"For much of the American public, the history of Peoples Temple began and ended on one day: November 18, 1978. While there are notable exceptions to that statement – the San Francisco Bay Area being the most obvious, as well as Indianapolis, Indiana, and Redwood Valley and Los Angeles, California, other places where the Temple had churches and congregations along the way – the fact is that Peoples Temple did not exist for most Americans until the news wires crackled with the stories of the assassination of a U.S. Co..."

"An international organisation exists which appears to be solely concerned with debunking and ridiculing the work of others. This organisation is CSICOP - The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. It was formed in 1976 by Professor Paul Kurtz as a breakaway group from the American Humanist Association. Paul Kurtz, born in 1925, is now retired as a philosophy lecturer at New York University. Politically, he is a Social Democrat, part of the American Non-Communist Left through which ..."

" "To most people war is a supreme evil among human events, to be avoided if at all possible. And yet, we go right on having wars. To those who rule nations, war is a tool of power which is used deliberately. War can be used for external reasons, such as to increase the geographical extent of a nation's power. More importantly, war provides the perfect excuse for a government to impose increased controls on its own people. By citing "national security" the government can persuade the people that even highly dictator..."

"John Poindexter, head of the Pentagon's Office of Information Awareness, is developing a vast surveillance database to track terror suspects. The Total Information Awareness (TIA) system will, according to Poindexter, "break down the stovepipes" that separate commercial and government databases, allowing OIA access to citizens' credit card purchases, travel itineraries, telephone calling records, email, medical histories and financial information. It would give government the power to generate a comprehensive data ..."

"Those who advocate for peace in a world where war remains such a profitable enterprise often have difficulty finding reasons to celebrate. With the annual global war budget gobbling up a trillion dollars (and with politicians struggling to maintain cheerfully compassionate ways of saying 'sorry, the cupboard is bare' when it comes to funding to eliminate malaria, malnutrition, and AIDS, among many social crises), it's easy to understand the occasionally glum faces one might find in peace groups. But there are co..."

"The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) is a helicopter unit whose sole purpose is to deliver and pick-up Special Operations commandos at the site of the intended hit. It is based in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, and Panama (Army Times, July 10, 1995). It was almost certainly this regiment that flew the black helicopters over Mt. Carmel on February 28, strafing the women's and children's quarters with machine gun fire. ..."

"The connections between President Bush and Halliburton's Kellogg, Brown and Root are affirmed by ...business records of the Brown & Root firm and Brown Shipbuilding Co., relating in particular to building projects and joint ventures with other companies such as Zapata Offshore found in the executive files of George R. Brown at the Fondren Library of Rice University. ..."