Japan government may switch from Windows to Linux The Japanese government may replace their Windows computer with Linux, in a move to boost security. Indeed, “Windows security” is a misnomer, as one constantly needs to download updates and patches to…

Uh, oh Iranian hardliners clash with student protesters.  Hundreds of Iranian hardliners clashed with pro-reform students at a demonstration on Monday in the first serious outbreak of violence in 10 days of university protests against a dissident’s death sentence.

All war, all the time If Bush has his way, will will have continual war for the forseeable future. With no thought given to what happens if we encounter obstacles along the way. Or what the blowback will be. And how…

Ayatollah orders reconsideration of scholar’s death sentence. Iran’s supreme religious leader has ordered the country’s chief judge to review a reformist scholar’s death sentence, which has been the cause of Iran’s largest protests in years, a lawyer for the scholar…

Maybe not a walk in the park after all Special Republican Guard: Iraq’s loyal and formidable force. Despite doubts about the overall fighting capability of the Iraqi military, the Pentagon considers Iraq’s Special Republican Guard a formidable combat force willing to…

Catholic Bishop’s statement against an Iraq warThere’s some powerful stuff here. A few paragraphs that particularly impressed me. Based on the facts that are known to us, we continue to find it difficult to justify the resort to war against…

Italy gets tough on crime! Former prime minister gets 24 years for conspiracy to murder.