The State of the Union Speech by the President is always anxiously awaited by friend and foe. Some expect to rejoice in the brightness of the speech, if there is any, while others sharpen their hearing to detect comments, phrases and insinuations to More ...

Currently we hear a lot in the news about the voting machines and how they might be used in a fraudulent manner or be hacked by a specific political party in order to achieve victory in elections. How much of this is true and how much is merely a sca More ...

As much as we would all like President Bush's proposed surge in troops to have a positive outcome on the war in Iraq, the chips are very much stacked against us due to circumstances beyond our control. >The National Intelligence Co More ...

This is the fourth and final article in a series recollecting Britain in the 1940's. My uncle, the late Mr Gordon Bessant is telling his memories to Mr Joe Hieatt-Smith. The tapes were made in 1994, not 1996 as previously stated. More ...

In line with his two favorite sports Putin lacerated US uni-polar, global policy with all the precision of a fine swordsman and the theoretical ballast of judo black belt. Chaos Theory helps us to understand why the current uni-polar world More ...

In the future most of the governments of the World will indeed be run by artificially intelligent machines and this scares some people. Recently the Online Think Tank was asked; Can We Trust E-Government, E-Democracy and Government IT Systems of the More ...

Thomas Jefferson requested that on his tombstone he should be remembered for 3 things1. Author of the Declaration of Independence. More ...

The War's beginning? Some would say that World War Two began with Germany's Invasion of Poland on the 1st September 1939 and the ultimatum of Britain that without a German withdrawal a State of War would exist. Needless to say there was no German wit More ...

Congressional Democrats, led by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, succeeded in passing all six pieces of legislation touted in their "First 100 Hours" agenda, and they did so with plenty of time to spare. More ...

>Whatever Bush or Gates' plans are for the future is irrelevant. The surge has been presented as the last US battle. Whatever the outcome, after all they have been through, the Iraq people will not stand for any more projects, plans or promis More ...