Making an example

News: "The scientific community is still reeling. 'Rather than demonstrating the importance of strict care in the handling of research materials,' wrote the Nobel prizewinners, 'the determination to convict Dr Butler and put him in jail sends a strong message to the scientific community. It says: this 62-year-old man, who voluntarily reported missing material and cooperated with federal investigators, is now being repaid with a ruined career and a personal cost from which he and his family will never recover.' It also says that the next time a scientist misplaces 30 vials of a dangerous pathogen, they're hardly likely to call the FBI."

A Pacifist with veto power?

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | US questions Japan's pacifism

The fall and rise of the intellectual

Note to British youth: Columbus did not defeat the Armada | csmonitor.com

World Movement

News: "Destroying al-Qa'ida alone will not resolve the problem. There is no central command, or a single individual, controlling all the terrorist groups but there is a central ideology - the destruction of the democratic and secular world. Al-Qa'ida should not be perceived as an organisation, but as a world movement."

And this is why the world's only super power, with a military built around the prosecution of war against strategic target will not win its war on terror. Nor will the 'world movement' destroy democracy and secularism.

Violence is of the old paradigm.

Sooner or later people around the world will awaken to the new paradigm.

A threat to democracy

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | A threat to democracy