Britain Unveils Terrorism Alert System

Britain faces a severe risk of another terrorist attack, a Cabinet minister said Monday as he unveiled a system for sharing threat assessments with the public for the first time.

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EU Tones Down Criticism of Israel

The shift is subtle but unmistakable. European governments — long accused of being pro-Arab — have toned down criticism of Israel, left in shock by the rise to power of Islamic Hamas which they consider a terrorist outfit.

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NFL Adds Amphetamines to Drug Policy

The NFL has toughened up its drug policy, adding amphetamines to the list of banned performance-enhancers starting this season.

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Italy's New Foreign Minister Affirms Ties

Italy's new leftist governing coalition will follow the rest of Europe in isolating the Hamas-led Palestinian government and also upholds the country's friendship with the United States despite disagreement over Iraq, the foreign minister says.

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Doctors Asked to Monitor Patient Activity

The American Academy of Pediatrics wants to turn children's doctors into activity police, encouraging them to routinely monitor how active patients and even their parents are each day to help conquer obesity.

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Feds May Relax Rules on Endangered Turtles

Federal fish managers are proposing to relax rules designed to protect endangered leatherback sea turtles and allow some fishing off the West Coast under strict government supervision.

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Fishery Bosses Ban Pacific Krill Fishing

They're tiny but live in massive underwater swarms. They make salmon flesh red. Humpback whales eat them by the ton.

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White House Unveils Anti-Drug Policy

The Bush administration on Wednesday unveiled its 2006 anti-drug program, a campaign that encourages more high schools to screen students and urges teens to live above the influence of drugs and peer pressure.

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US officials 'betrayed' CIA agent

From the BBC: A former CIA officer who is suing US Vice-President Dick Cheney and others over the leaking of her identity says the government "betrayed" her trust.

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Silver Threads Among the Gold

I am putting together this generic comment. I hope it is a comment to end all comments. I find it necessary because I keep hearing the same arguments, seeing the same misunderstandings and experiencing the same bitterness just about every day. These disparities are gut wrenching.

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American Education: Public Versus Private Education

I have had a heated debate with Adam Hobson over public and private school efficacy. For the sake of this argument, I will concede the point that private education in America produces better students than public education.

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Memo: Bush made intel fit Iraq policy

Don't forget the Downing Street Memo: A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S.

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Bush told Cheney to discredit diplomat critical of Iraq policy

From the Guardian: President George Bush directed his vice-president, Dick Cheney, to take personal charge of a campaign to discredit a former ambassador who had accused the administration of twisting prewar intelligence on Iraq, it emerged yesterday.

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U.S. losing war on terrorism, experts say

Asked whether the United States is "winning the war on terror," 84 percent said no and 13 percent answered yes.

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Democrats’ new direction: Same as the old direction

House and Senate Democratic leaders held a press conference on June 16 to announce their bold, new policy initiatives in a plan called New Direction.

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How to fight terrorism

A view from a French intellectual:Indeed, here is how one of the Madrid bombers described the psychological preparation to which he had been submitted: his leader “made us watch DVDs showing pictures of war in Iraq, mostly pictures of women and children killed by American and B …

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Media 'dictates paedophile plans'

-- A top police officer has said the government is being "blackmailed" into abandoning any coherent strategy for the management of sex offenders.

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The Learning Curve - Special Education

Special Education is the most often over looked division of the Educational System.

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Looming energy crisis requires new 'Manhattan Project' US scientists

The United States urgently needs an effort similar to the Manhattan Project or NASA's moon mission to confront a looming energy crisis, scientists said at a high-level energy conference here.

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Schools 'too feminine for boys'

Boys are being failed by schools because lessons have become too "feminised" in recent years, an academic is expected to warn.

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Where will the next big terrorist attack take place?

I live in New Jersey and I work in New York City. Not a day goes by that I don't see some kind of reminder about the events of September 11, 2001.

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Required Viewing: Getting The Truth Out And Your Voice Heard

In my never ending quest to know the truth of situations like Iraq, I inevitably come across dozens of movies, documentaries and news articles. I've seeded a few of these, but wanted to make a complete list.

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Reply to the greenhouse sceptics

Greenhouse sceptics argue that the proponents of a human cause of global warming have not made a convincing case. They say we need to understand things better and rule out natural causes before we make costly changes to legislation.

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Top Spy's Story on Pre-War Intel Is Finally Told

The story accompanying the interview by 60 Minutes with a CIA veteran who was the top spy in Europe during the run up to the Iraq war about the administrations determination to go to war and the result of fixing the facts around their policy.

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Illegals Love Mexico and Che

Instead send our troops to hunt the marching felons down, pistol-whip them and rob them. Any women amongst them would get fondled or raped for good measure. THEN our troops would cart these people to the border and dump them back in their home country.

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Critique of US policy in Iraq: on a tightrope 60 feet up without a net

The Bush administration has pushed us all out onto a tightrope in Iraq, 60 feet up and without a net.Juan Cole gives a summary of all aspects of the US occupation and policy in Iraq, and declares them largely a failure.

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27% quota for OBCs approved

Shocking, it may seem despite all the campaign that India has seen, against the proposal for reserving a further proportion of seats in premier institutions for backward classes.

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After 9/11, U.S. policy built on world bases

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China or India?

The first time I got asked that question, my mind jumped, as is its genetic predisposition, to images of sultry Indian beauties and supple Chinese bodies.

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House Republican group seeks to eliminate bilingual ballots

The Boston Globe reports, "A group of House Republicans wants to do away with bilingual ballots and translation assistance at the polls, a reflection of how tensions over immigration are pervading other issues."

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Washington is a War on Drugs Junkie

Mexico has legalized the possession of small amounts of drugs from marijuana to heroin. It will be interesting to see the ramifications of such a policy, as we Americans pay for our War on Drugs in a multitude of ways with absolutely no positive results.

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A nuclear magic bullet for greenhouse

A number of prominent conservationists have recently been quoted in support of nuclear power as a way of decreasing greenhouse emissions. The gravity of the situation is undoubted, but it has led people to grasp at flawed solutions.

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Democrats Try to Use Katrina as G.O.P. Used 9/11

From the seeded article:...New Orleans may well become for Democrats in 2006 and 2008 what New York was for Republicans after the Sept.

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