Ex-Nazi goes on trial in Germany

" A former member of the Nazi SS has gone on trial in Germany charged with the wartime murder of three civilians in the Netherlands. Heinrich Boere, 88, has previously acknowledged shooting dead three people in...

Sri Lankan military maintains fishing restrictions in the north

The Colombo media reported that Sri Lankan government had removed the wartime fishing restrictions. This had come after a fishermen's meeting organized as part of the government's campaign to boost its image.  This meeting was attended by several government officials,...

Wartime troop brain injures could reach 360,000

"WASHINGTON – The number of U.S. troops who have suffered wartime brain injuries may be as high as 360,000 and could cast more attention on such injuries among civilians, Defense Department doctors said Wednesday. The estimate of the number injured — the...

Sri Lankans Ponder Life After Wartime

This war has almost ended.The hard part will next bereconciliation. "Winning the war in one thing, analysts say, but bringing unity to Sri Lanka is another. Unity in Sri Lanka means closing the divide between the...

No Lame Ducker, Bush Didn't Compromise Soul

Bush is the President who keeps on giving!  He related to Fox News White House Correspondent Bret Baer that he Hasn't compromised his soul to be Popular.  This occurs days after he almost ate sole food in...

"This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service..."

LONDON - Britain's National Archives have released documents written in the 70's including a script that was to be broadcast in the event of a nuclear attack.Written by the BBC and the Government of the time, it...

Top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive arrested

OpiinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorStojan Zupljanin, on the run for a few years from the law for atrocious war crimes unimaginable in the ethnic cleansing of Muslim and Croat men, women and children. In...

Concentration camp doctor tops list of 10 most-wanted Nazis

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou have to ask yourself, what constitutes a Mass Murderer? Killing one person, two persons, twelve persons, six million persons, it is all semantics I suppose.Sixty...

Britain used astrology to predict Hitler's plans

Churchill himself didn't believe in astrology, apparently, but many thought Hitler did.  Desperate times called for desperate measuring of stars and celestial points."British spies hired an astrologer during...

Media Coverage of War Casualties Skews to Left

I find it odd how members of the mainstream news media choose to report on matters such as the combat death toll among members of the U.S. military. Instead of focusing on the fact that the number of deaths during the so-called Global War on Terror has been extremely low when...

Al Gore Accepts Nobel Peace Prize

Well, I suppose working this hard to inform people about global warming would lead to some recognition, but a nobel peace prize? Maybe I'm just jealous."Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore said Monday that the...

Colossus cracks codes once more

"For the first time in more than 60 years a Colossus computer will be cracking codes at Bletchley Park. The machine is being put through its paces to mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer. It will be used to crack messages enciphered using the same...

Hiroshima pilot dies aged 92

"The pilot of the US bomber Enola Gay, which in 1945 dropped the first nuclear bomb to be detonated in wartime, died today at the age of 92. Paul Tibbets was in command of the B-29 aircraft, which dropped the five-ton "Little Boy" bomb over Hiroshima as the US tried to end...

Turkey warns US over genocide law

"Turkey has warned the US that bilateral ties will suffer if Washington adopts a bill recognising as genocide the Ottoman empire's killings of Armenians. In a letter to US President George W Bush, Turkish...

Poland U-turn on massacre event

"Poland's president has postponed a ceremony marking a wartime massacre after being accused of manipulating the event for electoral gain. The commemoration of the Katyn massacre will now take place in November, after rather than before, this month's polls. The move reverses...

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