"Genes Don't Fade"

DU Death Toll Tops 11,000
The death toll from the highly toxic weapons component known as depleted uranium (DU) has reached 11,000 soldiers and the growing scandal may be the reason behind Anthony Principi's departure as secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department.

Genes Don't Fade
The 'markers' in our genes hold the promise of tracing our ancestors and understanding the spread of mankind

Alleged mercenaries bide their time in Harare
A group of 62 suspected mercenaries jailed over an alleged coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea could be released on Tuesday after serving eight months in a maximum security prison in Zimbabwe, their lawyer told reporters.

AU should immediately increase troop in Sudan's darfur-HRW
The African Union should immediately increase the number of troops deployed in Darfur, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to members of the pan-African organization's Peace and Security Council.

Farming schools set up for kids
Over 34 farming schools have been set up in sub-Saharan Africa to help fight Aids orphans, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Monday.

South African health minister says good
nutrition more effective than HIV drugs
South African health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, already the target of protests by AIDS activists for delaying a nationwide antiretroviral treatment program, said this week that good nutrition is better at fighting HIV infection that anti-HIV medications.

Credible election vital in DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo's transitional government still has a long way to go before it will be ready to hold national elections, but a credible vote is possible and registration will begin next month, said UN officials.

SA 'reservists' set for DRC
For the first time since the border war, a company of reserve-force soldiers will be deployed in a foreign country as part of the defence force's troops there.

'Land reform will increase hunger'
Hunger is bound to increase if South Africa's land redistribution policy remains the same, agricultural union TAU SA warned on Monday. "The truth is if land redistribution continues along the path designated by the South African government, hunger will stalk the land," the union said in a statement.

South American, Arab Leaders Hold Summit

Vigilante Man
Vigilantes have always been to the American West what the Ku Klux Klan was to the South: vicious and cowardly bigotry organized into a self-righteous mob. Almost every decade, some sinister group of self-proclaimed patriots mobilizes to repel a new invasion from some subversive threat or other.

Criminals Belong in Prison
The document almost reads like satire. "Bush wanted to remove Saddam," reads the leaked secret British intelligence memo dated 23 July 2002, "through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

US Totalitarian Tendencies exposed
Those who grew up during the peak years of the Cold War are struck by an emerging pattern in US foreign policy. The pattern suggests that throughout those Cold War years, the US projected on the Soviet Union its own intentions and inclinations, accusing the latter of seeking to set up a world government, seeking to spread the Soviet version of communism to every corner of the globe, when in fact it was the US which sought to impose its form of corporate cannibalism on the whole world.

Reality check
As I write this, 1594 American troops have been killed in Iraq. 180 American troops have been slain in Afghanistan. Democracy is on the march…or on the run, as it were.

Much Controversy Over Google's Accelerator