Reid Blocks Online Predator Bill to Help Obama

"This Congress hasn't accomplished all that much, so you'd think they'd be eager to pass a no-brainer such as bipartisan legislation to protect kids from online predators. You'd be wrong. Last December, the House passed the Securing Adolescents from Exploitation Online Act by...

Barclays 'to get cash infusion from major Japanese bank'

The UK banking sector certainly appears to have been stuck with a lot of sub-prime debt problems."Barclays Plc may be close to securing a 100bn yen (€594m) capital injection from Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. as part of the bank’s efforts to weather the impact...

Food summit may end without declaration of intent

Rather than centering around the controversial issue of biofuels, as was expected, conflict at the emergency food summit in Rome is focused on disagreement between opponents over side issues, such as whether a resolution should condemn US economic danctions on Cuba."ROME...

Zambia: Securing Our Food

"This fascinating article on the Food Security Pack Programme provides a good case for government to expand the agriculture sector and move Zambia to a position that would guarantee food security. Although Zambia's food production has increased in recent years following those...

Ancient woodland to join reserve

A former royal hunting ground for William the Conqueror has been acquired by the Wildlife trust."An ancient woodland in Northamptonshire is to become a nature reserve in a move aimed at preserving rare wildlife. Bluebells,  Wild Service Trees and woodcock are all found...

U.K. Kids Get RFID Chips In School Uniforms

I think this story is best summed up by 'We're treating schoolchildren like we treat our criminals'.Considering police in Canada don't even have the right to fingerprint you, even if you're arrested, this is shocking to me."Ten schoolchildren in the United Kingdom are being...

Australia: Oil a factor in Iraq deployment

Nelson: Oil a factor in Iraq deploymentJuly 5, 2007The Howard Government has today admitted that securing oil supplies is a factor in Australia's continued military involvement in Iraq. Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said today oil was a factor in Australia's contribution to...

Republican Senator Says Bush's Surge Can't Achieve Its Goals

"The White House said no judgment should be made until commander of forces in Iraq, General David Petraeus, issues his report in September. But Lugar said even if Petraeus comes back with a positive report, the point of the surge was to give Iraqi politicians more time to...

Neo Culpa: Now They Tell Us, a Vanity Fair Exclusive

"Neo Culpa As Iraq slips further into chaos, the war's neoconservative boosters have turned sharply on the Bush administration, charging that their grand designs have been undermined by White House incompetence. In a series of exclusive interviews, Richard Perle, Kenneth...

Army Officer Accuses Generals of 'Intellectual and Moral Failures'

"An active-duty Army officer is publishing a blistering attack on U.S. generals, saying they have botched the war in Iraq and misled Congress about the situation there. "America's generals have repeated the mistakes of Vietnam in Iraq," charges Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, an Iraq...

Strategic Thinking about the Muslim Brotherhood by Robert Leiken and Steven B...

"Strategic Thinking about the Muslim Brotherhood by Robert S. Leiken and Steven Brooke 03.23.2007 The Bush Administration has painted itself in a narrow corner in the Middle East, indeed in the entire Muslim world. With a bellyful of enemies and challenges and a slim number...

US Soldier Charged in Killing of Italian Journalist in Iraq

This case has taken quite some time to make it through Italy's court system, but there  is a massive political element to it as well. Whilst a case could be made that the accused was just doing his job, the US Army's cover-up of the incident casts aspersions on their...