(CNN) -- Although Congress is unlikely to follow calls from a top Democrat to bring back the military draft, the United States does have a plan, if necessary, aimed at inducting millions of young men for service.
The Selective Service System, an agency independent of the Defense Department, says it's ready to respond quickly to any crisis that would threaten to overwhelm the current all-volunteer military.
"We're the fire department," said spokesman Pat Schuback at ... (more)
Charles Rangel's bill to re-introduce the draft has few supporters but his insistent efforts to keep this issue in the body politic is allied to an underlying framework that provides for a rapid and extensive implementation of conscription, be it on the continent or within the 4th Reich of America in the form of Homeland Security Gestapo squads.
Though influential Democrats like Nancy Pelosi have publicly shot down any chance of the draft returning to America... (more)
Tony Blair has unveiled plans to introduce nearly 80 “Supernannies” to help parents tame unruly children.
Up to £4 million is to be spent on creating a network of experts in a bid to tackle the roots of anti-social behaviour, according to the Prime Minister.
advertisementUnder the measures, courts will also be encouraged to order compulsory lessons in a wider number of cases, while classes may also be given to parents whose children have engaged in... (more)
The Israel Defense Forces discovered that there had been "irregularities" in the use of cluster munitions, even before the end of the recent Lebanon war, sources in the defense minister's office said Monday. As a result of this information, Defense Minister Amir Peretz ordered an "extensive inquiry" into the use of these munitions before the war's end.
Meanwhile, for the first time Monday, the IDF admitted targeting populated areas with cluster munitions. In a statement released b... (more)
Half of all GPs will consider refusing to put patient records automatically on to a new national database in defiance of the government, a survey finds.
The Guardian newspaper poll of 1,026 GPs and hospital doctors found many doubted the security of the new system.
Four out of five thought the confidentiality of their patients' records would be at risk.
The government hopes the new database will store medical information ... (more)
Those who want a chilling account of a killer who slipped through the hands of a daft justice system shouldn't bother to read the tripe now being peddled by O.J. Simpson.
As a murderer, his record of terror just can't compare with Ali Mohamed.
How the al-Qaida superspy manipulated FBI intelligence watchdogs, as well as one of America's most respected U.S. attorneys, is a chilling bedtime story. Those few people who still believe the West has ... (more)
When I first said "hello" to Kevin Barrett, I was somewhat taken aback. The tall, bearded lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was seeing students in his office and struck me as soft-spoken, almost laid-back. He just didn't "seem" controversial.
But there is no doubt he has attracted a fair amount of controversy. Sixty-one Wisconsin legislators have said he should stop teaching. So has the governor. The university has received more than one thousa... (more)
On his recent trip to Vietnam, President Bush explained the lessons the United States learned in its war with Vietnam by asserting that "we'll succeed unless we quit."
Keith Olbermann says in his latest "Special Comment" on MSNBC's Countdown, "If that's the lesson about Iraq that Mr. Bush sees in Vietnam, then he needs a tutor, or we need somebody else making the decisions about Iraq."
In a September 19 speech to the United Nations, President Bush had a message for the Iraqi people:
To the people of Iraq: Nearly 12 million of you braved the car bombers and assassins last December to vote in free elections. The world saw you hold up purple ink-stained fingers, and your courage filled us with admiration. You’ve stood firm in the face of horrendous acts of terror and sectarian violence — and we will not abandon you in your str... (more)
JERUSALEM, Nov. 21 -- An Israeli advocacy group has found that 39 percent of the land used by Jewish settlements in the West Bank is private Palestinian property, which the organization contends is a violation of international and Israeli law guaranteeing property rights in the occupied territories.
In a report released here Tuesday, the Settlement Watch project of Peace Now also disclosed that much of the land that Israeli officials have said would remain part of the Jewish state... (more)
It may not be called the Soviet Union anymore, however its leadership is infested with old school Russian thugs and KGB criminals. As the London Guardian reports, the poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in a London restaurant is the latest in a line of attacks on the Kremlin's opponents abroad. The "defectors" who have fled the criminality and now speak out against... (more)
The UCLA police officer videotaped last week using a Taser gun on a student also shot a homeless man at a campus study hall room three years ago and was earlier recommended for dismissal in connection with an alleged assault on fraternity row, authorities said.
UCLA police confirmed late Monday that the officer who fired the Taser gun was Terrence Duren, who has served in the university's Police Department for 18 years.
Duren, who was named officer of the year in 20... (more)
A Belgian historian, Siegfried Verbeke, who denies that the Holocaust ever happened, has been put behind bars.
According to "Flandersnews" website Wednesday, Verbeke was detained by police in the city of Kortrijk and taken to jail.
Verbeke was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and fined 2,500 euros by the Court of Appeals in Antwerp for distribution of literature denying the Holocaust last year.
Verbeke, who runs a website on Holocaust denial, w... (more)
The three-day disappearance of a Vance County native and U.S. Air Force major stationed in Kyrgyzstan ended happily when Jill Metzger turned up safe on Sept. 8.
But it's not yet clear whether Metzger and her loved ones will live happily ever after following an experience a relative described as a traumatic, torture-filled kidnapping.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Air Force Office of Special Investigations are jointly looking into Metzger's disappearance, w... (more)
WASHINGTON -- The 109th Congress is drawing to an end, but that doesn't mean supporters of civil liberties and a free, open Internet can breathe easy. Several bills that threaten core civil liberties and privacy protections remain very much in play in the waning days of the lame-duck Congress. Defenders of those values must remain vigilant to ensure that these misguided measures don't find their way into the large legislative packages likely to be approved before lawmak... (more)
