POLITICS: Activists Crawl Through Web to Untangle U.S. Secrecy

To combat the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy, U.S. citizens have been forced to unearth new sources for information they once read in their daily newspapers. But thanks to a few dedicated individuals and not-for-profit groups - and the Internet - such material is easier to come by than ever before.

U.S.: Congress Pushes Penalties for Global Court Support

U.S. allies in the developing South are now being targeted by lawmakers here, who have already meted out punishment to nations that support the new International Criminal Court (ICC).

POLITICS: U.S. Has Zero Credibility Among Muslims – Pentagon Panel

Al-Qaeda and radical Islamists are winning the propaganda war against the United States, says a high-level Pentagon panel, which concluded that Bush administration policies in the Middle East, its fundamental failure to understand the Muslim world and a lack of imagination in using new communications technologies are responsible.

U.S. ELECTION: 59,054,087 ‘Stupid’ – 6,260 Sorry

Thousands of Americans are apologising to the world for the millions of their fellow citizens who voted President George W. Bush back into office Nov. 2.

POLITICS-U.S.: From Plymouth Rock to Baghdad, Iraq

As U.S. families partake of the turkey, yams, and other staples of the traditional Thanksgiving feast Thursday, they are unlikely to reflect on the enduring ideological - as opposed to the gastronomic - influences of that hardy band of Pilgrims that celebrated their first year of survival in the Massachusetts colony on the American continent back in 1621.

POLITICS-U.S.: Pre-emption Denied New Nukes

A cost-conscious U.S. Congress has denied funding to Bush administration projects to develop new nuclear weapons designed to target rogue states or terrorists developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD).