en_gbhttp://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=1&category=137&article=1576Message to visitors:TheOtherNews.com is currently undergoing a major revamp of the site and will not be publishing news while in development. Please come back in a few weeks to discover the fantastic improvements which will enable up-to-the-minute news capability from a greatly expanded network of trustworthy, non-mainstream news sources.5/28/2008 9:43:13 AMhttp://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=1&category=137&article=1576http://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=8&category=140&article=1574The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just turned five years old. It seems like it was born just yesterday.The department's growing pains have made it a slow learner and a downright ugly child. Born in an atmosphere of tension and fear, and cobbled together from pieces of other government departments and agencies, the prospects for this Frankenstein offspring were always dim.3/15/2008 3:18:09 PMhttp://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=8&category=140&article=1574http://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=8&category=140&article=1554Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer—except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.—George Orwell, Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer—except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.—George Orwell, 9/22/2007 5:09:22 PMhttp://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=1&category=137&article=1519http://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=1&category=138&article=1517Three anti-war activists were arrested in front of the White House today after the U.S. Park Police moved to suppress a press conference called to protest the fines and threats against the ANSWER Coalition for putting up anti-war posters promoting the September 15 March and Die-In in Washington DC.9/6/2007 6:17:06 PMhttp://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=1&category=138&article=1517http://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=8&category=140&article=1486When U.S. government officials and foreign policy pundits discuss terrorism, they usually focus on the characteristics, personnel, history, tactics, targets, objectives and effects of terrorist organizations. They rarely talk about motives.To fully understand Islamic terrorism, one needs to understand what triggers this extraordinary rage.7/4/2007 7:29:49 AMhttp://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=8&category=140&article=1486http://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=8&category=140&article=1485We finally have tolerably good evidence that Fidel Castro is really alive and at least to some degree recuperating after ten months and several surgeries. The key event was a fifty-minute pre-recorded interview broadcast on Cuban National Television in early June, in which Castro, still clearly weak, aimlessly reminisced and at times appeared a bit incoherent.7/4/2007 7:28:19 AMhttp://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=8&category=140&article=1485http://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=8&category=140&article=1484Twenty-five years ago, in one of history's biggest military blunders, the Argentine military invaded the Falkland Islands (which Argentines call the Islas Malvinas), a self-governing, overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It took British forces just over ten weeks to traverse a third of the globe and rout out the invaders.7/4/2007 7:27:01 AMhttp://www.theothernews.com/article.asp?dept=8&category=140&article=1484