War: The Lie Goes On...
The lack of arms controls allows some to profit from the misery of others.•While international attention is focused on the need to control weapons of mass destruction, the trade in conventional weapons continues to operate in a legal and moral vacuum.•More and more countries are

Noam Chomsky: On Israel´s Security Problems and the US Democratic Deficit (Amenesty Magazine, Sept.

Herschel Views Deep-space Pearls On A Cosmic String (ScienceDaily, Oct. 2, 2009; and ESA)
On Sept. 3, Herschel aimed its telescope at a reservoir of cold gas in the constellation of the Southern Cross near the Galactic Plane. As the telescope scanned the sky, the spacecraft’s Spectral and Photometric Imaging REceiver, SPIRE, and Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer, PACS instruments snapped the pictures. The region is located about 60° from the Ga

Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America' (Telegraph.co.uk, 11.09.09)
By Anita Singh, Showbusiness EditorPublished: 4:53PM BST 11 Sep 2009Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin's "struggle between faith and reason" as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie.The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere on Sunday. It has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia.However, US distributors have resolutely passed on a film which will prove hugely divisive in a country where, according

HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH: 1921 - Pankhurst freedom celebrated with tea (A Century in Photo
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