News: "The vote count was not conducted by state elections officials, but by the private company that sold Georgia the voting machines in the first place, under a strict trade-secrecy contract that made it not only difficult but actually illegal - on pain of stiff criminal penalties - for the state to touch the equipment or examine the proprietary software to ensure the machines worked properly."

BlackBoxVoting.org

The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page: "What we have here is a form of looting"

FirstEnergy customers lose chance to save billions in electricity costs: "The office charged with protecting Ohio utility consumers has destroyed a closely guarded consultant's report that might have saved billions of dollars for customers in FirstEnergy electric territory."

Another day, another impending war, another uranium trading lie. Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | CIA and Pentagon split over uranium intrigue

News: "[T]wo out of three genetically modified crops in the tests may damage the environment."

washingtonpost.com: Spending On Iraq Sets Off Gold Rush Dyncorp mercs get $20,000 per month. Compare that to US military pay.

YellowTimes.org - ''Our newest savior: General Wesley Clark'': The Washington Post reported that during the Kosovo bombing campaign, Clark "would rise out of his seat and slap the table. 'I've got to get the maximum violence out of this campaign -- now!''"

Two years after the US invasion, Afghanis facing unprecedented terror and abuse (by Zafar Bangash) - Media Monitors Network (MMN)
: "A joke making the rounds of Kabul's cafes these days goes something like this: 'What is worse than being ruled by the Taliban? Being liberated by the Americans!'"

Moscow prepared to stage pre-emptive strikes - www.smh.com.au: "the Kremlin has made it clear it is prepared to use pre-emptive strikes against perceived threats and will continue to mobilise Russia's vast nuclear arsenal to deter a new generation of low-level instability on its borders. "

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Theatre of war: "More than 320 US troops have died since America invaded Iraq, but hundreds more have been injured in the line of duty, many so seriously that they will be disabled for life....Major Gordon Olsen is an orthopaedic specialist.... 'Before I came over, watching the news I was rah-rah and here we go,' he says. 'Now I am just thinking, this needs to stop and go away. When talking to my wife at home, you know, people just hear about a few casualties a day and it doesn't sound like a big deal. But when you see a 19-year-old kid with his leg barely hanging on, that one alone is a big deal.' "

Many soldiers, same letter / Front Page -The Olympian: "'When I told him he wrote such a good letter, he said: 'What letter?' '"