Sir David King, the British government's chief scientific adviser, has been "aggressively targeted by American lobbyists trying to discredit his view that man-made pollution is behind global warming." King said, "You have a group of lobbyists, some of whom are chasing me around the planet. ...

With "regime change" in Iran receiving renewed attention in Congress, "new exiled Iranian opposition groups backed by some of Washington's neoconservatives are springing up in the hope of seeing large doses of U.S. funding," reports the Financial Times.

"Our military commanders and political leaders must be careful that in using language to deceive the enemy, to propagandize or to persuade, they do not obscure their own thinking," warns Michael Keane. "Before the coalition's recent attack on enemy forces in Fallouja, the American commander there changed the rules of engagement from 'capture or kill' to 'kill or capture.' ... And there are the changing names for the enemy in Iraq. U.S.