Rumours Abound After Zimbabwe Election Results Delay

Is opposition party leader Tsvangirai the new president in Zimbabwe? Is Mugabe giving up power? Are the elections rigged?Four days after the national election in Zimbabwe, none of those questions have been answered, though controversy and rumours are swirling in the African...

How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques

"We hear the same terms bandied about whenever a popular site gets hacked. You know… SQL Injection, cross site scripting, that kind of thing. But what do these things mean? Is hacking really as inaccessible as many of us imagine; a nefarious, impossibly technical twilight...

Teachers' Compulsory Fingerprinting Unease

"Among the first educators expected to comply with the state's new mandatory fingerprinting law, some faculty members at Pillow Elementary School in North Austin are putting up a fight. Nine teachers at Pillow spoke out Wednesday against the new requirement, with seven saying...

GM mice don't fear cats

"Researchers at Tokyo University managed to turn off the receptors in a mouse's brain that react to the scent of its main predator. They wanted to prove that fear is genetically programmed and not, as is commonly...

Four Transplant Recipients Contract H.I.V. from an Organ Donor

"Four Transplant Recipients Contract H.I.V. By DENISE GRADY Published: November 13, 2007 Four transplant recipients in Chicago have contracted H.I.V. from an organ donor, the first known cases of the virus being spread by organ transplants in 22 years, The Chicago Tribune is...

CCTV International: Taliban kills 2nd S Korean hostage

The Afghanistanian Taliban have reportedly executed a hostage from Korea, bringing the situation to an entirely new level.  This is the second hostage killed by the kidnappers leaving 20 other hostages at the...

N Korea`s reactor produced plutonium, not power

U.N. inspectors have verified that North Korea has shut down four more nuclear facilities beyond its sole working reactor, the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Wednesday.This is welcome news.  Especially in light of this report from Zee news... "Seoul,...

Statement by the President

"The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today rejected Lewis Libby's request to remain free on bail while pursuing his appeals for the serious convictions of perjury and obstruction of justice. As a result, Mr. Libby will be required to turn himself over to...

Sri Lanka: Bloggers react to eviction of Tamils in Colombo

This is just in from Reuters on the situation in Columbo, Sri Lanka:" COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the government to stop evicting minority ethnic Tamils from the capital a day...

Germany protest due ahead of G8

The G8 conference will be met by activists from all over Europe as they converge upon Germany in an effort to address issues they feel are ignored in favour of imperialism and leo-liberal abuses.  Hopefully, no one will lose their life this year.  - The...

Video Premiere: War in Iraq -- From "Mission Accomplished" to Mission Impossible

" A striking new video, with famed rapper Steven Connell, confronts Bush and his Iraq war mongers four years after the President declared "Mission Accomplished," in what very well may be the worst military disaster in U.S. history. Tools email EMAIL print PRINT 14...

Brit “Hostage” Drama Pales in Comparison to MI6 and CIA Crimes Against Iran

by Kurt Nimmo"“Perhaps we should get some perspective by imagining how we might react if the Iranians had occupied France and were patrolling the English channel,” runs a post on the UK Telegraph, responding to the capture of 15 British sailors by Iran. Indeed. But I can...

Happy Holi

"007 Happy Holi “Armed and dangerous. This is how Manu could be described with his water pistol” Holi is festival that almost all the kids enjoy and their parents usually are terrified of it, mainly because their kids enjoy it. On his first Holi, Manu was only a few...

Common Ground Common Sense-First Strike?! Sorry seems to be an empty word

"First Strike?!: Sorry seems to be an empty word About a year ago, two professors of political science wrote an article in Foreign Affairs called "The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy" ( see http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060301faes...ar-primacy.html ). The summary reads as...

New system controls computer worms

Score one for the good guys"U.S. scientists have created anti-worm computer technology that can identify and contain "worms" milliseconds after a cyberattack begins. A worm is a type of computer virus that doesn't alter files but resides in active memory and can duplicate...

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