Jared Diamond, professor of geography at UCLA, received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1998 for Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Science. His most recent book is Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2004).

Professor Diamond argues that religion has encompassed at least four independent components that have arisen or disappeared at different stages of development of human societies over the last 10,000 years.

Evidence of Revision whose purpose is to present the publicly unavailable and even suppressed historical audio, video and film recordings largely unseen by the American and world public relating to the assassination of the Kennedy brothers, the little known classified “Black Ops” actually used to intentionally create the massive war in Viet Nam, the CIA “mind control” programs and their involvement in the RFK assassination and the Jonestown massacre and other important truths of our post-modern time. The U.S. Government’s Orwellian “Office of Public Diplomacy” has been in existence in various forms and under various names since World War ONE. The union of American governance and American corporate interests began in Abraham Lincoln’s day and the massaging of “public truth” began even before the Roman Empire. The more you know about “real history” versus “official history”, the better equipped you are to see behind the lies of our times, even as they are told to you. Evidence of Revision sweeps “official truth” into the dustbin of history as it may be revised even as it is being written.

In the mid 1980s, scientists unlocked the genetic keys to manipulating our world. Suddenly everything seemed possible! There would be no more hunger or malnutrition; diseases would be vanquished and poverty wiped out. But twenty years on the situation looks very different. From the loss of biodiversity to health scares about GM food, the effects of genetic technology are prompting more and more debate. Our documentary this week is an intelligent look at both sides of the issue.

Four thousand U.S. servicemen and women have now died in the Iraq war. But many of those who live to return home, still have a whole different set of battles to fight. Apart from headaches, vertigo, troubled sleep and sight problems, many suffer serious psychological effects.

Critics say worst of all – sickened soldiers face several obstacles in getting diagnosed or treatment for their health problems.

“Many soldiers go through depression, shock and other disorders. And it’s a crime that they don’t get sufficient and reliable medical treatment that the army should provide for them. And when they return home, they go suffer again – but this time from unemployment, problems with accommodations and from insults,” said Martin Smith from Veterans Against the War and Occupation of Iraq.

Sometimes, sick soldiers take matters into their own hands. Military reports indicate the suicide rate among army soldiers last year is the highest for twenty-six years.

Some blame the rising number on a lack of specialised mental clinics equipped to treat servicemen and women in dire medical need.

With 153 hospitals and 700 odd community-based clinics, the U.S. Veterans’ Affairs department plans to open an additional 14 out-patient clinics this year. Officials say the move would provide easier access for soldiers.

But the fragile health state among thousands of U.S troops is prompting many soldiers at home to do an about face, calling for an end to the war they once fought.

In a speech last week, U.S. President George W. Bush said the U.S was on track for victory in Iraq and troop withdrawal of some 160,000 soldiers was not an option.

Military analyst Evgeny Khrushchev calls Bush’s words empty rhetoric, pointing to his notorious ‘mission accomplished’ speech in May 2003.

“If the mission is accomplished what are American forces are doing in Iraq? The reason that was given to them was completely false. General American public has all the reasons to expect that the situation will get even worse,” Khrushchev said.