Chicago Reader (blog) I am a big fan of all kinds of "bad" cinema: big-budget Hollywood disasters, Wingnut Internet conspiracy documentaries, straight-to-video Nigerian morality plays, canine martial arts movies, Nic Cage vehicles, and especially grind house exploitation ... See all stories on this topic » Chicago Reader (blog)

UN: Syrian Civil War Increasingly Sectarian ABC News Syria's civil war is increasingly turning into a sectarian conflict pitting majority Sunni rebels against government forces supported by the country's religious and ethnic minorities, a new U.N. human rights report said Thursday. Sergio Pinheiro, who ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News

Nazis in Italy War Crimes Report Estimates 165 Murders Per Day Spiegel Online That is the horrifying conclusion reached by an historical commission assigned the task of exploring the full extent of Nazi war crimes committed in Italy in World War II. The identity of many of the murderers has long been known, but to this day ... See all stories on this topic » Spiegel Online

Cindy Sheehan on war, peace, social justice, and life as an activist Washington Times One of America's most famous antiwar activists, Sheehan gained widespread notoriety after she launched a series of protests against the Iraq War. This came in the wake of the death of her son, Casey, who was an Army specialist, killed in action outside ... See all stories on this topic » Washington Times

Among Syria's wounded, thousands will need long-term care after war ends ... Washington Post ATMEH, Syria — A baby boy joined the ranks of Syria's tens of thousands of war wounded when a missile fired by Bashar Assad's air force slammed into his family home and shrapnel pierced his skull. Four-month-old Fahed Darwish suffered brain damage ... See all stories on this topic »

The War Z Developer: Valve Was Right to Pull Game Forbes The saga surrounding The War Z on Steam is an ugly one, no doubt. Erik Kain details all the problems surrounding its controversial release on Steam here: allegations of plagiarism, false advertising and lack of oversight are just the beginning. Now ... See all stories on this topic »

Extra, Extra: Pope Starts Twitter War With Beliebers Gothamist ... piercing the first hull but, fortunately, not leaking any oil. The Pope started a war he can't win against Beliebers on Twitter. Buzzfeed has compiled their favorite YouTube comments of 2012. Inception pizza exists: Pizza Hut has created a pizza ... See all stories on this topic »

Korean War veteran finally comes home to Yadkin County Winston-Salem Journal HAMPTONVILLE – The small cemetery behind the Mountain Grove United Methodist church holds a few dozen graves. Brown, Hudspeth and Gardner are prominent among the family names etched on headstones. It's a peaceful, tranquil place on a bright ... See all stories on this topic »

DayZ creator Dean Hall on The War Z fiasco PC Gamer Magazine The War Z's abrupt launch and subsequent removal on Steam prompted a strong reaction from the community over the Foundation Release's strange name, missing features, and misleading Steam description. (The War Z is still buyable on Hammerpoint's ... See all stories on this topic » PC Gamer Magazine

European Commission wades into global tech patents war Yahoo! News (blog) BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU regulators are poised to accuse Samsung of breaking competition rules in filing patent lawsuits against rival Apple, in the EU's first formal challenge to the consumer electronic industry's patent wars. "We will issue a ... See all stories on this topic » Yahoo! News (blog)

Big News: Civil War Trust to Buy Fleetwood Hill, Heart of Brandy Station ... Fredericksburg.com (CULPEPER, Va.) – The Civil War Trust, America's largest nonprofit battlefield preservation group, today announced the that it has secured a contract with a Culpeper County landowner to acquire 61 acres of core battlefield land at Fleetwood Hill on the ... See all stories on this topic »

Bidders set up 4G war rooms to plot tactics Financial Times Game theorists and auction specialists have begun to gather this week in secret "war rooms" from which telecoms groups will compete for a share of Britain's coveted 4G mobile spectrum. The sale of radio frequencies capable of delivering high-speed ... See all stories on this topic »

Simple storytelling comes fully alive in 'War Horse' Chicago Tribune When the National Theatre of Great Britain's majestic, magnificent adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's "War Horse" opened at New York's massive Lincoln Center — on its way to five Tony Awards, sold-out houses, and a 21-month run — one had an ... See all stories on this topic »

War or prosperity? UK announces higher price tag for Afghan war while cutting ... RT Not only does the UK's tax agency skim your salary, but if you disagree with any of the bills it sends, you will have to call a premium phone line – and then hope they pick up. Auditors say the agency wasted £136m ($220m) of taxpayer money in a year. See all stories on this topic »

New weapons in war on obesity Houston Chronicle Having two new drugs on the market doesn't mean the war against obesity is over. They're just two of many new weapons in the fight. "We're finally starting to recognize in our society that obesity is a disease that kills people," said Memorial Hermann ... See all stories on this topic »

UN warns of foreign influx into sectarian Syria war Yahoo! News (blog) BRUSSELS/GENEVA (Reuters) - Fighters from around the world have filtered into Syria to join a civil war that has split along sectarian lines, increasingly pitting the ruling Alawite community against the majority Sunni Muslims, U.N. human rights ... See all stories on this topic » Yahoo! News (blog)

Israel violated laws of war targeting media, civilians in Gaza - HRW RT Israeli army attacks on journalists and media centers in Gaza during last month's military operation violated the laws of war, Human Rights Watch has said. Two Palestinian cameramen were killed and at least 10 media personnel were wounded during the ... See all stories on this topic » RT

World War II veteran in debate with Rockport over water issue WCSH-TV ROCKPORT, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - A World War Two veteran from Rockport is fighting with the town to try to fix a water problem on his land. Town officials say they've looked at it many times, but can't find a problem. 91-year old Lloyd Richards says ... See all stories on this topic »

Judge rejects war vet's PTSD defense in theft case The Virginian-Pilot The Navy officer was tortured by nightmares about firefights that wounded several of his SEAL teammates and soon began drinking heavily to calm his nerves. A month after completing the deployment and returning to Virginia Beach in September 2011, ... See all stories on this topic »

Russian Cold War bunker is turned into luxury nightclub. Tickets are £600, but ... Daily Mail But in Russia, a Cold War-era bunker designed to save Soviet leaders from a nuclear attack is gearing up to host a 24-hour party for those who want to escape the apocalypse. Seeing out the world in style will cost you - partygoers are being charged ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Iraq War veteran in Sacramento State recruiting class Fox News Sacramento, CA – A former member of the United States Marine Corps who was deployed to Iraq is part of the Sacramento State football team's 2013 recruiting class. Offensive lineman Justin Aysse, who played at Long Beach City College, has signed a ... See all stories on this topic »

Concerns Vanuatu could be haven for war criminals Radio Australia Amnesty International has warned that Vanuatu is a potential safe haven for fugitives suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity. A new report by the human rights organisation singles out Vanuatu and the African nations of Sierra Leone and ... See all stories on this topic » Radio Australia

DayZ Creator Addresses The War Z Launch Gamespy.com Lennon's lyrics come to mind when I take a step back and look at the flaming carnage that is The War Z launch. No doubt there are some fine, honest people working hard at Hammerpoint, but there's no getting around this fact: The War Z is a clone of ... See all stories on this topic » Gamespy.com

DJ megabucks war breaking out as contracts surpass $20 million? Las Vegas Sun An apparent war is starting to rage over the arrival of new clubs on the Strip signing megadeals with star DJs at rival nightlife venues. That's the inside word from very reliable and separate nightclub industry insiders with confirmation that Hakkasan ... See all stories on this topic » Las Vegas Sun

Currency war drums beat louder, for growth NDTV The 'currency wars' long deplored by Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega have involved little more than shouting matches so far, but the risk of an outbreak of outright hostilities in 2013 is growing. Thursday's decision by the Bank of Japan to ... See all stories on this topic »

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