Guardian Unlimited | World dispatch | 'Its best use is as a doorstop': "The book...takes some of the hoariest old prejudices about black people and applies them to Arabs....According to one professor at a US military college, The Arab Mind is 'probably the single most popular and widely read book on the Arabs in the US military'. It is even used as a textbook for officers at the JFK special warfare school in Fort Bragg....None of the academics I contacted thought the book suitable for serious study, although Georgetown University once invited students to analyse it as 'an example of bad, biased social science'."

Fear in the frame: "The fact that such horrific pictures emerge, day after day, should make us reflect on the deep, brutalising effects this war is having on many otherwise normal people....It is not just Bush, Blair, and Rumsfeld that should go -- it is the whole sickly zeitgeist that they have forced upon the world society that should be excised."

MSNBC - �The War on Terror Is Not Working�: "Our point here is that governments, in their response to these threats from armed groups, have resorted to many of the very same tactics that the armed groups themselves have undertaken. But in the case of the government, it's under the guise of fighting the war on terror or fighting an armed threat. By violating human rights themselves, those governments lend a degree of credibility to the use of those kinds of tactics in the first place."

MoveOn PAC: "George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world.
He promised to 'restore honor and integrity to the White House.' Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest President since Richard Nixon. "

The Sentinel Online - Archived Story: "This administration had no real mandate and they've taken us to the darkest place in our history"

TheStar.com - U.S. war policy 'grave error'

The Law: Who Would Try Civilians of U.S.? No One in Iraq And likely no one anywhere else, either.

News: "The US and British occupation of Iraq has accelerated recruitment to the ranks of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and made the world a less safe place"

How Public is Public Radio?

Joe Bageant: The Covert Kingdom: "Given fundamentalist Christianity's inherent cultural isolation, it is nearly impossible for most enlightened Americans to imagine, in honest human terms, what fundamentalist Americans believe, let alone understand why we should all care."

Newsday.com - World News: "the FBI had launched an investigation into who in the administration had passed the classified material to his Iraqi National Congress."

Report: Nearly 45 Percent of Businesses Near Los Angeles Schools Are Illegally Selling Tobacco to Children

Guardian | US intelligence fears Iran duped hawks into Iraq war: "When the story ultimately comes out we'll see that Iran has run one of the most masterful intelligence operations in history"

nbc4columbus.com - News - Blackwell Asks GOP Party For Householder's Resignation

CBS News | Poll: Iraq Taking Toll On Bush | May 24, 2004�20:28:35

DenverPost.com - NATION/WORLD President Bush has installed more than 100 top officials who were once lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee.

The Washington Monthly: "Why exactly is Ahmed Chalabi hated by so many people? And exactly who is he hated by? Here's an Ahmed Chalabi timeline to help sort it out for you:"

CBS News | Gen. Zinni: 'They've Screwed Up' | May 21, 2004�16:24:19

toledoblade.com: "Subpoenas hint trouble for speaker of House"

toledoblade.com: "vendors that received the extra money paid kickbacks to Mr. Householder and his campaign aides."

toledoblade.com: "vendors that received the extra money paid kickbacks to Mr. Householder and his campaign aides."

Jeffrey St. Clair: When War is Swell, Bush and the Carlyle Group

ORGANIC FOOD FIGHT / Outcry over rule changes that allow more pesticides, hormones

Punishment and Amusement (washingtonpost.com): "'The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.' '"

Destruction Stuns Residents of Gaza (washingtonpost.com): "Israeli military bulldozers have destroyed more than 1,200 houses in the Rafah camp in the past 3 1/2 years, according to the U.N. relief agency. In the past week...450 people were added to the nearly 11,000 already made homeless by the bulldozers."

BW Online | May 31, 2004 | The Other U.S. Military: "The private contractor biz is hot, vast, and largely unregulated. Is it out of control?"

Talk on Hill heated about DeWine staffer's blog' of sexual trysts: "'Most of my living expenses are thankfully subsidized by a few generous older gentlemen,' wrote the staffer, who identified herself as 'The Washingtonienne.' 'I'm sure I am not the only one who makes money on the side this way: how can anybody live on $25K/year??' "

The New York Times > Washington > Material Given to Congress in 2002 Is Now Classified: "Families of the Sept. 11 victims - who are suing numerous corporate and Saudi interests whom they accuse of having links to the attacks - have sought to depose her as a witness, but the Justice Department has blocked the move by saying her testimony would violate 'the state secret privilege.'"

The Lost Washingtonienne (WONKETTE EXCLUSIVE, ETC., ETC.) Ohio republican Mike Dewine staffer blogs beltway sexcapades.

FAIR MEDIA ADVISORY: Campaign Double Standards

USATODAY.com - Get U.S. military out of Iraq

Military force trained for war, not restraint: "Last year, the US paid out £907,000 after a wave of negligence and wrongful death claims filed against American soldiers in Iraq. The US military confirmed that, up to November, 10,402 claims had been filed. There have been many more since."
Your tax dollars at work.

The Village Voice: Features: The Jesus Landing Pad by Rick Perlstein

Guardian | Hostilities force Bush into deep hole: "US forces appeared to have been sucked in by the insurgents' strategy: fighting back, killing civilians and in turn strengthening the rebels' support base"

Le Monde.fr : Pour services rendus en Irak, le trafiquant Viktor Bout décroche l'aide des Etats-Unis Notorious arms dealer gets a pass. This site describes and links to the Financial Times story. Sen. Russ Feingold wants answers, but Wolfowitz and Armitage aren't giving them. Frontline profiles Bout in May, 2002. I don't suppose someone like Bout would have access to shells laced with just a little bit of sarin.

MSNBC - Memos Reveal War Crimes Warnings

sacbee.com -- Opinion -- Atrocities in Iraq: 'I killed innocent people for our government' : "[My commanding officer] came up to me and says: 'Are you OK?' I said: 'No, today is not a good day. We killed a bunch of civilians.' He goes: 'No, today was a good day.'"

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: What the U.S. jobless rolls don't tell you

The New York Times > New York Region > 9/11 Tape Has Late Change on Evacuation: "Most tall buildings in the United States, including those at the trade center, were not designed for complete evacuation during a crisis...because staircases reduce the amount of rentable floor space."

Down but Not Out, Kucinich
Keeps Fighting

ACLU Was Forced To Revise Release On Patriot Act Suit (washingtonpost.com): "The second paragraph read: 'The provision under challenge allows an FBI agent to write a letter demanding the disclosure of the name, screen names, addresses, e-mail header information, and other sensitive information held by 'electronic communication service providers.' '
Justice lawyers said that both paragraphs violated a secrecy order."

Yahoo! News - FT says Bush should fire Rumsfeld over Iraqi prisoner scandal: "The world is too complex and dangerous for the pious simplicities and arrogant unilateralism of George W. Bush"

Yahoo! News - Congress Toughens War Oversight Role: "Since declaring a war on terror after Sept. 11, the Bush administration has enjoyed an almost complete absence of oversight hearings on White House conduct of the war."

Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate | BaltimoreChronicle.com "The most significant information that we were receiving did not come from counter-terrorism investigations, and I want to emphasize this. It came from counter-intelligence, and certain criminal investigations, and issues that have to do with money laundering operations."

Army Times - News - More News "This was not just a failure of leadership at the local command level. This was a failure that ran straight to the top. Accountability here is essential — even if that means relieving top leaders from duty in a time of war."

Media Beat: This War and Racism -- Media Denial in Overdrive

Dissension Grows In Senior Ranks On War Strategy (washingtonpost.com): "senior officers beginning to say that the United States faces the prospect of casualties for years without achieving its goal of establishing a free and democratic Iraq. "

Fair Use Press

IPA News Release: The Anti-War Origins of Mother's Day

People For the American Way | FDA Ruling Means More Abortions, Less Safety For American Women

The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Editorials: "Here's the result of the latest compassionate rule change from the Bush administration"

Guardian Unlimited | Cartoons

RollingStone.com: "election officials all over the country are erecting illegal barriers to keep young voters from casting ballots"

FAA Managers Destroyed 9/11 Tapes (washingtonpost.com)

The bad barrels that corrupt any good apples they touch: "Philip Zimbardo, a leader of the Stanford prison study, said that while the rest of the world was shocked by the images from Iraq, he was not surprised. 'I have exact, parallel pictures of prisoners with bags over their heads [from the 1971 study],' he said....At Stanford and in Iraq, he added, 'It's not that we put bad apples in a good barrel. We put good apples in a bad barrel. The barrel corrupts anything that it touches.' "

Yahoo! News - Bush Asks Congress for $25B for Iraq War: "Bush 'has not been told that there is a resource problem,' said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity."

Contractors Implicated in Prison Abuse Remain on the Job: "More than two months after a classified Army report found that two contract workers were implicated in the abuse of Iraqis at a prison outside Baghdad, the companies that employ them say that they have heard nothing from the Pentagon, and that they have not removed any employees from Iraq."

Letter to President Bush from Former U.S. Diplomats - Independent Media TV

The Village Voice: Cartoons: Sutton Impact: Widdle Baby Pwesident by Ward Sutton

Cheney Praises Fox News Channel (washingtonpost.com) "It is unusual for a president or vice president to single out a commercial enterprise for public praise."

Forbes, September 2003 Now Hear This
"Marketers have always dreamed of whispering into the ears of individual shoppers as they mill around the aisles and inch along checkout lanes.
"An HSS emitter can put a message to a single person standing in a crowd 200 feet away, without anyone on either side able to hear it. Motion-sensitive HSS emitters can flog Doritos on one end of the snack aisle and hawk Cracker Jack on the other."

OECD Observer: Climate change: The challenge continues: "Worldwide economic losses due to natural disasters increased from about US$40 billion per year in the 1990s to US$60 billion in 2003"

EditorandPublisher.com - Information Authority for the Newspaper Industry: "Hiding the death and destruction of this war does not make it easier on anyone except those who want to keep the truth away from the people"

The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page: "a doctrine that makes the United States a sort of elected dictatorship: a system in which the president, once in office, can do whatever he likes, and isn't obliged to consult or inform either Congress or the public"

News: "Lawyers try to gag FBI worker over 9/11"

American attitudes: Program on International Policy Attitudes Americans Continue to Believe Iraq Supported Al Qaeda, Had WMD

Kucinich Campaign A decision yesterday by the eight-member California Voting Systems and Procedures Panel that 15,000 electronic voting machines in four counties be banned in the November election because of “glitches” in the March primary election “is more than enough evidence that these systems could undermine the integrity and affect the results of November’s general election,” Kucinich said.

WorkingForChange-This Modern World: Actionable Intelligence ...and the rest is history.

Paychecks Spur Workers to Take Iraqi Jobs (washingtonpost.com): "Iraq, with its six-figure, tax-free salaries, was too good to pass up. Each of the dead men, court records show, had previously filed for bankruptcy." And some of them were just truck drivers.

From the White House, With Silence (washingtonpost.com): "It may come as a surprise to some that the Kremlin, symbol of secrecy and repression, has become more transparent than the White House, symbol of freedom and democracy."

Yahoo! News - Report: Thousands Dead or Injured in N.Korea Rail Blast: "There were rumors the fuel was a gift from China to Kim and his energy-starved country, Yonhap said.
Ryongchon is transliterated as Yongchon in South Korea and appears that way on most maps in the West.
Yonhap also quoted a senior Defense Ministry official as saying the South's military -- which eavesdrops on North Korea -- had heard about the blast through 'intelligence channels directed against the North.'
There was no immediate suggestion the blast was anything other than an accident.
But the explosion came after Kim met China's new leadership during a rare foreign visit to discuss the North's nuclear weapons plans, tentative economic reforms and aid that has in the past included fuel. "
Smells like Cheney spirit.

President Owes America Answers on Iraq: "If the President ... made the decision to wage war against Iraq and secretly spent appropriated funds to prepare for that war without prior consultation with Congress, then the letter of the law, the intent of the law, and the Constitutional power of the purse, have been subverted."

IDIOT SON OF AN A**HOLE-AND HE'S OUR PRESIDENT!!!

Take Back The Media! Flash Animation "Condoliesa"

Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld Comment (washingtonpost.com)

With God on His Side...By Invoking a Higher Power, Bush Sidesteps Pesky Constitutional Issues No wonder George W. Bush could lie to Congress and the American public with such impunity while keeping the key members of his Cabinet in the dark.

Guardian Unlimited Travel | News | Chek-in times to US may hit five hours: "Information being obtained includes details about which passengers have requested kosher or halal meals."

News Release, Bush-Cheney 2000 To Pay $90,000 Civil Penalty for Failing To Disclose Recount Activity What will their fine be this time?

Bush Began to Plan War Three Months After 9/11 (washingtonpost.com): "Powell felt Cheney and his allies -- his chief aide, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby; Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz; and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith and what Powell called Feith's 'Gestapo' office -- had established what amounted to a separate government."

The Daytona Beach News-Journal: "A 2001 report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found that, statewide, blacks were 10 times as likely to have their votes rejected at the polls and that black voters' ballots were disproportionately rejected in Florida's 2000 presidential elections. Some of those rejections, they suggested, violated the Voting Rights Act."

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Military -- General assails U.S. policy on Iraq: "Known as the 'Warrior Diplomat,' Zinni is not a peace activist by nature "

Newsday.com - Opinion: "Many Palestinians saw Sheik Yassin's murder as a deliberate attempt by the Israeli government to stimulate terrorist attacks that would distract international attention from Sharon's land grab in the West Bank."

HoustonChronicle.com - Europe wary of U.S. policy shift

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States From pdf file "Staff Statement No. 10": In April and May 2001 the drumbeat of reporting increased. Articles presented to top officials contained headlines such as: "Bin Ladin planning multiple operations." "Bin Ladin public profile may presage attack." "Bin Ladin network's plans advancing."
...
The threat reports surged again in June and July, reaching an even higher peak of urgency. A Terrorist Threat Advisory in late June indicated that there was a high probability of near-term "spectacular" terrorist attacks resulting in numerous casualties. Headlines from intelligence reports were stark: "Bin Ladin threats are real." "Bin Ladin planning high profile attacks." The intelligence reporting consistently described the upcoming attacks as occurring on a catastrophic level, indicating that they would cause the world to be in turmoil, consisting of possible multiple--but not necessarily simultaneous--attacks. A late June report stated that Bin Ladin operatives expect near-term attacks to have dramatic consequences of catastrophic proportion.

WorkingForChange-This Modern World: Talking Points

Newsday.com - National News: "Revelations and contradictions"

Claim vs. Fact: Rice's Q&A Testimony Before the 9/11 Commission - Center for American Progress

Account of Broad Shiite Revolt Contradicts White House Stand

Wayne Madsen: Bush Knew, But Failed to Act: the August 6, 2001, President's Daily Brief (PDB), which the White House had steadfastly refused to release to either the Commission of the public, was titled 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.'

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bush and Blair made secret pact for Iraq war: "President George Bush first asked Tony Blair to support the removal of Saddam Hussein from power at a private White House dinner nine days after the terror attacks of 11 September, 2001[, a]ccording to Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British Ambassador to Washington, who was at the dinner"

Uranium Medical Research Centre[repost] UMRC reported in February that their own staff was contaminated with DU, and that the Coalition's so-called "clean-up" efforts were seeding the desert winds with radiation.

New York Daily News - Home - Daily News Special Investigation: Poisoned? The Army and Air Force fired at least 127 tons of depleted uranium shells in Iraq last year. Now US soldiers are coming home poisoned.

DON'T BE FOOLED: "Greenwash: (n) Disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image "

The Daytona Beach News-Journal: "Race & Punishment
Black students suspended from school twice as often as white students "

Observer | Bush attacks environment 'scare stories'

Framework of Clarke's Book Is Bolstered (washingtonpost.com): "The joint committee's declassified report, released last July, contains dozens of quotations and references to Clarke's testimony, and none appears to contradict the former White House counterterrorism chief's testimony last month."

Take Back The Media!

Yahoo! News - Panel Presses for Rice's Public Testimony: Commissioner John Lehman, another Republican, said Rice 'has nothing to hide, and yet this is creating the impression for honest Americans all over the country and people all over the world that the White House has something to hide, that Condi Rice has something to hide.'
'And if they do, we sure haven't found it. There are no smoking guns. That's what makes this so absurd. It's a political blunder of the first order,' Lehman told ABC's 'This Week.'

-AND HE'S OUR PRESIDENT!!!

White House Whitewash - [Sunday Herald]