By Rob Kall
Poll: Do You Support Cindy Sheehan's Campaign Run Against Nancy Pelosi

By Linda Milazzo
Pelosi Secures Her "BUT"

By Marc McDonald
Phil Gramm: Porn Mogul
Molly Ivins once exposed Phil Gramm as the typical sort of GOP hypocrite who (like George W. Bush) loudly denounces all government programs, even as he rakes in tax dollars from various government programs. However, at one point, Gramm did at least attempt to make a living in the private sector. Before Gramm joined the Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed to call for defunding the NEA, he was an investor in soft-core porn movies.HEX file starsat

By Ralph Lopez
Nine Republicans Break Party Ranks: Send Impeachment Article To Judiciary For Hearings
In a stunning development which fell with the silence of a feather yesterday, nine Republicans broke with their iron-fisted party to put country first, and voted to send Rep. Dennis Kucinich's article of impeachment HR 1345 to the Judiciary, where Chairman John Conyers will hold a hearings on abuses of power by the Bush administration, according to the Congressional Quaterly's CQToday.HEX file starsat

By Michael Collins
Michael Collins: Election Fraud & Tyranny - Part 2. (on Mark Crispin Miller's New Book)

By Bernie Sanders
Health Care For All
Our health care system is deteriorating. There are now 47 million people who have no health insurance, 8 million more than when President Bush took office. Millions more are uninsured. Costs are soaring. The result is not only widespread human tragedy but major economic problems.HEX file starsat

By Cheryl Abraham
Why Is Bush So Interested In Our Vaginas?
In the latest christo-fascist-taliban-esque move, Bush wants to put his John Hancock on an Abortion Proposal that would guarantee the religious right of objection to a medical procedure or prescription of a person working for a hospital/clinic/pharmacy setting that would supercede the reproductive rights of a patient, (women), seeking medical care. This could include oral contraceptives and emergency contraception.HEX file starsat

By Rob Kall
Dalai Lama: "I Love President Bush... But... Lack(s) Understanding Of Reality"

By Sherwood Ross
Some 140 Federal & State Officials Could Prosecute Bush For Murder
President Bush "beyond all reasonable doubt" is responsible for U.S. troops killed in Iraq and could be prosecuted by any of 140 Federal and State legal authorities, famed prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi writes.HEX file starsat

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
The Politics Of Codependency
We may not have learned much, over the past several years, but we've learned one thing. We now know how to say "national security" in Chinese--John McCain!HEX file starsat

By Tom DeSabla
Personalization = Distraction
It's only human nature...but our tendency to dangerous distraction from the real systemic risks we face. It's not about the people; it's about the system, and you can't fix the system just by changing the people who lead it.HEX file starsat

By Andi Novick
Lever Lawsuit Gears Up; "Stealing America" Premiers Aug. 1st
NY gears up for the battle of mechanical levers vs. software driven voting systems. Sequoia's software suffers a statewide failure of 50%; and an 85% failure rate in Nassau County. But NY proceeds with Eyes Wide Shut. Why reject software? See "Stealing America, Vote by Vote," premiering in NYC on August 1st.HEX file starsat

By Paul Craig Roberts
Terror List Making Americans Unsafe
This is an excellent piece discussing the absurdity, and dangers, presented by the Bush Administrations undemocratic no-fly watch list.HEX file starsat

By Roy S. Carson
Nepotism An Accepted Practice And Implies That Employing People One Knows And Trusts Is Of Primary Importance!
While a Venezuela Country Profile published on the Internet also advises that "nepotism an accepted practice and is considered a good thing, since it implies that employing people one knows and trusts is of primary importance", the new climate of dog-eats-dog in Venezuela's black versus white political madness doesn't let established custom get in the way of blatant butchery.HEX file starsat

By Ashin Mettacara
Myanmar: Where Is Happiness In Burma For Waso Festival ?
Waso festival in BurmaHEX file starsat

By Bob Burnett
Why Is McCain Close?
Five weeks after Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, the parameters of the 2008 presidential contest have been established. The battle will be waged in roughly 33 states and cost more than a billion dollars. The central issues will be gas prices, the economy, and Iraq. And, despite John McCain's ineptness as a candidate, the race will be disturbingly close.HEX file starsat

By Kathryn Smith
To My Fellow Opednews Activists, I Have To Scold You All:
There is one ingredient missing on this forum which upsets and concerns me. And I have to voice it, for the good of society in America and at this point, even for the sake of the whole world.HEX file starsat

By Paul Kruger
There Are Few Patriots Serving In Our Government Today.
Who and what is a patriot? Do we have any left in government?HEX file starsat

By Rady Ananda
2008 Bibliography Of Scientific Studies On Software Driven Voting Systems
Bibliography of over 50 scientific studies on software driven voting systems, consulted in preparation for contemplated litigation in New York.HEX file starsat

By Herbert Calhoun
Flip-flopping On Obama
Commentary on Obama's move to the Center and his trashing of black people (Black men in particular) in doing so.HEX file starsat

By Kevin Gosztola
Why Help Solve The DNC's Or Obama/Clinton's Financial Woes?
The Democratic Party is struggling to pay for all that it wants to during this election. I cannot think of a good reason to help bail them out.HEX file starsat

By David Swanson
Impeachment Begins July 25th
Finally!HEX file starsat

By Jessica Moore
We The People: An Open Letter To All Citizens
It's become increasingly evident that the imposing and aggressive American "Christian Right" is now so powerful that being a Christian has become a litmus test for becoming president. That is why John McCain has claimed that America is a "Christian nation," and why Barack Obama has said that he has been working to "fulfill God's will," and do "the Lord's work." That is pandering, and betrays the intent of the founding fathers.HEX file starsat

By Compusician
Time Travel: Yes And No?
Is time travel possible? Do the scientists have it right? How did logic escape our most masterful minds, including Einstein?HEX file starsat

By Paul Kruger
The Court And FISA. Can We Trust Them To Protect Our Constitutional Rights?
The very design of FISA seems to be to make it effectively impossible for anyone to challenge this statute in court because it would require unavailable classified information and documents to use in court. Isn't that in itself a violation of the First Amendment right to petition our courts?HEX file starsat

By RC DeWinter
Does George W. Bush Inhabit An Alternate Reality?
Just wondering what planet Bush lives on.HEX file starsat

By Robert N Smith
A New Look At Lowering Energy Cost
A proposal to finance a system of electric cogeneration for our businesses and residences. Saving us a lot of money and a lot of natural resources.HEX file starsat

By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
Al-Arian Granted Bail But Remains In Prison
At a bail hearing at Alexandria, Virginia, Judge Leonie Brinkema has ordered a prominent Palestinian activist, Dr. Sami Al-Arian, released but he remained in prison since the judge refused to block immigration authorities from detaining Al-Arian as a prelude to his deportation.HEX file starsat

By George Staropoli
HOAs: Exchanging Individual Property Rights For Property Values
Homeowner associations are continuing to spread across the country. Yet, very little is said by the real estate special interests about the loss of individual rights and freedoms. These private government authoritarian regimes have the mission to protect property rights, first and foremost, and there is no bill of rights protections within the private HOA "constitution".HEX file starsat

By Dennis Kaiser
Addicted To Oil?
Give me some choices. Then if I continue to use the stuff I may be addicted. Until then get a new slogan...HEX file starsat

By Robert Braunstein
The Noose
Media theater and distractions, false consciousness; form as contentHEX file starsat

By John Olsen
Former CMS Manager Enabled Medicare Managed Care Provider To Dodge Regulations.
Former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services manager, Bette Weisber, enables Advocate Health Care to circumvent CMS regulations. As a result, my stepfather and mother suffered a great deal.HEX file starsat

By Siv O'Neall
Does The United States Produce A Superior Breed Of People?
If not inhibited by a wise and loving upbringing, human beings certainly turn out to be the cruelest of animals. Other animals kill for food and possibly to save their own lives or the life of a loved one. Humans kill and torture from a cruel sense of power or for the ultimate fulfillment of their greed.HEX file starsat

By Marti Oakley
We Are Stealing Iraqi Oil And Calling It Democracy
Oil production sharing agreements should be more aptly called "How we stole the Iraqi's oil and used our military to do it"HEX file starsat

By Ed Tubbs
Fourth Of July Fireworks, Obama, And Gold Hat
As to reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, my mind cannot conceive a more thoroughly detestable or un-American behavior.HEX file starsat

By David Swanson
AP's Problem Is Not What It Thinks
There's been a lot of public discussion of late of the Associated Press's Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier's changes in style rules. Out with "just the facts," in with opinion and perspective. Or so the story goes. The changes that are afoot at the AP appear to be part of a broader trend, influenced - in part - by the internet, the medium itself and the competition from bloggers.HEX file starsat

By DC Rapier
McCain Threatens Iran
Senator McCain calls for 'action' on Iran for what the USA has been doing for decades as the accepted norm of its foreign policy.HEX file starsat

By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Restore The Constitution; Indict Thomas Anderle.
Judges who are sitting unlawfully on the bench are not there out of carelessness. Over the past decades the plan to displace the rule of law under the Constitution has been advanced by a series of groups, all tied to big government and multinational corporations. Eisenhower warned us as have others. It is time to take note and exact accountability. Demand the oath of office; demand their bonds. Restore the Constitution.HEX file starsat

By Muhammad Khurshid
Does The Time Not Arrive To Hit Terrorism With Full Force?
Now the ruling elite of Pakistan has been creating the impression that if the US-led coalition forces hit terrorism in tribal areas, then terrorism will be strengthened in Pakistan. A very strange logic to compel the US to abandon action in tribal areas. It is interesting to note that the same rulers have been opposing the US strikes in tribal areas with whom the US strikes a deal about elimination of terrorism.HEX file starsat

By Deborah White
Second Thoughts About Suitor Obama
When Barack Obama was courting me, I swooned over his velvety tones, his smoothly elegant style, and most of all, his seeming soul-deep promise of a better tomorrow. But now that we're engaged, I'm having second thoughts. You see, my intended seems to be taking me for granted, even before we take our vows.HEX file starsat

By JGideon
'Daily Voting News' For July 17, 2008
a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issueHEX file starsat

By Kathy Malloy
What's In A Name?
To call Ol' Jesse an ardent homophobe would be a gross understatement as he devoted such a vast amount of sweat equity in the pursuit of promoting as much anti-gay legislation as humanly possible.HEX file starsat

By R-CALF United Stockgrowers Of America
Common Sense Prevails Over NCBA 'Free Trade' Rhetoric
For liberals used to thinking the USDA is working for our farmers and ranchers, notice that since January 2007, the USDA had proposed to allow imports of cattle and beef from Argentina, a country not considered free of food-and-mouth disease. R-Calf has been actively involved in legislation to prohibit such imports and thanks Senators Johnson, D-S.D., and Mike Enzi, R-Wyo. This is a win for farmers against "Free Trade."HEX file starsat

By Bill Walker
The Story Of Walker (and Our Constitutional Right To A Convention For Proposing Amendments)
The story of Bill Walker's two lawsuits to compel Congress to obey the Constitution, and determine if Congress is, in fact, required to do so. All 50 states have applied for the Article 5 Convention for Proposing Amendments; 567 applications have been submitted. Current efforts are focused on documentation, education and organizing grassroots efforts, as Congress is failing to uphold their Oath to defend the Constitution.HEX file starsat

By William Cormier
Foreclosure Phil, The Epitome Of "Whining" In The United States
Phil Gramm is the epitome of the "Corapacy" that is plaguing the United States. The author of this Op-Ed points-out that Mr. Gramm represents corporations and the wealthy, and completely ignores the needs of the Average American.HEX file starsat

By Vivian Berryhill
Hmmm... Obama Sounds Like His Daddy To Me
An LA Times articles presents the argument that Barack Obama Jr. is not quite like his dad, Barack Obama, Sr. But... the similarities are there... if we take off those rose-colored glasses and look!HEX file starsat

By Kenneth Briggs
MENTAL HEALTH PARITY
WHILE THE BATTLE FOR MEDICARE PARITY WAS WON THIS WEEK,CONGRESS MUST STILL PASS FINAL LEGISLATION TO ESTABLISH PARITY IN PROVIDER PROVIDFD INSURANCE.HEX file starsat

By David Michael Green
A Government Of People, After All
The Baker-Christopher Commission is trying to give presidents more war-making power, not less.HEX file starsat

By Vincent Guarisco
The Plan Is To Get Everyone "Micro-Chipped"
In this authoritarian driven 21st century so full of numerous Orwellian creations, a long developed scientific control tactic may soon be realized in our lifetime in order to steal everyone's personal freedom. Yes, the powers that be want to implant tiny little microchips into our bodies for surveillance purposes, behavior manipulation, and more...HEX file starsat

By PeterJ
Is Oil Blood Or Is It Just Crap?
Should we be concerned about more than just our energy resources if we actually 'run out' of oil? Could we be burning our house down? I'm just curious.HEX file starsat

By Kay Ebeling
Priest Who Testifies Often About Pedophile Priests Could And Should Be Doing Standup Comedy
ongoing coverage of sex crimes in the Catholic ChurchHEX file starsat

By Brasch
It's Sill The Economy, Stupid
George W. Bush's legacy may not be defined by an encroachment upon civil liberties, the war, environmental destruction, or any of dozen of otehr policies that have adversely affected America. His legacy was burnt into American history on Tuesday, July 15, 2008.HEX file starsat

By Ray McGovern
Obama, McCain Allergic To New Iraq Reality
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By Gregg Gordon
Getting Snowed
Former White House press secretary and conservative pundit Tony Snow faced his fatal illness with great personal courage and humor, and by all accounts, he was a man of considerable decency towards others. How many sins does that excuse?HEX file starsat

By Bob Koehler
Stigmatizing War
A treaty banning cluster bombs is a good start, but only as a step toward eliminating war, not legitimizing it.HEX file starsat

By Mark Biskeborn
Book Review: Generation Kill
Under Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney decided to wage a conventional war against a soveriegn country, Iraq. Meanwhile they talk endlessly about bringing justice to the guerrilla warrors of 9/11.HEX file starsat

By William Cormier
The US Is On The Verge Of Utter Financial Collapse And Martial Law
As our own airlines begin failing, and they appeal to the public, and a secret meeting of Congress discloses we are on the verge of martial law, it is up to each and American alive to stand-up for what we believe in! When Congress holds a secret meeting to talk about the US being placed under martial law, it's time for America to demand change � and now, not tomorrow!HEX file starsat

By Ibrahim Turner
Disinformation On All Sides
how many of us 'awake' Internet bloggers carry around our own prejudices about our own countries and races? "The sun never sets on the British Empire" used to be said with pride when I was a boy � and the beginning of the trouble with Iran started back in the 50's; British oil companies lost their monopoly of Iran's oil, when it was nationalized. The democratic government of Iran was overthrown by the CIA; enter the Shah.HEX file starsat

By Robert McElvaine
Beer Drinkers, Beware McCain!
"If you like what happened to the price of gasoline with two oilmen running the government," Cindy McCain said gleefully, "you'll love what will happen to the price of beer with a beerwoman as first lady!"HEX file starsat

By Mike Malloy
Is Jesse Helms In Hell?
Ol' Jesse was a real godly man, a Christian till the Lord called him home. In fact, what you want to bet that right now ol' Jesse and The Lord aren't sitting around up there in Heaven having a good old-fashioned roll-your-own like they did before tailor-mades came out?HEX file starsat

By Linn Cohen-Cole
Where Is The ACLU?
The endless things being done to farmers in this country by the USDA and FDA on behalf of corporations they have come to represent, are serious constitutional violations, but the ACLU is nowhere to be found in defending small conservative farmers. If the ACLU shows up to defend the civil rights of farmers, that would go a great distance toward uniting liberals and conservatives. I'm asking the ACLU to save our family farms.HEX file starsat

By Dave Lindorff
Impeachment Hearings: A Win Is A Win
Impeachment has moved a real step closer with a 251-166 vote in the house for hearings by the House Judiciary Committee on Dennis Kucinich's 36 articles of impeachment.HEX file starsat

By Paul Craig Roberts
Little War Criminals Get Punished, Big Ones Don't
National Public Radio has been spending much news time on Dafur in Western Sudan where a great deal of human suffering and death are occurring. The military conflict has been brought on in part by climate change, according to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Drought is forcing nomads in search of water...HEX file starsat

By Kevin Gosztola
Updated: Anti-War Leaders Must Stand Up Against Democratic Leadership Complicity
An OPEN letter to anti-war activists and leaders that calls on leaders to have one unified march instead of several little marches. List of those signed will be updated as they are sent to my email address.HEX file starsat

By Sherwood Ross
Bush Threats Vs. Iran Driving Up Oil Prices
President Bush's threats of aggression against Iran are a major cause for soaring oil prices, one leading authority points out.HEX file starsat

By Jay Janson
"I KnowHowToWinWars!" Says McCain Who Bombed Cities In A Lost War
Huh? Which war did McCain know how to win? His 23 bombing runs over North Vietnam did not win anything but shame and disgust at home in streets filled with war protests. America LOST THE WAR. Surely Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper REMEMBER that America LOST THE VIETNAM WAR, but a paid to forget it. They are war facilitators pushing Obama to be competitively warlike. In reality McCain is to pitied.HEX file starsat

By Ronald Doda Jr
Creating The Tungsten Political Current
If you want to create a political current, meaning something that will generate an everlasting amount of positive energy to grow a government that will never fall into fascism, you have to connect the points of democracy that matter most, Libertarian, Right and Left. The way to connect them forever is not to make them compete against each other but to make them have equal numbers so their ideas compete...not anything else.HEX file starsat

By George Washington
Micro Generation And Micro Farming: Combatting High Energy Prices, High Food Prices, And Tyranny
Can we beat high energy and food prices . . . and fight tyranny in the process?HEX file starsat

By Muhammad Khurshid
Rulers May Repeat A Tragedy More Horrible Than 9/11
Stage is being set for repeating a tragedy on the pattern of 9/11. Actually they want to create another justification for another war. This may be the desire of President George W. Bush. This is the reason that Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani predicted another tragedy like 9/11. Now the rulers are acting like criminals.HEX file starsat

By Ed Martin
The Denial Of What Makes You Fat.
An article from McClatchy-Tribune News Service about obesity and what causes it says the reasons for weight gain are as varied as life itself.HEX file starsat

By Kitty Antonik Wakfer
Note Who Is Really Paying The Bills
When the call arises from someone for government to "pay for it" or claims are made that it did, there is a BIG gap in reality.HEX file starsat

By Ed Martin
Conyers' Year Of Tolerating Contempt
A year ago, July 12, 2007, John Conyers issued subpoenas for Harriet Miers and Joshus Bolten to appear before his House Judiciary Committee as witnesses. They, contemptuously, have never appeared. Now, a year later, Conyers is tolerating the contempt of Karl Rove for the same failure to appear by considering his "options."HEX file starsat

By Ronald Doda Jr
Political Arbitrage - The Great Compromise Of 2008

By Vivian Berryhill
McKinney: 1st Black Woman Nominee For POTUS
Cynthia McKinney and Barack Obama: 2 Black Candidates representing major parties for President of the United States.HEX file starsat

By No Lies Radio
Live Broadcast - House Judiciary Hearing On Torture Continues - ON NO LIES RADIO
SPECIAL LIVE COVERAGE: No Lies Radio will bring you the Pacifica Radio Network Live coverage of the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Bush Administration's torture policies. This broadcast is a follow-up to the June 26 hearing with the same committee, and will feature the testimony of previous no-show Doug Feith, the former Undersecretary of Defense.HEX file starsat

By Lani Massey Brown
The "He Did It / She Did It" Business Model For Elections
Advocates of paper ballot technology are "fuddy-duddy, itchy-witchy thinking, nervous Nelly, skittish souls over 40." Exciting e-debate elicits another look at the "he did it / she did it" business model. No matter the voting method, until we develop sound business practices, and standards for recognizing flawed election results that insist on prompt corrective action, we cannot ensure all votes will be counted correctly.HEX file starsat

By Allen L Roland
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR FROM THE PRAIRIES / GARRISON KEILLOR
Just when I've almost been totally disgusted by Bush, Cheney and the spineless Democrats, when I've almost given up hope for a renewed America ~ Garrison Keillor reminds me, like a fresh July summer breeze, what is really important: Allen L RolandHEX file starsat

By John Murphy
Nader And Romanelli Victims Of Pennsylvania Democrats' Conspiracy
Scores of Democrat Party operatives and elected officials are being investigated by the grand jury for receiving taxpayer paid bonuses while working on political campaigns and conspiring to remove the independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader from the ballot in 2004 and Green Party Senatorial candidate Carl Romanelli in 2006.HEX file starsat

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
New Yorker Depicted Obama Horribly Wrong, But Got It Horribly Right About The Slanders
New Yorker Magazine's under fire cover illustrator Barry Blitt says his infuriating cover was intended only to show that the incessant rumor that Obama is a closet terrorist is preposterous and ridiculous fear mongering.HEX file starsat

By David Swanson
Speak With Elizabeth Kucinich Live Online Tonight
Showtime: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 8:00pm-9:00pm EasternHEX file starsat

By Steve Young
BREAKING: SATIRE TO SUE NEW YORKER
In the absolutely last ever story on The New Yorker cover cartoon of the Obamas...Not since the class action law suit enjoined by the words "Independent," "Logic" and "Journalist" against Bill O'Reilly, has the meaning and intention of words been challenged in the courts as strongly.HEX file starsat

By Joe Russo
Neil Cavuto And FOX News: I Like You - I Really, Really Do - BUT What Am I Not Understanding ?
This is a plea to the networks to report the economic situation objectively.HEX file starsat

By Frosty Wooldridge
The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal & Illegal
We cannot keep growing and drilling our way out of the mess we currently suffer. We cannot keep adding 200,000 immigrants every 30 days and think we can remain sustainable. It's time to take a new look at legal and illegal immigration. We must look toward a sustainable future and stable population.HEX file starsat

By Press Release
Clint Curtis Clip From "UNCOUNTED" Now On YouTube
This week,"Uncounted" features Clint Curtis. Curtis knows that there are secret software programs that can be used to fix elections.How?Because he built one.And he also believes that there are people who will use these programs to try and fix elections. Why?Because he blew the whistle on one.Lastly,Clint understands that the number one threat to our democracy is electronic voting machines.Where?All over the country.HEX file starsat

By Wanda Warren Berry
Eyes Wide Open: The Real Situation In New York
Implementation of ballot marking devices is revealing problems with quality control and with the training of equipment managers. In addition, a flurry of articles on the Web, is trying to create public demand that New York State change its plan for HAVA-compliance in order to keep lever machines permanently. The following essay aims to analyze some of the weaknesses in these articles.HEX file starsat

By Susan Allen
"Pretender" Law: HR 6304 Outlaws In Congress Support Warrantless Physical Searches
Congress has no legal standing to pass H.R. 6304, which proposes to grant the presidential powers to authorize Warrantless Physical Searches or Wiretapping in the United States.HEX file starsat

By JGideon
'Daily Voting News' For July 16, 2008
a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issueHEX file starsat

By Mary Lyon
Can't Take A Joke
Might there have been just one detail or two that The New Yorker left off its Obama cover?HEX file starsat

By Robert McElroy
Texas Oilman Shows Us The Way
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss --The Who.HEX file starsat

By L.M. Arndt
A Message To Barack Obama
What's going on with Barack Obama? Is he flip-flopping? Moving to "the center"? Or just turning into another politician listening to what his advisers tell him he needs to say? In my book, he's on the wrong track on many issues.HEX file starsat

By Mark Drolette
I'll Write. All Right?
Then: 9/11. I bought an American flag and, like a true patriot, hung it proudly on my wall at work. When we bombed Afghanistan, I was all for it. But not long afterward, my head nearly spun from my neck when I heard Bush swear Saddam Hussein was the real problem. This was so monumentally absurd it vaporized my ennui. I began to dig.HEX file starsat

By Nino Saviano
Hail To The Chief; Medal To The People
The article assesses Indonesia's quest toward the achievement of democracy. Corruption is an impedement to democratic progress as expressed by the people through a cited public survey. Finally, the author argues that the leadership fails to recognize the need to finally move the country away from a culture of corruption.HEX file starsat

By Mark Herpel
Credit Card Fraud Is Funding Terrorist Networks: Not Digital Gold Currency
The next time you pull out your plastic at the retail counter or type in your card number online, ask yourself, will my data be stolen today and used to fund a terror network? It happens all the time. What is your credit card company doing to prevent it?HEX file starsat

By Skeeter Sanders
Bush May OK Israeli Strike On Iran; ACLU Sues Against FISA
President Bush has informed Israeli government officials that he may look favorably on a pre-emptive military strike by the Jewish state on Iran's nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran to end its nuclear development program fail, a British newspaper reported Sunday.HEX file starsat

By Mary Mancini
Clint Curtis - Million Dollar Programmer
Note from David Earnhardt, "Uncounted" filmmaker: Each week until the election we will release a clip from UNCOUNTED because now, more than ever, people need to see stories that will motivate them to stand up and help save our democracy. Please spread these clips around - to the bleary-eyed and the overworked and the uninspired and the skeptical.HEX file starsat

By James Brett
"Wall Street Socialism"
Huffingtons Borosage writes of Wall Stree Socialism, but it's really corporatism at its finest, Benito would be proud!HEX file starsat

By William Lawrence
Where Are The Gun Rights Groups Now?
The tragedy of John White.HEX file starsat

By Mark Biskeborn
Suicide Bombers
Are suicide bombers similar to others who commit suicide? Do they derive their motivations from the same sources?HEX file starsat

By Joe Quinn
Sarkozy - Hello NATO, Goodbye France
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has styled himself as the great modernizer of France. Recent events however paint the very different picture of a man determined to turn back the clock on French civil liberties and transform France into a vassal state of America and a willing partner in its immoral war on terror.HEX file starsat

By Mumia Abu-Jamal
Of Terrorist Lists & Listers
With the news that Nelson Mandela, former South African president, was, until some scant days ago, on a U.S. government terrorist watch list, comes knowledge of how false and political such a process is. For, you can bet your bottom dollar that no U.S. terrorist list ever included the names of the white Afrikaners who led South Africans Nationalists, who used the machinery of government to inflict terror on millions...HEX file starsat

By Robert Weitzel
Middle East Democracy: Blowback Through The Looking Glass
United States' foreign policy regarding Iran and Israel for the past 60 years has created a contrary "Through the Looking Glass" world in the Middle East where the blowback is not an imaginary children's tale but the stuff of nightmares and the roost for returning chickens.HEX file starsat

By Press Release
Watch The Premiere Of Our First LIVE Show: Meet The Bloggers
Beginning July 18,Meet the Bloggers will be a daring new show broadcast LIVE over the internet each Friday at 1PM ET.And the best part is this show is all yours.You will be part of creating the show,telling us what questions we should ask our high-profile guests;what issues we should be talking about;and what actions should be taken.You can also interact with other audience members using a live blog and instant polls.HEX file starsat

By Dinesh Sharma
From Kunta Kinte To Barack Obama: What's In A Name, Anyway?
Obama's African name is examined within a cultural and historical context.HEX file starsat

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Proposed George W. Bush Sewage Plant Makes Ballot
Finally, a fitting monument to Bush is planned by San FranciscansHEX file starsat

Iraq's Falling Fig Leaf
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki�s call for a timetable on American troop withdrawals has touched off a dramatic change in the debate over the future U.S. engagement in Iraq � essentially, it marks a falling away of the fig-leaf rationales for the five-plus years of occupation.HEX file starsat

Electrical Risks At Bases In Iraq Worse Than Previously Said
Pentagon has previously reported that 13 Americans have been electrocuted in Iraq, many more have been injured, some seriously, by shocks. At one building complex in Baghdad, soldiers complained of receiving electrical shocks in their living quarters on an almost daily basis.HEX file starsat

Milbank: Keeping His Eye On The Ball
These are the stats kept by CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller, the world's most devoted chronicler of presidential comings and goings. By his reckoning, the only activity that seems to rival the president's love of sports is his love of fundraising. Bush has attended 322 fundraisers since taking office.HEX file starsat

White House Blocks Release Of FBI Files
The White House yesterday blocked a House committee's attempt to obtain internal FBI reports about the leak of a CIA officer's identity, asserting that notes from interviews of Vice President Cheney and other administration officials are protected by executive privilege.HEX file starsat

Administration Wanted Loyalist As Justice Dept. Legal Adviser
Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft offered the White House a list of five candidates to lead the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel in early 2003, but top administration officials summarily rejected them in favor of installing a loyalist who would provide the legal footing needed to continue coercive interrogation techniques and broadly interpret executive power.HEX file starsat

How The Bush Administration Supports The Troops - NYT: Electrical Risks At Bases In Iraq Worse Than Previously Said
This deserves at least as much media attention as "America Held Hostage" did under Carter. Why is there so little regard for the safety of our troops?HEX file starsat

GOP Whistle-blower Names Karl Rove In Ohio's 04 Election Theft
Major lawsuit will expose Bush/Cheney's long conspiracy to steal their "victories" through election fraud. Repub Stephen Spoonamore, who worked for McCain's campaign until recently, is a respected expert on computer fraud, and has detailed high-tech sabotage over the past 8 years, and is naming names. Ohio attorney Cliff Arnebeck announced in a press conference today.HEX file starsat

A Developer, His Deals And His Ties To McCain
Mr. McCain, who has staked two presidential campaigns on pledges to avoid even the appearance of dispensing official favors. And yet one special donor, Arizona mega-real estate developer Donald R. Diamond, is a recipient of multiple, high powered official special favors from John McCain. Diamond is one of the elite fund-raisers the McCain campaign calls "Innovators", having raised more than $250,000.00 so far.HEX file starsat

Unique Business Aims To Spread Solar Power
Blake Jones' business plan for his company, Namaste Solar Electric, was so unusual, he confounded a lot of business experts.HEX file starsat

Conyers Plans Impeachment Substitute
Rebuffing Dennis Kucinich's calls for impeachment hearings on George W. Bush, the House Judiciary Committee instead will hear testimony about Bush's "imperial presidency" and several of his administration's scandals.HEX file starsat

Concern Grows Over A Fiscal Crisis For U.S.
As the Bush administration proposes backstopping mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a $300 billion line of credit and Congress contemplates another economic stimulus, the question is who will bail out the government?HEX file starsat

10+ Abuses For The Past 30+ Years
These 10+ abuses (below) did not all come about by mere coincidence. These 10+ abuses are gradually eroding the future and security of the nation. It takes a lot of abuse before a country decays into lawlessness and economic disaster, and the past 30+ years are evidence of that. That is, the U.S. is still one of the 26 best nations (of the hundreds) in the world to live. But for how much longer?HEX file starsat

Seven Years On, No Answer From White House On Anthrax Attacks
It's been almost seven years since - in the weeks immediately following 9/11 - anthrax powder sent through the mail killed five people, threatened the lives of two Democratic senators, terrorized the entire nation, and helped prod a panicky Congress into passing the so-called Patriot Act.HEX file starsat

Cracking Down On Comcast: The FCC's Proposal To Punish America's Largest Cable Company For Blocking Internet Traffic Is
Though funded with taxpayer dollars, the FCC has a long history of backroom deals, special favours and massive giveaways to the industries it's supposed to monitor. Which is why it's so refreshing to see chairman Kevin Martin - a Republican Bush appointee, no less - ready to hold the nation's largest cable company accountable for secretly blocking internet traffic.HEX file starsat

Cracking Code Pink
An interview with Code Pink members at their headquarters brings out changing roles. There was a time to be outrageous in Congress and courageous on marches, but now comes a new phase. Medea Benjamin explains gliter tiaras gained admiration from supporters and no mainline media coverage. Iraq war appropriation bills still pass.HEX file starsat

In A Bit Of A Turnaround, Business Groups Huddle With Dems
Fifteen prominent Democratic Senators met with leaders of business associations to discuss their concerns. One sentence, "Democrats are eager to reap the political benefits of getting business groups to buy into the party's agenda." may have double meaning, methinks.HEX file starsat

Tuesday Group And "�Blue Dogs' Join Forces To Fight Deficit
The GOP Tuesday Group and the Democratic "Blue Dogs" have long shared the goal of reducing the federal deficit, says CQ article. Pete Peterson attended. There is a suggestion for members of both parties to meet over issues of reducing the deficit.HEX file starsat

Notes On The Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Bailout
Here's a general rule for you amateur political economists: whenever the government justifies a policy on the grounds that it must "stabilize" something (e.g., stabilize the Middle East, stabilize Iraq, stabilize Afghanistan, stabilize the commodity markets, stabilize the financial markets, stabilize the macro economy, etc.), immediately conclude that it is up to no good and hold on to your wallet.HEX file starsat

CNN Reporter Finds Himself On Terror Watch List
A good reporter has a difficult job to do when reporting important things to the people. Now the watch list has made it even more difficult. Will your name be the next on the list?HEX file starsat

White House In Climate Change "cover Up" -Sen Boxer
A leading U.S. Senate Democrat accused the Bush administration on Tuesday of a "cover-up" aimed at stopping the Environmental Protection Agency from tackling greenhouse emissions. "This cover-up is being directed from the White House and the office of the vice president," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, the CA Democrat who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which may have to SUBPOENA EPA records.HEX file starsat

Embracing Alternative Care: Top Hospitals Put Unorthodox Therapies Into Practice
Touch therapy, gentle and benign, is intended to rebalance the energy field that its practitioners believe surrounds the body and flows through it along defined pathways, affecting health when disrupted. And it works. Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital is using it.HEX file starsat

Memo To Obama, McCain: No One Wins In A War
For someone like myself, who fought in World War II, and since then has protested against war, I must ask: Have our political leaders gone mad? Have they learned nothing from recent history? Have they not learned that no one "wins" in a war, but that hundreds of thousands of humans die, most of them civilians, many of them children?HEX file starsat

Hate Group Watcher Criticizes Alabama Senator's Talk
Through the courtesy of Southern Poverty Law Center's HateWatch program, I have this 7/9/08 AP report. Alabama State Senator Bishop spoke to the Council of Conservative Citizens, which is listed as a hate group. Anniston paper published it. SPLC attended the meeting.HEX file starsat

Plot To Murder SPLC Founder Disclosed | Hatewatch
Tym Burkey and informant Dave Hall wrote "Into the Lion's Den" which is reviewed here. Hall was undercover for the FBI. Among other events disclosed is how Morris Dees, head of SPLC, was targeted for murder in the 90s. Thirty cases have been brought up in similar attempts. Picture of KY man currently being sued is best seen, rather than described here.HEX file starsat

Mission Not Accomplished
For years, supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have touted his social programs known as "missions" as a model of social justice. But this narrative is a myth, according to a comprehensive study by the Latin American Institute of Social Research. The authors, Yolanda D'Elia and Luis Francisco Cabezas, are not ideological adversaries of Chavez's government.HEX file starsat

Voices Too Often Missing In Op-Ed Land: Women's
The Christian Science Monitor looks at the gender imbalance in the oped writer landscape. There's no question that women are missing � in droves. The primary responsibility for this rests with opinion editors, who have the ultimate say on what appears on their pages; but women also have an obligation to participate more assertively.HEX file starsat

The Power Of Solar Communities
The great innovations of the 21st Century will be social. I predict that the solutions to our greatest challenges will emerge through new ways of coming together. Case in point, the Drake Landing Solar Community is a fully integrated housing development that takes solar to the next level. Solar panels channel heat through a series of underground pipes to produce a reservoir of energy for warming the 52 home neighborhoodHEX file starsat

High Density Vertical Growth (HDVG) Garden
An intro to "vertical gardening"; beat the high cost of good by growing your own- and break the corporate stranglehold on human life at the same time.HEX file starsat

Greener Power To The People: The Real Energy Alternative?
Ministers could avoid building nuclear reactors by encouraging families to fit solar panels and other renewable energy equipment to their homes, a startling official report concludes. The government-backed report, to be published tomorrow, says that, with changed policies, the number of British homes producing their own clean energy could multiply to one million � about one in every three � within 12 years.HEX file starsat

German Expert Predicts US Solar Energy Boom
There's something incongruous about experts from normally cloudy Germany coming to California, the land of eternal sunshine, to teach the locals about how to harness solar power. But that's was happening this week in San Francisco, where organizers of the world's largest solar exhibition, Germany's Intersolar, launched an American version of their confab amid predictions of a massive solar boom in the ailing US economy.HEX file starsat

How You Can Turn A Vacant Lot Into A Community Garden
If you see a vacant lot in your neighborhood that would make a great garden, here's how to get started:HEX file starsat

Microgeneration Could Rival Nuclear Power, Report Shows
British buildings equipped with solar, wind and other micro power equipment could generate as much electricity in a year as five nuclear power stations, a government-backed industry report showed today.HEX file starsat

Rachel Maddow, Host Apparent: Analyst "At The Top" Of "Very Short List" For Next MSNBC Opening
For eight nights beginning just before the 4th of July, Rachel Maddow, the host of a program on Air America, the liberal talk-radio network, served as a substitute for the vacationing Keith Olbermann. "At some point, I don't know when, she should have a show," said Phil Griffin, hours before he was promoted on Wed to president of MSNBC. "She's on the short list. It's a very short list. She's at the top." HEX file starsat

Bring Me The Head Of Osama Bin Laden
A scenario of how Bush's legacy could be made shinier. Capture perpetrator No. 1. But of course there are issues. More boots in Afghanistan pointed to Pakistan which could touch off more rebellion. Remember the A-Bomb. And what about Obama's take on the Osama question?HEX file starsat

FBI Probing Failed IndyMac Bank (and 20 Others For Possible Mortgage Fraud)
The FBI is investigating failed IndyMac Bank for possible mortgage fraud, US media reported on Thursday, citing US officials. The California-based IndyMac Bank, which government regulators seized last week, is among 21 banks being probed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported.HEX file starsat

Truthout Interviews Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced a new article of impeachment against Pres. Bush in the House last Thursday. In a single, pointed resolution, he charged the president with lying to Congress about the presence of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq, in order to obtain permission for a US attack ... No one said impeachment would be easy, but Kucinich may be making some headway in what some think is "impossible."HEX file starsat

Massachusetts To Allow Out-of-State Same Sex Marriages
MA may have been the first state to legalize same-sex marriage for its residents, but when California last month invited out-of-state gay and lesbian couples to get married, the potential economic benefits did not go unnoticed. Now MA wants to extend the same invitation. On Tuesday, the State Senate voted to repeal a 1913 law preventing MA from marrying out-of-state couples if their marriages are illegal in their home states.HEX file starsat

The Obama Cover: What's The Point?
More coverage on The Cover, this time from Madison Powers, Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His point is that media's purpose is to get people talking, and he's joining them.HEX file starsat

Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Spent $200M To Buy Influence
If you want to know how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have survived scandal and crisis, consider this: Over the past decade, they have spent nearly $200 million on lobbying and campaign contributions. But the political tentacles of the mortgage giants extend far beyond their checkbooks.HEX file starsat

Obama Wants To Shrink One War, But Expand Two Others
Tom Hayden, who knows about war, says this in subtitle to his article: 'Obama is serious about a withdrawal plan for Iraq, but he's committed himself to expanding the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dumb Idea."HEX file starsat

High-Quality, Universal Health Care Is Possible -- With No Premiums Or Deductibles
A plan by this man: Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel has the background and experience needed to help draft a blueprint for health care reform. An oncologist who also has a Ph.D. in political science and now serves as chair of the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health, Emanuel is attuned to the ethics as well as the politics of medicine, and he understands the needs of seriously ill patients.HEX file starsat

Barack Obama's Super Marketing Machine
How data mining works in campaigns. Enhanced from Rovian times into political sophistication by Obama.HEX file starsat

Phil Gramm's Porn Stash
Phil Gramm, taken to the woodshed by John McCain over the "nations of whiners" comment has a political trail which makes him easy to attack. Enron. Girly-magazine startup. Economics is his chosen field of study, remember.HEX file starsat

US Inflation Rate At 26-year High
On Bernanke's 2nd day of Congressional testimony, BBC gives a background on his status report so far. News or opinion is hard to decipher on the issue. It's a lot to think about.HEX file starsat

US Faces Global Funding Crisis, Warns Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch has warned that the United States could face a foreign "financing crisis" within months as the full consequences of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage debacle spread through the world.HEX file starsat

Court Seeks To Stay US Executions
There are Mexican nationals on death row in US. Mexican govt sued in World Court because they were denied access to Consulate. One case is close to an execution date. BBC has written small article. Case hopefully appears more fully elsewhere.HEX file starsat

Deal Reached In Congress To Rewrite Rules On Wiretapping
WASHINGTON - After months of wrangling, Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress struck a deal on Thursday to overhaul the rules on the government's wiretapping powers and provide what amounts to legal immunity to the phone companies that took part in President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program after the Sept. 11 attacks.HEX file starsat

No Evidence Needed Under Terror Profiling Plan
No evidence needed under terror profiling plan Who you are, where you travel could make you FBI target BY LARA JAKES JORDAN � ASSOCIATED PRESS � July 3, 2008HEX file starsat

IndyMac Fallout Hits Other Banks
The fallout of IndyMac Bank prompted investors to dump the stocks of many mortgage lenders, precipitating the steepest one-day decline in banking shares since 1989, a newspaper report said on Tuesday. Southern California fixtures Downey Financial Corp. and First Fed Financial Corp., were among the hardest hit, with their stock prices down 24 percent and 19 percent respectively, according to the Los Angeles Times.HEX file starsat

The 2006 Israel Lebanon War, What Really Happened!
This is an interesting article, which was published last week in the Al Sharq Al Wast Arabic newspaper.HEX file starsat

What Iran Really Wants
Iran realizes that if it controls oil, America in its current state will not attack it, but rather, opt to cut a deal with it, because the entire American fabric of life is based on oil. Because of oil there are towns and suburbs; because of oil, there is an America. America isn't New York � America is Maryland and California and Kansas. And there, life is not worth living without oil.HEX file starsat

Who Hijacked Our Country: Oil Company Leases: "Use It Or Lose It"�
While the Repubs are screaming about drilling US coasts NOW!!! for oil that'll take 10 years to get to market, they didn't vote for a "use it or lose it" bill that would've compelled oil companies to drill where they ALREADY HAVE leases. It was emergency legislation and needed a 2/3 vote; some Dems are working on another version, while Repugs scream.HEX file starsat

How Vanunu Harms Israel: BAD PR!
On July 8, 2008, instead of ending Mordechai Vanunu's freedom of speech trial which began in January 2006, the three Judges have put off their decision until September. His brother Meir has predicted, "So we wait to September, and then I bet it will be another postponed hearing."HEX file starsat

Traitor-in-Chief Bush Asserts Exec. Privilege In Plame Leak Investigation
Mukasey's letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) last night, pre-empted a vote this morning on contempt of Congress stemming from the White House's refusal to release FBI documents relating to the Valerie Plame leak scandal. The documents were subpoenaed by Committee on June 16.HEX file starsat

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime - Film By John Albanese
one of the best films ever made about 9/11; focuses on established facts, the many questions raised by the families and ignored by the 9/11 Commission, and additional questions raised since.HEX file starsat

No George Monbiot, These Are The Facts Of September 11th 2001
70 disturbing facts about the 9/11 attacksHEX file starsat

The Third Tower 1/2 [Video Clip Compilation]
This just under 9" minute video has a lot of different footage from different angles of the now famous WTC7 "collapse", which happened at 5:20pm on 9/11. See for yourself if you believe fires and structural damage are what made this building drop just like a controlled demolitionHEX file starsat

HALF OF MCCAIN'S CAMPAIGN CASH CAME FROM 500 BUNDLERS
HALF OF MCCAIN'S CAMPAIGN CASH CAME FROM 500 BUNDLERS Senator John McCain released an updated list of his top money collectors on Tuesday, revealing that nearly ONE FIFTH of those brining in the largest amounts for him--totalling more than $500,000 each-- ARE LOBBYISTS OR WORK FOR FIRMS THAT ENGAGE IN LOBBYING.HEX file starsat

Discussing The Uprising On Lou Dobbs 7/9/08
David Sirota and two other authors of recent books discuss (video) the political mindset with Dobbs. Congress, poorly regulated financial transactions, and campagn financing are all debated. Sirota provided the video.HEX file starsat

Water Scarcity: The Real Food Crisis
In the discussion of the global food emergency, one underlying factor is barely mentioned: The world is running out of water. A British science writer, who authored a major book on water resources, here explores the nexus between water overconsumption and current food shortages.HEX file starsat

Phil Gramm's Porn Stash
Before Gramm joined the Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed to call for the defunding of the NEA, before he attacked an opponent for taking money from a gay rights group, and before he was interviewed by the white supremacist Southern Partisan magazine, Gramm was an avidly active investor in soft-core pornography movies.HEX file starsat

White-power Groups Recruiting From Military
White-supremacist groups have recruited 203 people who served in the U.S. military or who claim to have U.S. military backgrounds, according to a new report by the FBI. The unclassified FBI Intelligence Assessment, issued last week and obtained by NBC News, cautions that white-power extremists are trying hard to recruit active-duty soldiers and recent veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.HEX file starsat

Iran Ready For Talks With US Under Fair, Equal Conditions
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday he would welcome direct talks with the US if both parties are on equal footing, adding such talks could happen at any time in future.HEX file starsat

Court Backs Bush On Military Detentions
President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision.HEX file starsat

Big Brother Database Recording All Our Calls, Texts And E-mails Will 'ruin British Way Of Life'
Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire population were condemned yesterday as a 'step too far for the British way of life'. In an Orwellian move, the Home Office is proposing to detail every phone call, e-mail, text message, internet search and online purchase in the fight against terrorism and other serious crime.HEX file starsat

Digg - International Protest Sept 11th, 2008 W/ Cynthia McKinney
This years protest will feature Green Party Presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney. Rallies will be held in cities around the world. Cynthia will be in NYC. If you are not able to make it to New York City, plan a protest in your city locally.HEX file starsat

U.S. Media Continue To Black Out Iranian Diplomatic Overtures
What might you not have heard about, particularly if you watch American television news programming? Why, just the fact that the demonic Islamofascist leader of Iran (that would be President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the non-wingnuts among you) has once again signaled his willingness to have diplomatic discussions with the United States regarding any topic whatsoever.HEX file starsat

The Shoot-Down Of Iran Air Flight 655
The shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the cruiser U.S.S. Vincennes marked the end of an eight-year-war between Iran and Iraq, a war that in all probability started with the help of the US government and was certainly prolonged by the US and Israel as part of the policy of dual containment of Iran and Iraq.HEX file starsat

High-Quality, Universal Health Care Is Possible -- With No Premiums Or Deductibles
Under the proposal, all Americans would receive a health certificate entitling the individual or family to enroll in the health care plan of their choice. In most cases, they would keep their current physician. The certificate would not be a "cash card" to buy services; instead, it would be a voucher that gives the individual or family the right to enroll in whatever insurance plan they choose.HEX file starsat

Obama Wants To Shrink One War, But Expand Two Others
Barack Obama has restated his phased withdrawal plan for Iraq in response to public questioning, but committed himself to expanding the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.HEX file starsat

Doug Thompson: So Much Partisanship, So Little Truth
America's problems cannot be solved as long as partisanship replaces patriotism, anger replaces reason and hate replaces debate.Until we start remembering that we are all Americans the problems will continue to grow and there will be nothing that any President-Republican or Democrat or Libertarian or Green-can do to fix it.HEX file starsat

Froomkin: The 28 Percent President
At his press conference yesterday, President Bush tried to emphasize the positive about the economy -- and his presidency. The financial system is "basically sound," he said. And he rejected the naysayers who say "aww, man, you're running out of time." But at the end of the day, Bush found himself overridden, ignored and disdained.HEX file starsat

Obama And McCain Duel Over Iraq
Obama pledged that he would swiftly end the war and reorient America's approach to the world to address the challenges of terrorism, nuclear proliferation, climate change and energy dependence. A short time later McCain accused Obama of pursuing a strategy of defeat and drawing judgments without adequate facts.HEX file starsat

Consumer Prices, Driven By Fuel, Surge 1.1% In June
Almost everything that consumers spent money on last month�from food to electricity and gasoline�took a bigger piece of their paychecks. Inflation in June rose at the fastest rate in 17 years, the government said on Wednesday, just a day after the chairman of the Federal Reserve warned that inflation posed a significant risk to the nation�s economic outlook.HEX file starsat

Afghan NATO Force Hits Targets Inside Pakistan
NATO forces in Afghanistan hit targets inside Pakistan with artillery and attack helicopters after coming under rocket fire from across the border, the alliance said on Wednesday.HEX file starsat

New Yorker Mag: Making It--How Chicago Shaped Obama
Some Obama supporters professed shock when, recently, he abandoned a pledge to stay within the public campaign-finance system if McCain agreed to do the same. Concern about Obama�that he is a pure political animal�suddenly became more widespread; commentators abruptly stopped using the words �callow� and �na�ve.�HEX file starsat

US Plans To Station Diplomats In Iran For First Time Since 1979
The US plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years as part of a remarkable turnaround in policy by President George Bush. The state department is keen that the move should not be interpreted as a sign of weakness.HEX file starsat

A �distressed� Medvedev And A Distrustful West
Suspicion of Russia by Western leaders is what makes them punish the very man who wants to move the country toward their ideals. No wonder Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who became the Kremlin�s master little more than two months ago, describes himself as �deeply distressed.�HEX file starsat

VIDEO: British MP : George Galloway Telling It Like It Is
The outspoken George Galloway talking about the consequences of an attack on Iran.HEX file starsat

"W" Actors Arrest Details: Tasers, Pepper Sprayed, "N" Word
Saturday in Shreveport, LA actors from Oliver Stone's Bush biopic "W" were arrested around 2 am in what has been billed a bar brawl, and Wednesday night new details about repeated tasering, pepper spray and use of racial slurs emerged. If the reports of cell phone video...HEX file starsat

China May Artificially Change Unfavorable Weather For Olympics
BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) -- If bad weather threatens the August 8 opening of Beijing's Olympic Games, then meteorologists may change the weather, according to a Chinese meteorology official.HEX file starsat