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Focuses on 'National Security Strategy of the United States of America,' a formal strategic paper on how U.S. President George W. Bush intends to secure the country. Kinds of evil he wants to destroy; Foreign and domestic criticisms against the national security strategy; Reasons of the executive branch for devising the paper. INSET: George W. Bush: Freedom Fighter.

Analyzes the national security strategy (NSS) of U.S. President George W. Bush and how it could represent the most sweeping shift in U.S. strategy since the Cold War. Bush's equation of terrorists with tyrants as sources of danger; The legal basis for preemptive attacks; The need for hegemony; The issue of removing the causes of terrorism and tyranny; How Bush's NSS differs from its predecessors; Possible sources of weaknesses in the NSS; The search for support from U.S. allies. INSET: Power's Paper Trail.

The author claims that the administration of President George W. Bush sanctioned the use of torture in interrogating Iraqi detainees. So there were WMDs in Iraq after all. They're called digital cameras. Partly because of them, the United States faces one of the most humiliating defeats in imperial history. But there's also a clear paper trail. Not just the long and copiously documented record of US torture, with many of its refinements acquired by the CIA from the Nazis after World War II, but the more recent lineage of encouragement. Within a few days of the Trade Towers going down in September 2001, a vacationing FBI agent told an acquaintance of mine in Puerto Vallarta that detainees in the United States were being tortured. By October of 2001, public opinion here was being softened up for the use of torture. It was not far into the Afghan war that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld made plain his views on prisoners, after horrifying accounts began to surface of the treatment of Taliban POWs. He first said the United States was "not inclined to negotiate surrenders." From spring 2003, the Red Cross was complaining to US Army commanders in Iraq, and later to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in Washington, about frightful treatment of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere.

Comments on newly released papers which show the extent of terrorist warnings to U.S. President George W. Bush's administration before September 11, 2001. Highlights of the classified briefings, written by Richard Clarke, that were sent to then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice; Reluctance of the government to release the documents; Clarke's belief that al-Qaeda was a potent threat, and his call for immediate action; Rice's perception of al-Qaeda as an organisation that was creating problems for U.S. foreign policy; Warnings sent to the administration.

Focuses on a legislation prepared by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to reinstate the military draft to fight against terrorism in 2004. Amount added to the Selective Service System budget to prepare for military conscription; Requirements of the proposed legislation; Information on the National Security Strategy paper issued by Bush on September 20, 2002.

This article focuses on the varying strategies of United States presidential candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry for the nuclear disarmament of North Korea. Unkeen, despite repeated Republican taunts, to reveal the names of the mystery foreign leaders that he has claimed are rooting for him in the election, John Kerry can hardly be pleased with the one endorsement he does appear to have won--from North Korea's boss, Kim Jong Il. Senior Bush people claim Mr Kim would break out the champagne at a Kerry victory, seeing him as a soft touch. Democrats claim the growing North Korean nuclear threat proves that George Bush's high-handed manner with friend and foe alike has made America less safe. Mr Kerry has long said he would deal with the nuclear issue in direct talks, as North Korea has been demanding, rather than through more cumbersome, and so far unsuccessful, six-way talks that also include South Korea, Japan, China and Russia. But there are few illusions, even among Democrats, that there is an easy deal to be had. Given North Korea's mendacious past, any deal would need tough verification rules to convince Congress that it was worth the paper it was written on.

Comments on several issues related to elections in the U.S. Opinion on the gubernatorial papers of U.S. President George W. Bush and Howard Dean; Record of Bush on national security; Decision of John Ashcroft to recuse himself from the investigation of the Plame affair and to appoint an outside prosecutor to the case.