By Richard Edwards | The Telegraph | Jun. 25, 2008
A schoolboy aged 12 has been identified as an al-Qaeda inspired extremist after sending beheading videos to his classmates, police have disclosed. Anti-terrorism chiefs have said the example revealed how violent extremism is spreading “like a virus infecting young minds”.

By Chris Mooney | Wired.com | Jun. 24, 2008
Ken Caldeira, a 25-year-old activist and computer geek. Back then he was paying the rent doing software consulting on Wall Street, but his passion for the environment would eventually lead him to become one of the nation's leading experts on global warming.

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane | Raw Story | Jun. 24, 2008
British civil libertarians are charging that local governments have gone too far in spying on their own people, particularly through the use of surveillance cameras that were intended to foil terrorists.

USAToday | Jun. 23, 2008
The U.S. general who led the Army's investigation of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal says the Bush administration "has committed war crimes" as a result of what happened to detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay "when the Commander-in-Chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture."

By Muhammad Sahimi | AntiWar.com | Jun. 24, 2008
No part of the world, not even the United States, has been more deeply affected by George W. Bush's presidency than the Middle East. From the lofty goals of starting a "democratic revolution," making a "new Middle East," and helping the Palestinians to have their own independent state, to the bogus "war on terror," invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and meddling in Lebanon, Bush's Middle East policy has been simply one disaster after another.

By Tim Jones | Chicago Tribune | Jun. 24, 2008
The great American assault on tooth decay began here 63 years ago, earning Grand Rapids a special place in the annals of dental history: the first city in the world to fluoridate its public water system.

By Richard Lardner | The Huffington Post | Jun. 23, 2008
The Army's march to overhaul its tarnished contracting system has been slowed by an unlikely foe: the White House. The Office of Management and Budget, President Bush's administrative arm, has shot down a service plan to add five active-duty generals who would oversee purchasing and monitor contractor performance.

BBC | Jun. 23, 2008
An aide to Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has said he regrets telling a reporter that a terror attack on the US would be "an advantage".

By Tony Platt | truthdig.org | Jun. 23, 2008
The 1942 U.S. Supreme Court case of Skinner v. Oklahoma is remembered for protecting “the right to have offspring,” and by implication the right not to have offspring. Skinner, according to Victoria Nourse, the author of an important new book on American eugenics, typically “sits in the shadow of the abortion and gay marriage debates.”

By Paul Davenport  | The Associated Press | Jun. 17, 2008
Gov. Janet Napolitano signed a bill Tuesday making Arizona the latest state to refuse to implement new "Real ID" security standards mandated by the federal government for driver's licenses.

By Bei Hu | Bloomberg | Jun. 23, 2008
Gold prices may rise to $5,000 an ounce as investors seek to protect themselves against accelerating inflation, said Schroder Investment Management Ltd., which oversees $277 billion of assets globally.

By Kurt Nimo | Infowars.com | Jun, 23, 2008
It is obvious watching the BBC’s trailer of its "The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 - The Third Tower," set to air on Sunday, 6 July, that "Auntie Beeb" will attempt to make it appear Building 7 at the WTC complex came down as a result of fire (see trailer below). In other words, it appears the BBC will push — and defend — the government explanation hastily cooked up after attention was focused on the mysterious collapse by researchers, a collapse diligently ignored by the 9/11 Commission in its final report, or that is to say its final whitewas

By Andrew McLemore | RawStory.com | Jun. 22, 2008
President Bush is more likely to attack Iran if he thinks Senator Barack Obama may be elected, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol told FOX News Sunday morning.

By Sebastiam Abbot | topix.com | Jun. 23, 2008
Facing strong U.S. pressure and global dismay over oil prices, Saudi Arabia said Sunday it will produce more crude this year if the market needs it. But the vague pledge fell far short of U.S. hopes for a specific increase and may do little to lower prices immediately.

By Steven Lendman| Intellegence Daily | Jun. 23, 2008
Rupert Murdoch has a corrosive effect on whatever he touches, and this writer once tangled with him in an article called Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdoch Empire. Former Chicago columnist Mike Royko also did and remarked that "no self-respecting fish would (want to be) wrapped in a Murdock paper....His goal (isn't) quality journalism (it's) vast power, political power."