Terror Suspect's Attorneys Link FBI to Alleged Torture by Saudis

The Soul of a Lost Cause Just a somewhat melancholy story about one of my personal heroes.

Winston-Salem Journal | State Department won't reveal papers: "The State Department is refusing to make public internal documents requested by Senate Democrats trying to gain more information about repeated clashes between John R. Bolton and U.S. intelligence agencies"

MercuryNews.com | 04/28/2005 | Indicted Chinese firm to equip Iraqi army: "The U.S. Army has approved the purchase of a more than $29 million worth of weapons for the new Iraqi army from a Chinese company that is under federal indictment in San Francisco in connection with the smuggling of 2,000 AK-47 automatic rifles through the Port of Oakland in 1996."

News: "The seemingly pleasant, down-to-earth sensibility of the American Midwest has been upended by a new radicalism"

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: News Releases ENVIRONMENTAL PROMOTION TIED TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS — Florida DEP Dropped Enforcement Actions After Handpicked Supervisor Promoted

WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY: Secrecy, Propaganda Seen Sweeping U.S.

CJR May/June 2005: Stations of the Cross: "Thanks to Christian radio's rapid growth, religious stations now outnumber every other format except country music and news-talk."

USATODAY.com - Survivors of war take fatal risks on roads

Fund-Raising: Take It to the (West) Bank - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com: "Money meant for the inner city went to fight the intifada."

The Seattle Times: Evangelical Christians dominate Air Force Academy, report says: "There is a clear preference for Christianity at the academy, so that everyone else feels like a second-class citizen."

The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Business: "John Rutledge, a Bush administration economist, speculates Americans are starting to tire of their love affair with gas-guzzling vehicles.

'Americans are beginning to understand that one Hummer equals one American soldier in Iraq,' Rutledge told an investment forum in Ormond Beach last month."

'Alternative' Media Quietly Sells Out to Whole Foods Market | Whole Foods Workers Unite!

RollingStone.com: Bush's Most Radical Plan Yet : Politics

PBS Scrutiny Raises Political Antennas (washingtonpost.com)

Yahoo! News - Air Force Cadets See Religious Harassment: "There were people walking up to someone and basically they would get in a conversation and it would end with, `If you don't believe what I believe you are going to hell"

Yahoo! News - Bush administration eliminating 19-year-old international terrorism report: "U.S. intelligence officials said Rice's office decided to eliminate 'Patterns of Global Terrorism' when the counterterrorism center declined to use alternative methodology that would have reported fewer significant attacks.
The officials said they interpreted Rice's action as an attempt to avoid releasing statistics that would contradict the administration's claims that it's winning the war against terrorism."

Mike Whitney: Pope TV and the New World Media: "The new game-plan is to sweep Iraq from the collective consciousness and slow the steady erosion of public support for the war."

Academic Racists Make Mainstream Inroads

Dave Lindorff: The Price of Oil and the Bush Dollar