Pearl Harbor was no surprise."Day of infamy," indeed.We should never forget any man, woman or child, regardless of religion or ethnic origin, who died under the Third Reich.We should also never forget what FDR did and then covered up – along with 11 U.S. presidents since his administration -Devvy Kidd/WorldNetDaily

Nato ordered its planners yesterday to begin urgently drawing up proposals to help out in Darfur, where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than a million displaced.Nato's 26 ambassadors, meeting in Brussels, approved a request for help from the African Union, the pan-continental organisation, which has 2,600 troops on the ground -Guardian UK

The destruction of the Amazon rainforest reached its highest level for a decade last year, with the equivalent of six football pitches being flattened every day.The destruction was nearly six per cent higher than the previous year, according to figures released by the Brazilian government.Satellite photographs and other data showed that ranchers, soybean farmers and loggers burned and cut down more than 10,000 square miles of rainforest in the 12 months to August 2004 -Telegraph UK

The problem today is that the neo-cons who run Washington, D.C., are not "pro-defense," they are "pro-war." And there is a huge difference.People who are pro-war use war to advance their personal political or economic agendas.To them, war has little to do with self defense and everything to do with self aggrandizement.To those who are engaged in war, the consequences can be nightmarish! -Chuck Baldwin/Gulf 1

Security officials worldwide need to make it possible for people and goods to move quickly, safely and easily, the Homeland Security chief said Thursday.Experts said Michael Chertoff's speech at a think tank marked an important shift in the department's efforts to enlist allies in accomplishing that goal."There are obviously domestic characteristics to terrorism, but in terms of what the public is concerned about and certainly what the department was formed in order to address first and foremost, it is global, radical terrorism," Chertoff said -Washington Post

Canada's minority Liberal government survived a confidence motion by a single vote on Thursday, staving off an immediate election and dampening a political crisis that has rumbled on for months.Prime Minister Paul Martin, badly damaged by a corruption scandal, was saved when an independent legislator chose at the very last moment to back the government over its budget

U.S. and North Korean diplomats held their first face-to-face talks in five months last week amid increasing signs that Pyongyang is taking steps to advance its nuclear weapons program, the White House said on Thursday.The American side used the session on Friday to urge North Korea to return to the long-stalled six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program, White House spokesman Trent Duffy told reporters traveling with President Bush.The North Korean side has yet to respond to the appeal, White House and State Department officials said

The U.S. government on Thursday filed immigration violation charges in a politically sensitive case against a Cuban exile who is wanted by Venezuela to face trial for the bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people in 1976.Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged Luis Posada Carriles with illegal entry -- two months after he sneaked into the United States. Agency officials said Posada would be held without bond and would have an initial hearing in an immigration court in El Paso, Texas, on June 13