Along with the overt war on global terrorism, the Bush administration has engaged in a covert war on science.

A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.

China holds over one trillion dollars, and Japan almost one trillion, in dollar-denominated assets.

Other countries have lesser but still substantial amounts. As the US dollar is the reserve currency, the entire world’s investment portfolio is over-wei