ARCHIVE MAY 22, 2004 TO PRESENT
February 27, 2005
Click. Iran was offered nuclear parts in 1987.
Click. Did Blair sign up for Iraq war at Bush's ranch in April 2002?
Click. Iran and Russia sign nuclear deal.
Click. Maureen Dowd: 'W.'s stiletto democracy'
Click. Linda McQuaig:
It's now clear how the Bush administration sees things: Canadian sovereignty
exists only at its pleasure. If we do what Washington wants, we retain our sovereignty. If we don't, all bets are off.
Click. Senators Clinton and Kerry submit open voting bill.
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Andrew Sullivan: New York warms to Hillary...next it could be America.
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Music notes:
Stardom:
VOICES IN YOUR HEAD: New sounds from Portugal.
Guy Rose:
San Gabriel Mission.
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Click. Mixed memories of "The Family". Ex members believe abuse normal.
Click Current sect members react.
Click. Seniors groups looking beyond Canada for drugs.
Click. Search resumes for missing 9-year-old Florida Girl.
Click. Service somber at church where BTK suspect was leader.
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Rare Austrian production of "The Sound of Music" reflects nation's schizophrenic Nazi past.
February 26, 2005
Click. Helen Thomas: 9 billion goes missing in Iraq.
Click. Israel blames Syria for suicide bombing.
Click. Troops hunt insurgents in Iraqi river valley.
Click. Campaign-like attacks turn up volume on Social Security debate.
Click. California nurses dog Governor Schwarzenegger's every step.
Click. California's gang database. Who is in it?
Click. Kansas police make arrest in BTK killings.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Young Man Walking with Dogs in
Fontainebleau Forest
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Click. Illinois legislators want to raise burden of proof to "beyond
all doubt" in order for jury to sentence murderer to the death penalty.
Click. FBI cracks down on gangs of El Salvador.
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Operation Northwoods and Other Covert Actions.
Click. Prime Minister Martin: The U.S. must not intrude on Canadian airspace.
Click. New bird flu symptoms reported.
Click. Police eye suspect in Napa double murder case.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Young Man Walking with Dogs in
Fontainebleau Forest
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Music noted: Stardom: STILL COLD: Warming With
Music.
Click. Martha Stewart's big comeback.
Click. "Man the hunter" theory is debunked in new book that describes human beings'
evolution as prey.
February 25, 2005
Click. Charlie Savage:
The high-profile investigation into FBI agents' allegations of
detainee abuses at Guantanamo, is not examining
the conduct of Army Major General Geoffrey Miller, the man who oversaw the interrogation
operation at the time that prisoners were allegedly shackled in painful
positions and exposed to extreme temperatures to break their silence.
Click. Ed O`Loughlin: Pulling strings behind the scenes in Syria.
Click. Sydney Blumenthal:
Lost in Europe.
Click. Paul Krugman: Kansas on my mind.
Click. More
details about the Bush family's war profiteering.
Click. Xuan-Trang Ho:
China’s burgeoning role in Latin America -- a threat to the US?
Click. Franz J. T. Lee:
Venezuela -- Waterloo or Dien Bien Phu?
Click. Fred Cederhold:
The Euro Dollar rollercoaster ride.
Click. John Park:
China can't use its leverage in the North Korea crisis.
Click. Lisa
Pease: Hey, hey, USA. How many coups did you plan today?
Click. Steve Outing: In defense of citizen journalism.
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A call for child porn users amnesty in Britain?
February 24, 2005
Click. Government unsure how may shoulder-fired missiles are missing.
Click. 50-state task force group says Bush's "No Child Left Behind" law is unconstitutional.
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Martin Kelly: The Gonzocons live on.
Click. PG&E still can't find its missing nuclear fuel rods in Eureka,
California.
Click. (LAT Reg) Juan Cole: What if the U.S. doesn't like what the voters like in the Mideast and beyond?
Click. Maureen Dowd: Swifties slime again.
Click. Cannonfire on Gannon and the Rev. Moon.
Click. Brian Courtis: Hollywood's dirty little secret.
February 23, 2005
Click. U.S. intelligence concludes theft of
Russian nuclear material “has occurred”.
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The Department of Justice has abandoned its argument that charges made by
a fired FBI translator Sibel Edmonds are secret, paving the way for a court case
involving charges of incompetence, poor security and possible espionage in the
translation unit of the bureau's Washington field office.
Click. Company's work in Iraq profited Bush's uncle Bucky.
Click. Wall Street's
right-hand man in the middle of Bush's new social security plans.
Click. Trucks can be stopped dead by a flick of a switch.
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Harmon Leon: My dinner at Applebee's with white supremacists.
Click. David Lazarus: Wells Fargo Bank frets over security breaches.
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Ron Russell: Marin County DA Ed Berberian switches his office's position,
agreeing to Catholic Church demands to withhold sex-abuse documents from the press.
Click. Ted Rall: Bloggers and the new McCarthyism.
Click. Rant of the week:
Gay facts and fantasies in Propagannon research.
Click. Homeland Security wants to pay journalists to participate in simulated terror-attack exercises.
Click. Paul Maidment: Stopping the presses.
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STARDOM: It's RAINING Today!
Click. Hunter S. Thompson on 9/11.
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New Christian manuscripts discovered in Egypt.
February 22, 2005
Click. David Hackworth: Pentagon is lying its way out of an unwinnable war -- again.
Click. U.S. aid funneled to Castro's opponents.
Click. Thomas Oliphant: Greenspan's gyrations.
Click. Politics, lies and audio tape.
Click. A hollow appointment to a sham job.
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Cannonfire: Another deep throat note.
Click. Chirac and Schroeder stir debate: Greater EU clout. Lesser NATO role.
Click. Al Qaida also wants the bomb.
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The mob's million dollar batter.
Click. Terror TV.
February 21, 2005
Click. Scott Ritter says US attack on Iran planned for June.
Click. Niall Ferguson: Three reasons why the U.S. and Europe won't make up.
Click. Pat
Buchanan: Baiting a trap for Bush?
Click. German government seeks to curb Neo-Nazi assemblies at historically symbolic places.
Click. Neo-Nazi group requests use of historic Yorktown battlefield.
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Granma: Cuba signs oil production contract with Chinese enterprise.
Click. Depriving U.S. and its corporations of oil can be of great benefit to Venezuela.
Click. New targets for advisers to Swift Vets: AARP and Social Security.
Click. Fewer scientists are being consulted or funded by the Bush administration.
Click. Cathy Young: Last of the Confederates.
Click. HUNTER S. THOMPSON. Original gonzo journalist kills himself at
age 67.
Click. Paul Krassner reflects on the legacy of Hunter S. Thompson.
Click. Former editor recalls Hunter S. Thompson as newspaper columnist.
RIP: Hunter S. Thompson - memorable quotations:
A word to the wise is infuriating.
America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all
the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the
world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime
in Progress is not a happy prospect.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five
hours.
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've
always worked for me.
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600
people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle
today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of
professional journalism.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline.
Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and
no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than
his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached
to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal
defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He
came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody
we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people
who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's
also a negative side.
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths
of an ether binge.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug,
especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we
developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon
all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and
this hatred has brought us together.
Nixon laughed when I told him this. 'Don't worry,' he said. 'I, too, am a family
man, and we feel the same way about you.'" - Better Than Sex- Confessions of A
Political Junkie
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs
began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded;
maybe you should drive. . . ." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around
us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and
screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an
hour with the top down to Las Vegas.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
My apartment in New York was on Perry Street, a five minute walk from the
White Horse. I often drank there, but I was never accepted because I wore a tie.
The real people wanted no part of me.- The Rum Diary (Ch. 1)
Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
February 20, 2005
Report: U.S. in Secret Talks with Iraqi Insurgents
Marines Launch Bid to Secure Iraq City of Ramadi
Tehran: Guess Who's Trying to Infiltrate Iraq?
Newsweek: Aboard Air CIA
Is
Britain part of a worldwide torture plot?
Navy Commissions Super-Spy Submarine
Risk of deadly global epidemic as bid to halt spread of bird flu is foiled
Quite the club....
Cannonfire on Gannon exploding
The U.S. Department of Education insists California must apply tougher standards
for school districts, which could label one-third of the state's 1,000 districts
as failing. Currently only 14 are.
Arnold readies strategy
A desperate injection of stem cells and hope
When Does Autism Start?
Dirt: The Next Big Thing in Wine Country
Geoges de La Tour: Saint Joseph Charpentier
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February 19, 2005
50 Dead in Eight Iraq Suicide Bombings
Five U.S. Senators Visit Iraq; Clinton Says Insurgency Is Failing as Suicide
Bombings, Other Attacks Kill Dozens
A Shi'ite Iraq Emerges: Juan Cole
Bashar Assad: The Syrian sphinx
Watson, Boyes: They're all pals with Bush now -- just don't mention the war
Slain U.S. Nun at Heart of Battle Over Brazil's Amazon
Meek: Torture Acclimation
Winslow Homer,
Right and Left
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Ray McGovern: Hail,
Hail The Gang's All Here
Robert Parry: Negroponte's blind spots
Medicaid Battles: Governors Oppose Federal Cuts, Say It's Time for Sweeping Change
Judge
hearing challenge to election of Gov. Christine Gregoire (Washington) squelched
the Democratic Party's attempt to have him define the proof Republicans must produce to get the election overturned
Salzman, Epstein: The tyranny of eminent domain
John Powers:
On--Terminator genes
LA County judge who killed himself feared molestation claims
Marjie Lundstrom: We need a way to house violent sex predators out of prison
R. Scott:
Haidl
the gang-rape defendant busts up as Jane Doe cries on the stand
Solano County CPS fails again: 4-year old girl is allegedly
beaten to death after complaint to CPS
Susan Paynter: Stamper speaks his mind -- again
$95m deal to preserve Hearst coastal area
Despite heart disease risk, few women take heed
Herbal Extract As Effective As Commonly Prescribed Anti-depressant
Kenan
Malik: There
is nothing outrageous or immoral about human cloning
Timothy Heritage: Google online book plan sparks French war of words
Husband-And-Wife Team Build Startup Into Blogging Trailblazer
The giant tortoise's tale
Jesuits face the challenge of declining numbers
February 18, 2005
Click. Pepe Escobar:
Who benefits from Hariri's murder?
Click. Dead reckoning. Syria and Lebanon.
Click. All for the sum of nothing. No one knows how many
civilians died in Iraq?
Click. U.S. troops being treated with "medical ecstasy".
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Uploading the President's electrocardiogram.
Click. Paul Krugman: Three-card maestro.
Click. Mark Fitzgerald: Hemisphere's latest
press-freedom Worry: The U.S.A.
Click. Almost half of all Americans take antidepressants. Discussion with Dr. Alan Schatzberg,
chair of Stanford University's Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Click. California school districts under attack.
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Computer vision syndrome appears after four hours of work with PC.
Click. Neo-Nazi group
plans rally on Revolutionary War battlefield.
February 17, 2005
Click. The CIA and the Defense Department have rejected a call
by the independent 9-11 commission to consolidate secret U.S.
paramilitary operations within the Pentagon, including those in which
the U.S. government wants its hand to remain hidden.
Click. Critics say war-fund request circumvents budget process.
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Brian Morton: The new thugs.
Click. (Sacto Bee Reg) Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata on Wednesday said
he has refused to describe his past work as a private political consultant that
is part of an FBI probe because the details are not "particularly interesting."
Click. Stardom:
PORTUGUESE ELECTION CAMPAIGNS AMERICAN STYLE.
Click. Ire and praise for "grey" look at Nazis.
Click. Molly Ivins: Screw the children.
February 16, 2005
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Robert Fisk on the Beirut bombing, U.S. -- Syrian relations and the Iraqi elections.
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U.S. lawmakers push to enforce economic sanctions against Iran.
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U.S. lawmakers press Rice to impose sanctions on Syria.
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Health Secretary Mike Leavitt refused Wednesday to name the states he says are
cheating taxpayers out of $40 billion in Medicaid funding, even as senators
pressed him.
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Senate voted on Wednesday to allow more time for the declassification of
government documents about Nazi war criminals.
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Patrick Buchanan: The Democrats' dilemma.
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Patrick Radden Keefe: Are Al Qaeda terrorists using your personal computer?
Click. Colin Brown: WMD expert reopens row about "sexed-up" dossier.
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Joanne Mariner: Giving Colombia's paramilitaries what they want.
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Will Bunch: Why are the feds probing long-dead "Scoop" Jackson?
Click. Blogosphere politics.
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San Francisco dog court. Due process for every canine.
February 15, 2005
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CIA seizes Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson's papers.
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2 million acres of New Mexico grasslands latest battleground over drilling
Click. Integrating Canada and the United States. Disturbing?
Click. Dallas County District
Attorney and private firm become partners to fight crime.
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Sam Smith: The Bush Clinton nexus.
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New Music Review:
Stardom:
They Should Have Been Called
THE GRANNYS.
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IRS investigating tax-exempt bond issued by Cabazon Indians.
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Cannonfire on More Rhoemosexuality.
Click. FBI director: Crypto must be controlled.
Click. British police conduct high-tech search for new clues to Princess Diana's death.
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FBI reveals details about arrests of NAMBLA Internet child sex ring.
More Agent infiltrated NAMBLA.
February 14, 2005
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To head off threat of a Shi'ite clergy-driven religious movement, the US
has resolved to arm small
militias backed by US troops and entrenched in the population to "nip the evil
in the bud".
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Muqtedar Khan: Have Iraqis
voted for a dictatorship?
Click. Christian Henderson:
Who killed Rafiq al-Hariri?
Click. Lisa M. Kreiger:
A Stanford
University researcher has gotten a preliminary go-ahead to create a mouse with a
significant number of human brain cells -- as long as the creature behaves like
a mouse, not a human.
Click. Repairs to the
nation's voting system, already long overdue, are likely to remain uncompleted
by the 2006 congressional elections.
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How Bush goes straight to the
people: Control the message, stage the event.
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Josh Marshall: Bamboozlepalooza tour makes
little progress for Bush.
Click. James Gordon Meek:
Military lawyers at the Guantanamo Bay terrorist prison tried to stop inhumane
interrogations, but were ignored by senior Pentagon officials.
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A federal judge ruled today that Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich
can freeze out two reporters from The (Baltimore) Sun by barring all state
employees from talking to the journalists.
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Sam Smith: The little Eichmanns of Dresden.
Click. China's big export is spying.
February 13, 2005
2/15/05 Judge rejects Hamlin gag order
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Click. El Dorado County Superior
Court Judge Eddie T. Keller hears D.A.'s motion for gag order covering the Richard
Hamlin trial. The Sacramento Bee objects. +
Click. Lawyer Hamlin is facing the case of his life.
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RICHARD
WILLIAM HAMLIN ON TRIAL
THE BEST CONSPIRACY LITIGATION IN CALIFORNIA
by Virginia McCullough
February 13, 2005
Judge Considers Declassifying Sept. 11 Report on the F.B.I.
Anthony
Loyd: "I'm more scared of going out with these guys than fighting
insurgents."
Breaking the al-Qaeda code
Juan Cole
report on Iraq election results
AP Enterprise: American Officials Are Questioning Iraqi Shiite Leaders About
Their Level of Ties to Iran
Iran, Iraq Share Complex History
Negotiations on Key Posts at Fever Pitch in Iraq
Fineman, Isikoff:
King Karl
Papers Offer New Clues On 9/11 Hijackers' Travel
CIA debacle in Iran cost spies' lives
Pentagon Espionage Unit Loses Its Head
Army recruitment during and part of a church service - eyewitness account and pictures
Lisa Pease: Deep
Throat Rumblings
Neo-Nazis March as Dresden Remembers War Dead +
White supremacists trying to get message to mainstream audience in U.S.A.
When the ambassador met the heiress
Thomas Oliphant: A lesson in dishonesty
Molly
Ivins: On Bush's budget. Look out folks, this one's a doozy
Ellis Henican: When it's personal, the right veers left
Taser aims at home market as safety concerns mount
Hunt for Fugitives Expands to Retirees
Niece says she fears prison for Shanley
Bashir plans to broadcast new film on "Michael Jackson's Secret World"
Kidnap charge against Jonea Rogers reduced to misdemeanor
"Bench Stress"
Gaye LeBaron: Book evokes memories of Santa Rosa's Chinatown
New Tools Ease Collaboration and Publishing Online
Duke's mummified cat to go on show
February 12, 2005
Bush cuts hit Democratic states, analysis finds
Click. Guantanamo-linked illness damages agent's faith in FBI.
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New HIV strain: Chilled by findings, investigators dreaded the mounting evidence.
Concern grows over drug given to troops with mental side effects
Click. Ron
Paul: HR 418: A national ID bill masquerading as immigration reform.
Robert Parry:
Bush and the rise of managed-democracy.
Russians knew West's germ warfare secrets
Kissinger brings Putin "friendship" from Bush
The President in Washington Again? Bush Discovers Potomac Fever
Space
war game improves joint warfighting capability
Stardom:
CELL SHOCKED
Feds
picking California pockets?
With recovery goal reached, northern rockies federal wolf managers reflect on controversy
In Northern Iraq, smugglers cross to Iran despite uneasy relations
Russians protest against benefits reform; Pro-Kremlin forces organize their own
rallies
Click. The top official at a nonprofit agency Shelter Inc. serving the
homeless in Contra Costa County says he knowingly assigned a three-time
convicted sex offender as the live-in manager of a Concord home for mentally
disabled young adults, who now claim they were abused.
Butte County: 6 could face manslaughter charges in hazing death
San Francisco: Arrest in slaying of student, 17. Youth counselor, 21, suspect in strangling, dumping of body
Click.
Sexcapades! Haidl II defense
lawyer is told to sit down and shut up. But his old playbook remains: blame the
"filthy, trashy" victim.
Cat agility races
Inventor primes himself for seeing humans achieve immortality
February 11, 2005
Click. Homeland chief to "waive all laws"?
Security provision in REAL ID Act gives feds broad powers at border.
Click. Paul Krugman: Bush's class-war budget.
Click. Jon Carroll:
Let us consider the rapture index.
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A U.S. resident, wealthy Pakistani businessman being held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison
camp for suspected terrorist ties urged al-Qaida operatives to acquire nuclear
weapons for use against U.S. troops and said he knew where to get them, according to American investigators.
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Click. Excerpts from transcript of detainee's tribunal.
Click. A
CIA Contractor, charged with beating Afghan prisoner who later died, argues he followed
the nation's will in his work for
intelligence agency.
Click. Peter Byrne:
Behind Senator Diane Feinstein's war with Indian gambling.
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Steve Conner: A modern guide to making babies.
Click. Vincent Barnes:
Genetic engineering for better suburbia.
Click. Michael Tremoglie:
Who is behind attorney Lynne Stewart?
Click. CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit over his
remarks that several journalists who were killed by coalition forces in Iraq had
been targeted.
Click. New York City health officials have found one new
virulent HIV strain which progresses from infection to full-blown AIDS in two or
three months.
February 10, 2005
Click. For every dollar saved by capping outlays, far more would be spent by the
expanding cost of initiatives launched or okayed by the president.
Click.
Nancy A. Youssef: Former Bush administration favorite Ahmad Chalabi is lobbying
hard for the post of prime minister in the new Iraqi government that will be
formed after election officials finish counting the tally from last week's vote.
Click. Pepe Escobar: The Shi'ites' Faustian pact.
Click. Sidney Blumenthal:
Domestic gibberish.
Click. Memo urged Rice to meet on Al-Qaeda before Sept. 11 attacks.
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Helen Kennedy: Bush press pal Gannon quits over gay prostitute link.
Click. Cannonfire on "Gannon".
Click. Monterey County Recorder Stephen Vagnini cut off public access to original recorded documents such as
deeds, liens., Instead, the county is selling CDs with digital images of
recorded documents, which are available the day after they are received by the Recorder's Office.
Click. On handcuffed and felonious children.
Click. Disease outbreaks in Iraq.
Click. IBM: Cars face virus threat.
Click. Ranchers with carbon-copy bulls are fenced in by the public's distaste for
food derived
from such animals and delays in FDA approval.
February 9, 2005
Click. Kevin McKiernan:
Justice in Iraq?
Click. Midwest towns offer free land to newcomers.
Click. A 14-year-old boy went into cardiac arrest after Chicago
police shot him with a Taser, raising new questions about the weapon.
Click. Bush's red-ink budget doesn't include costs for war
Click. Rep. John Conyers, Jr.:
Fixing America's broken elections.
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Al Kennedy: A tale of two clans -- Bush and Kennedy.
Click. Constitution rejected in TSA screening.
Click. Plant gene transfer technology under a flexible intellectual property license.
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Pravda: Space cooperation with the U.S. will ruin Russia's space industry.
New Music Review:
Click. Stardom: SHOCK and ROLL RUSSIAN STYLE.
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Royal Navy release Tsunami images.
Click. John Hiscock:
New life in Sirhan's defense of his role in
the Robert F. Kennedy assassination.
Click. The CIA and Nazi war criminals.
February 8, 2005
Click. Richard A. Clarke:
Democracy won't end terrorism.
Click. David Kay:
Let's not make the same mistakes in Iran.
Click. Jane Mayer:
Outsourcing Torture. The secret history of America’s “extraordinary rendition” program.
Click. Saudi conference abandons attempts to define terrorism.
Click. George Monbiot:
Forget the UN. The US occupation regime helped itself to $8.8 bn of mostly Iraqi money in
just 14 months.
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Meg Kissinger: Anti-war generation watches its children go to war.
Click. Cutting an oil artery.
Click. Early returns in "Deep Throat" contest. Rehnquist by a landslide!
Click. John Dean:
Deep Throat ill, ID out soon.
Click. Bible use permitted during jury deliberations. Contra
Costa Judge Maximum Mary Ann O'Malley denies Justin Helzer a new trial despite a
juror's using a Bible verse during deliberations as a justification to impose the death penalty.
Click. D.A. snoozes case away. Napa Judge Stephen Kroyer dismisses case against alleged molester on due process grounds after 5 years and
20 continuances of jury trial.
February 7, 2005
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Rod Nordland and Babak Dehghanpisheh: What Sistani wants.
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Bill Powell, Tim McGirk: How Pakistan's A. Q. Khan outwitted Western intelligence to build a global nuclear-smuggling ring that made the world a more
dangerous place.
Click. The RAF Hercules transport plane that crashed in Iraq was hit by a Russian-made
surface-to-air missile that insurgents obtained from Iran.
Click. Bush's deficit plan is all in the math.
Click. Edmund L. Andrews:
Trim deficit? Only if Bush uses magic.
Click. U.S. government ratchets up public relations budget.
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West Coast electricity customers are still waiting for justice.
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Saul Cornell: How Bush's Justice Department rewrote history to satisfy the NRA.
Click. "Podcasting"
lets the masses do radio shows.
Click. Pro sports and war are completely separate things, but how often have you heard players called warriors, the
gridiron the battlefield?
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NEW MUSIC REVIEW: Stardom:
They Should Have Called it CRAPSTER.
Click. Pro sports and war are completely separate things, but how often have you heard players called warriors, the
gridiron the battlefield?
Click. Hey, what's in it for you? How will Bush's plan
affect your yearly social security benefit.
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Ehsan Ahrari: Sistani begins his true agenda.
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David Kay: Finding WMD will only get harder.
Click. Vote
fraud foe, Shelley, gets shafted in California.
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Kristen Lombardi: Activist Elena Sassower annoyed
congress, her trial judge, and defenders of free speech—all the way to jail.
February 6, 2005
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Isikoff, Hosenball: Outside hacker engaged in "Cyberintrusion"
into FBI emails. Officials fear had been tapping into supposedly secure
e-mail messages since late last year.
Pentagon attaches strings to hike in death gratuity
Bush Proposes $2.5 Trillion Spending Plan That Will Cut Scores of Programs but
Cheney Says Not With a 'meat ax'
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Stardom: Abu Gharib in FLORIDA.
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The terrorist believed to have flown a hijacked airliner into the
Pentagon on 9/11, obtained a California driver's license without providing the
required Social Security number for identification.
What Bin Laden Sees in Hiroshima
If Bush is now gunning for anyone, it's Syria
"Pre-emptive" study of Iran data started
Bin Laden's film maker sues Michael Moore
FBI Pushes to Expand Domain Into CIA's Intelligence Gathering
Alexander Ivanov: Appearance of Christ before the
people.
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Wayne Brown: Danse macabre in our time
Meanwhile: On the back 9 at My Lai
Interview: 'My hell in Guantanamo'
Amid Intelligence Turmoil, CIA Director's New Team in Place
Gloria
Borger: Scarlet isn't always red
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Scott McConnell: Hunger for dictatorship.
More than 300,000 celebrate Bob Marley in Ethiopia reggae fest
Some call him priest, church calls him fake
Spain's
health ministry to allow doctors to prescribe pot
Mayo Clinic Researchers Create 'Obedient Virus'; First Step To Use
Measles Virus Against Cancer
Rice Genome Approaches Completion
My addicted son
Firm tries to engineer sneezeless kitten for allergic cat fans
FDR's
death shows how much we've learned about the heart
Click. Richard Ostling: Three debates show the perennial fascination with ancient materials linked with the Bible.
CALIFORNIA NEWS....
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Los Angeles: Ambulance services have to be diverted to hospitals farther away
because of shortage in emergency room capacity. That puts patients in danger.
Click. Daniel Weintraub: Pat Brown, super pol? New book says not.
Click. IRS documents show ties between The Family sex cult and a tax-exempt foundation that raises money for projects around world.
Click. Debra Saunders: Greed, fraud and politics.
Click. Joan Ryan: Mysterious death of Nuremburg psychiatrist.
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Cabazon tribe's police are unhappy they can't is tap into state and
federal law enforcement databases.
Santa Barbara County Facing Big Expenses for Jackson Trial
February 5, 2005
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Steven Thomma: The destruction of Social Security is a long-standing conservative dream.
Click. Bill Moyers:
There is no tomorrow.
Click. Documents reveal CIA recruited five of Eichmann's associates +
Click. Eichmann Capture Details Released for Publication.
Juan Cole on Iraq
Pat Buchanan: Richard Nixon’s Revenge
Spiking news that could have made Kerry President
Spanish Judge Sends Two Brothers to Jail, Frees Parents, in Connection With Madrid Terror Bombings
Saudi Arabia Proposes International Anti-Terrorism Center to Stop Attacks
Robert Fisk: History by Laptop
Homeland Security to build Maryland biological defense center
San Francisco: Court ruling
protects Marcos' assets. Victims of his reign in Philippines had hoped for damages
Frederic Remington: Indian Scouts in the Moonlight
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A Decade After a Drug Revolutionizes Stroke Care, Only 3 Percent Get It +
Few Recognize Symptoms of a Stroke
Researchers Probe Antarctica's Shifting Ice, 'not Sure What's Going On'
Ancient Beasts Raise Questions About Climate Change
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Matthew Duerston: Who’ll Stop the Reign? Taking down the country’s most murderous prison gang, The Aryan Brotherhood.
Secretary of State Shelley quits, says controversies over fund raising, use of
federal money and his volatile temper damaged his office's 'ability to function effectively'
Click. Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute cut the
ribbon Friday on a $5.8 million biocontainment facility for studying infectious
diseases that in the future could include nonvirulent anthrax bacteria
Investors fight over tribal casino take
Governor Schwarzenegger renounces casino-size role
Martinez: Judge delays deciding if sex offender can move. Verse tells crowd at
public hearing he's also been abused
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Chrisanne Beckner: The Waldorf charter schools tend toward the metaphysical in approach, but is
that religious teaching? A federal-court judge will decide.
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Josh Indar: The re-licensing of Oroville Dam is this century's first great water fight.
February 4, 2005
Click. Paul McGeough:
The bagman bankrolling the insurgency -- dubbed the "Zarqawi of the Iraqi underworld.
Click. Lawmakers criticize FBI Director Mueller for continued problems with a costly computer project that was supposed
to dramatically improve management of terrorism and other criminal cases.
Click. Jesselyn Radack:
A whistle-blower's inside view of Michael Chertoff.
Click. Andrew Caffrey:
Bush social security plan holds promise for Wall St. Only a few big
players would benefit initially, but as accounts grow more firms could gain.
Click. Canadians fight to keep their medical records out of the hands of the
U.S. government.
Click. Author now suspects "Deep Throat" was George H. W. Bush.
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NEW MUSIC - A REVIEW: STARDOM:
TEGAN and SARA.
February 3, 2005
Click. Dave Lindorf: How Chertoff hid torture.
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Sidney Blumenthal: Utopian cul-de-sac.
Click. Lance Gay: Feds hide snafus under guise of national security.
Click. A U.S. senator Mike DeWine has demanded that the CIA director release thousands of pages of documents detailing the agency's ties
with former Nazis.
Click. Bill Moyers Interviews Chuck Spinney: "They don't know where
the money's going. Well, guess what the Senate Armed Services and the House Armed Services agree to
do in their infinite wisdom? They decided to waive the Pentagon's requirement
for these annual audits in their authorization bills."
Click. Juan Cole: Karl Rove's memo to Bush on the Middle East.
Click. Larry Chin: The King of the Night's darkest hour. Johnny Carson and the Kennedy assassination.
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Jonna M. Spilbor: When the key witness is a kid. Preparing prospective jurors in the case against Michael Jackson.
Click. Maine newspaper sues for brain-harvest documents.
Click. Settlement reached in brain harvesting lawsuit, but case not over.
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Organisms found in deepest part of the ocean.
February 2, 2005
Gonzales OK could be seen as OK for torture rules
AP Exclusive: Videos of Riot Squads at Guantanamo Show Prisoners Being Punched
and Stripped From the Waist Down
Iraq's $200 billion election
Juan Cole reports
China, Russia Announce Security Consultation Plan
Nurses group punches back at Schwarzenegger in TV ad campaign +
'Simple' budget plan actually quite tricky
Safe harbor for gay bigotry
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Theft of SAIC Computers Containing Stockholder Personal Information.
Rise
of German Right-Wing Party Evokes Ghosts of Past
How the
Camera Became a Weapon
Which Search Engine Is The Best?
The Unicorn in Captivity
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Honeybee parasite threatens crop pollination across the nation
Cancer Pill Proves Effective
Women Still Treated Less for Heart Disease
Software Taming Gene Data Pool
150 years and the lighthouse is still on
February 1, 2005
New book says United States has five secret military bases in Israel
Pepe Escobar: Why the U.S. will not leave Iraq
Judge bans Guantanamo military trials
US military is the big threat now
Two Provincial German Towns Emerging as Unlikely Center of Islamic Extremism
Click. Evelyn Pringle:
Jeb, Marvin & Neil - 3 Profiteering Bush Brothers.
Microsoft takes on Google and Yahoo!
Phishing morphs into
pharming (hijacking domain names)
Murdered director Theo Van Gogh's film shelved
Birds rise in intellectual pecking order
Stardom: DOCTORS AND HOSPITALS ARE EVIL
Mexico's 'Nectar of the Gods' Dies a Slow Death
The Unicorn in Captivity
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Prosecutors rest case vs. Shanley
For God and company
Copywrongs
January 31, 2005
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Juan Cole: The Iraq election. First impressions.
Click. Deborah Tannen: Time for talk: Bush's triumph of marketing over dialogue.
Click. Harry
Browne: Why I am obsessed with war.
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Bill Weinberg: Welcome to World War IV.
Click. Justin Raimondo:
Sistani's triumph.
Al Jazeera Airs Video of UK Plane Shootdown
Audit: US Lost $9 Billion in Iraq
Kerry blames defeat on Bin Laden
Action Hero or Mere Mortal: Schwarzenegger Sees His Ratings Dip
Critics Pressure Mexican Federal Prosecutor as Third Report on Border Killings Comes Due
NAACP Refuses to Cooperate With IRS Probe Into Allegedly Political Activity
January 30, 2005
Voting Held in Iraq's First Free Election in a Half-Century, Attacks on Polling Stations Kill 44
Bush Calls Iraq Election a Voice of Freedom From Center of Middle East
Military: British Military Plane Crashes North of Baghdad; Blair Confirms Deaths
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The peace was lovely but it won't last.
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Dyer: U.S. is expelling the last of its 9/11 angst by prodding Iran.
Click. The CIA is refusing to provide
hundreds of thousands of pages of documents sought by a government working group
under a 1998 law that requires full disclosure of classified records related to
Nazi war criminals.
Doctors make
eye cells see light
Edouard Manet, The Old Musician
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Greenspan and His Inner Circle Guide Economic Destiny of Millions Behind Ornate Closed Doors
Women are the deciding factor in the Social Security debate
Slower arrival at fires in US is costing lives
See Dick Compute: Teaching Computers to Read No ABC Affair
Click. Jack Wilson: Beyond stem cells.
Click. Stem cells become human nerve cells in study.
Click. Reifman: A Microsoft millionaire
wonders if his money can express his values.
Click. "Coroner to the stars" fashioned his own kind of bully pulpit.
Click. Gaye LeBaron: Fur trade was once big business on North Coast of California.
January 29, 2005
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US jets "flying over Iran to spot potential targets".
Iran puzzle: U.S. and Europe on separate tracks
Click. Homeland Security nominee Chertoff vetted the CIA's
interrogation methods and advised the agency on the legality of coercion techniques.
Click. Sen. Barbara Boxer, loudspeaker for left, steps into spotlight
Guilty until proven guiltier
Robert Fisk: This
Election Will Change the World, But Not as the US Wanted
New PNAC letter
Microsoft's Gates Bets Against the Dollar, Calls Currency's Status `Scary'
Occidental, Other U.S. Companies Win Rights to Explore for Oil in Libya
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Quicken disables the software you paid for to force paid upgrades.
Click. Mark Gaffney:
NASA searches for a snowball in hell.
Ruth Kelly's faith and politics (Opus Dei) can't be separated
Click. Marjie Lundstrom: Development dispute has deep roots in Rattlesnake Island.
Stanislaus judge need not testify about missing discs
The greatest show on earth - the Jackson trial
$1 million baby? More like £4,000 woman
Childe Hassam: Flower Girl
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January 28, 2005
Click. Is the world safer now?
Click. Fred Kaplan:
CIA report says that American global dominance could end in 15 years.
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Russian officers "helped in plot to seize Beslan school".
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Halliburton plans to exit Iran. (Before the bombs fall?)
Click. U.S. opens security probe of IBM's sale of PC unit.
Click. North Korea has bought complete nuclear bomb.
Click. Juan Cole:
Feith Resigns Under Pressure of Investigations.
Click. Amber Frey did what Gary Condit wouldn't.
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Dennis Kyne: At Hunters Point Shipyard,
cyclotron smashed atoms where Lennar wants to build homes.
Click. Amadi Ajamu:
Guinea pig kids.
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Janette Sherman, M.D.: A dangerous gamble: Nuclear power, earthquakes and tsunamis.
Click. New World native genetics.
Click. The pending first-degree San Mateo murder trial of police killer Marvin Sullivan could be the first test in California of a recent
U.S. Supreme Court decision setting parameters for forcibly administering
medications to defendants.
January 27, 2005
Click. Richard Sale: USAF playing cat and mouse game over Iran.
Click. Iran vows 'astonishing' response to any U.S., Israeli attack.
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Syed Saleem Shahzad: U.S. keeps Iran in its sights.
Click. Senator Robert Byrd: Voting no on the nomination of Dr. Rice.
Click. Jim Lobe:
From Holocaust to hyperpower.
Click. Kurt Nimmo:
Good riddance Douglas Feith.
Click. Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult
Click. Peggy Noonan: Further thoughts on the passions of the inaugural.
Click. Gore Vidal on Bush's Inaugural Address: "The Most Un-American Speech I've Ever Heard."
Click. Widow of former Enron executive Cliff Baxter gets apology from Sugarland,
Texas over missing evidence regarding her husband's death.
Click. Marjie Lundstrom: Want to know if you ate tainted meat? Why California won't tell you.
Click. The California State Department of Health Services received about $100 million in federal
funds to fight bioterrorism, and officials can't account for it.
Click. George Butters: Your computer may be housing child porn without your knowing it.
Click. Randy Dotinga: "The intersection between virtual
reality and mental health treatment."
January 24, 2005
Click. Storm clouds gather for Iraq's ill-omened election.
Iran
Launches Rapid Deployment Force
India and China to discuss strategic issues
Click. Many in the Arab world are looking to Russia to help counter America’s hegemonic position on the world stage. Is it
a wise choice?
The hermit nuclear kingdom
Codebreaker unlocks the 3,000 secrets of US military vocabulary
Albert Bierstadt: Seal Rock
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Mariah Blake: Tin Soldier
Inventing Sherlock Holmes
Tutankhamun: So who was the golden boy?
January 23, 2005
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Barton Gellman: Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld's Domain and Some Question Background of Unit's Leader.
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Ralph McGehee: CIABASE. CIA Support of Death Squads.
Click. H.D.S. Greenway. The White Room.
U.S. Soldier Killed in Northern Iraq Flashpoint
AP Exclusive: Nixon-Era Terrorism Task Force Envisioned Today's Threats
Click. Maureen Dowd: A bunch of krabby patties.
Vasiliy Polenov. They Brought the Children. From "The Life of Christ".
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Soviet Army Veteran Who Helped Liberate Auschwitz Is Going Back to Mark 60th Anniversary of Its Capture
Click. In the debate over Social Security changes, one word is key.
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Cheney firm's multi-billion pound project to build Britain's biggest ever warships.
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Robert Harris: Rome's lost library. The intellectual inheritance of western civilization is at stake
Click. Lowell Selvin: On the record. Planetout.
January 22, 2005
Outcry over creation of GM smallpox virus
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Sandra Blakesly: Mad cow disease has long been thought to occur in just
the brains and nervous systems of infected animals. But scientists reported
Friday that the proteins thought to cause the disease can travel to other organs as well.
Click. Juan Cole: The political season in Iraq is turning extremely nasty.
Procedures for Voting in the Iraqi Election
Click. Keeping America in the Dark. An interview with Seymour Hersh.
Click. Robert Fisk: Not even Saddam could achieve the divisions this election will bring.
Robert F. Kennedy
Fears Becoming Tabloid Fodder and a Gets Quick Taste of it.
Bush Sr.: President Not Shifting Policy
Jan Vermeer: The Lacemaker, 1669-1670.
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Click. Susan Paynter: Two sides to school "kill list": Action or inaction.
Click. David Ivanovich: Interview with James A. Baker IV.
Politics pervade world oil business.
Bush Pulls 'Neocons' Out of the Shadows
Is Opus Dei at work in Blair's government?
State Senator Defends Polygamy After Colleague Distributes Book Criticizing the Practice
Click. Mike Whitney: Falling upwards. The rise of Michael Chertoff.
Automatic
Medicare enrollments to begin next fall
Huge Iceberg Runs Aground
Man Held in Texas Teen's Abduction, Death
FBI: One of Chinese Suspects Already in Custody, No Terror Connection Found
Militant Logistics Coordinator May Link Sept. 11, Madrid Attacks
California Indian gaming
tribes to meet after a rocky year
Norman
Mailer: America's
war with the invisible kingdom of Satan
Mexican Archaeologists Unearthing Evidence to Support Depiction of Ancient Sacrifice
Click. Movies like "Braveheart" and "Legends of the Fall" are on the
viewing list for men in a growing Christian movement that calls for them to
throw off their "nice guy" personas and emulate warriors.
Marjie Lundstrom: Police blotter of the weird follows Arcata's criminal high jinks
January 21, 2005
Click. James Harding: Bush's "over the top" speech reveals divisions.
Click. Paul Richter: Cheney adds Israel to the Iran equation.
Click. Joshua Frank:
Democrats support Bush's Iran policy.
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William Blum: Imperial wonderland.
Click. KGB chieftain finds home at Homeland Security.
Click. Jackie Burrell: Pleasant Hill, California.
U.S. Army recruiters turned College Park High School's quad into a lunchtime shooting range Wednesday.
Click. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cancelled a planned visit to Germany after a US human rights
organization asked German authorities to prosecute him for war crimes, Deutsche
Presse-Agentur (dpa) has learned.
Click. Bob Barr:
Is it time to reform intelligence reform?
January 20, 2005
Click. The US won't require mental-health testing for all children...yet.
Click. From the axis of evil to the outposts of tyranny.
Click. Nat Perry: "Bush reportedly is asserting, too, that his mandate puts him above post-Vietnam War laws that require a president
to inform Congress of covert operations and get war-powers approval...."
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Rick Perlstein: "George Walker Bush's revolutionary second term, where nothing is done by accident...."
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Karen Kwiatkowski: Ball gowns and hospital gowns.
Click. Sidney Blumenthal: Bush is taking
a huge gamble with his assault on the social contract.
Click. Sam Smith: On the west side of the Capitol.
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Pravda: Russia's far north to promote "American" governor?
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Juan Cole: Rice doublespeak.
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Is the FBI covering up its spies?
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Stardom: HACKTIVISTS Against Bush.
Click. Homeland security briefings captured online for all to see..
Click. Google keeps
track of every search that’s made, as well as the Internet location of the
computer from which the search is taking place — and then it stores that information for possible future use.
Click. Don Lattin: Oakland native David "Moses" Berg,
the founding seer of the Children of God, put forth a prophecy about his new
wife and new son on May 2, 1978. "Davidito and Maria are going to be end
time witnesses...They are going to be killed.
Click. HOW D.A. JIM BRAZELTON DECIDES WHO TO PROSECUTE?
Click.
A powerhouse law firm that represents nearly every school district in Monterey
County and many throughout California has been sanctioned by a federal judge for lying, misrepresenting
evidence and dragging a case out for years.
January 19, 2005
Click. Search underway for six who may pose terrorist threat to Boston.
FBI Investigating 'Dirty Bomb' Threat in Boston
Israel to carry out assassinations in other countries including targeted
killings within the United States
Doubts cast on Bush Social Security plan
Click. Bush
is actually speaking as a prophet of God?
Cuba Accuses United States of Lying to the World About Treatment of Prisoners at
Guantanamo Bay
Click. Lisa Pease: Is "Nemesis" a Black Book?
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Ron Russell: Why are District Attorneys in San
Mateo, Marin and San Francisco helping S.F. Archbishop William Levada keep
decades of alleged sexual misconduct by his clerics secret?
A case the
Archdiocese doesn't want you to know about: Fast
times at Marin Catholic High
January 18, 2005
Click. The weapon that could defeat the U.S. in the Persian
Gulf -- the "Sunburn"-- Iran's awesome nuclear anti-ship missile.
Click. Julian Borger: Now US ponders attack on Iran.
Click. Iran says "No country can attack us."
Click. Sam Hamod: Senator Boxer shows Condi Rice to be a liar.
Click. Lucy Morgan: Veiled sect hails Bush, Martinez.
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Robert Fisk: Hotel room journalism. The US press in Iraq.
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Dominic Timms: Fearful US TV networks censor more shows.
Click. George Monbiot: A televisual fairyland.
Click. How the Scots Irish screwed up America
Click. David Cohn:
Open source biology evolves.
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"We drove a full-scale WMD 800 miles across the United States and no one stopped or questioned us."
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Deanna Swift: On the inaugural menu: A dish to please every donor.
Click. Jeff Sharlet: In the post-9/11 healing boom, a new
battery of mystics like Sondra Shaye are raking it in.
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Michelangelo Signorile: Gay Abe, Gay Susan Sontag, the difficulties of outing the dead.
January 17, 2005
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Seymour M. Hersh: The coming wars. What the Pentagon can now do in secret.
Pentagon Faults Iran Raid Report
FROM
THE MAE BRUSSELL ARCHIVE
by
Virginia McCullough, Curator
Click. Mae
Brussell's research about the life and death of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Louisiana will pardon a civil rights activist in honor of MLK Day
Click. Chuck
Zlatkin: Happy birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christian Archbishop Seized in Mosul as Attacks Leave More Than 20 Dead; Top U.S. General Warns of Election Day Violence
Click. German stock market operator Deutsche Boerse has approved a possible cash offer for the London Stock Exchange.
Rice Goes From the Inside to The Front
Smallpox Exercise Poses Big Question: Is Anyone Ready?
Islamic headscarf, cleavage, keys to new Russian showbiz celebrity success
January 16, 2004
Report: U.S. Conducting Secret Missions Inside Iran
Japan's anti-war stance turning to "active pacifism'"
Rising Violence and Fear Drive Iraq Campaigners Underground
Click. Richard Cohen: Bush tough only with CBS, not his cabinet.
Click. William O'Rourke: Feigned ignorance is strength.
The final collapse of the case against Captain Yee
Click. Stardom: Return of The World's Most Hated Website.
How CBS' Big Story Fell Apart
Wilbert Rideau: From Gin Joint Thug to Honored Prison Journalist and Now Freedom
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, The Supper at Emmaus, 1622–23 Enlarge
From Grand Jury Leaks Comes a Clash of Rights
Courtney Love regains custody of her daughter
Click. Susan Schwartz: "Boomer women, especially those with bag
lady fears, have a huge stake in what happens to Social Security."
Protests Over Welfare Cuts Snarl St. Petersburg for Second Day, as the Movement
Among Russia's Elderly Spreads Across the Nation
On Issues or Travel, New Term Offers Laura Bush a Chance to Wander off the Beaten Path
Rocklin, California: 4,000 years of American Indian life
Oakdale California historian digging up past
Click. Gaye LeBaron: Persistence pays off with restoration of Santa Rosa Creek.
Running with the Hemingways
The sun
also rises over Hemingway house feud
Shakespeare May Have Suffered From Syphilis
Spokane's gays seek own district
A boost for the world's smallest rabbit
January 15, 2005
Click. Biowar terror game shows lack of readiness.
Click. Graner says he was ordered to abuse prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Click. Tom Ridge: U.S. should not rule out torture.
Click. White House downplays interrogation rules story.
Click. Don Lattin:
Rage turns to vengeance against the "Family" cult. Anguished ex-cult member decried years
of abuse before killing 'molester' and himself.
Antoine Watteau: Couple seated on the ground.
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The 19-year-old Marine who gunned down two police officers in Ceres, California,
was a Norteño gang member who plotted a deadly attack on police, not a veteran
suffering the stress of war, investigators said Friday.
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Probe finds double life's dark side.
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Police and military investigators say one thing, Andres Raya's family says another.
Click. Over the objections of many of its own employees, the Social
Security Administration is gearing up for a major effort to back Bush's privatization plan.
Click. Chavez cuts ties with Colombia after Colombia's abduction of a FARC leader within Venezuela's jurisdiction.
Click. James Petras:
The kidnapping of a
revolutionary.
Click. Heart of old Baghdad giving out.
Click. Robert Fisk:
Flying carpet airlines. My return to Baghdad.
Click. Juan Cole:
"Absolutely"?
Click. BBC:
The power of nightmares.
Documents Show FBI Pursued Widespread Probe of Leaker in Gotti Case
Click. Tom Barry:
Robert Zoellick, a
"Bush Family Man".
Judge Sues Boston Herald Reporter for Libel Over Comment Allegedly Made About Rape Victim
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Greg Haidl's latest doctor says the gang-rape suspect desperately needs counseling...and
a hug.
Peanuts Rival Fruit As Source Of Health-promoting Antioxidants, Researchers Say
University Of Chicago Researchers Discovered That Human Beings Are A "Privileged"
Evolutionary Lineage
Stem Cell Therapy For Ailing Hearts
Click. Tinker, Gadfly, Soldier, Spy. Meet the man whom Emeryville has
spent almost three decades trying to make just go away.
Click. Robert Gammon: The East Bay sniper is still free. At least, so say
some of the people who jailed the wrong man. (Sheriff Plummer vs. CHP's
top guys.)
January 14, 2004
Click. Roland Flamini: Analysis: There will be no observers at
the Iraq elections.
Click. Eli Lake:
Amid talk of withdrawal, Pentagon is taking steps for longer stay in Iraq.
Click. Iraq now training ground for terrorists, CIA says.
Click. Robert Fisk:
Fear and voting in Baghdad.
Click. Bryon Bender: War's "hidden cost" called heavy.
Click. Eric Lichtblau: FBI may scrap overhaul of its outdated computer system.
Click. The FBI is keeping records of millions of travelers who flew in the months before 9/11.
Click. Daniel Weintraub: Cyborg budgeting: Governor Schwarzenegger wants remote control.
Click. Whistleblower charges Justice Department with
misconduct in Chertoff's prosecution
of John Walker Lindh.
Click. 11 U.S. coastal cities are ready for a Tsunami.
January 12, 2005
Click. Researchers have made an unexpectedly sudden advance in synthesizing long molecules of DNA, bringing
them
closer to the goal of redesigning genes and programming cells.
Click.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is essentially staging the
first constitutional convention in 126 years with a special election to revamp
the jumbled California Constitution his way.
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Staff "purge" at U.S. Office of Special Counsel, the principal protector of
federal whistle blowers.
Click. Greg Palast:
CBS cowardice and conflicts behind purge.
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Ridgeway, Duarte: Big bad Michael Chertoff.
Click. Hacker breaches T-Mobile systems, reads U.S. Secret Service email.
Click. Armed combat robots headed for Iraq.
Click. Air Force official says his service suffers from leadership vacuum.
Click. Miami-Dade grand jury proposes expanded use of Taser stun guns.
Click. Matt Smith:
Huge unfolding American corporate scandal so massive it
compares with WorldCom, Global Crossing, and other high-profile corporate
frauds in terms of scope, complexity, and amount of money involved.
Click. Teens may be charged with hate crime for attacking Satanist.
January 11, 2005
Click. Robert Scheer: Is Al Qaeda just a Bush boogeyman?
Click. Marie Cocco: Democrats' fury, and values, go AWOL.
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Robert Parry: Bush's "death squads".
Click. No way to run a war on terror says female CIA agent who has just resigned.
Click. Chilling tragedy in Ceres, California, leaves questions for the military.
Click. Schwarzenegger proposes "giant" changes in California's Medi-Cal program.
Click. Benedict Carey: The secret lives of just about everybody.
January 10, 2005
Click. From behind the scenes Dina Powell recruits Bush's team.
Click. Junior officers weren’t prepared for Iraq. So they’re training each other—online
Click. Arrogance of power in Los Angeles.
Click. 20th January 1607. Giant wave rips through Wales.
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Halliburton wins a contract in Iran.
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THE NEW FACE OF ALBERTO R. GONZALES, HERE AT LAST FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE
by Kathryn Joanne Dixon
January 9, 2004
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Michael Hirsh, John Barry: Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq.
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Let Bin Laden stay free, says CIA man.
Click. Afghan government weighing
amnesty for wealthy drug traffickers, officials say.
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Governor Schwarzenegger's budget will hurt many.
Click. Eileen McNamara: Flunking the swab test.
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Review of the book "The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln."
Jacopo Tintoretto: Christ at the Sea of Galilee
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Fight to preserve Civil War battlefields continues.
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Tokyo firm plans underground farm.
Click. She has a way with Shakespeare.
January 8, 2004
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Stardom: Portuguese Procedure. STEM CELL Operations.
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Eugene Bingham: Tsunami bomb New Zealand's devastating war secret.
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Eugene Bingham: Devastating tsunami bomb viable, say experts.
Click. Fitrakis, Rosenfeld & Wasserman: Together, we moved three mountains.
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Chuck Zlatkin: It almost looked real.
Click. Gene Vitamanti: So what are Bush's values. (Fate of allowing
shareholders to nominate directors for corporate boards.)
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Daniel Sokol: Culture proves a critical factor in epidemics.
Click. Jerry Mitchell: Killen pleads not guilty in civil rights killings.
Venezuela Considers Seizure of British-Owned Ranch as Part of Land Reform
Lasers Are Regulated, but Powerful Versions Are Available Online
Paying Ex-Weapons Scientists to Resist Temptation, U.S. Squirrel Expert Is Unlikely Patron in Iraq
Frederic Remington:
Indian scouts in the moonlight.
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AP Interview: Gingrich Criticizes Bush, Open to Presidential Run
Prosecutors Offer Deal to Accused Former Guantanamo Translator in Latest Spy Case to Fall Apart
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India may be the first country to explain to the world about extra-terrestrial and UFO contacts – the secret
debate is on.
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Notorious heron patched up, but still unlikely to fly straight.
January 7, 2004
Click. CIA report slams top officials over terrorism readiness.
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Justin Raimondo: Gonzales and the torture cult.
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Brian J. Foley: Supporting torture is not Gonzales' greatest sin.
Click. Jack
Shafer: The CIA and the Riggs bank.
Click. Greg Mitchell: Why our embedding reporters don't tell all.
Click. Frank Rich:
For real war on terror, turn to fiction.
January 6, 2004
Click. Margaret Carlson: Forget Iraq and South Asia, it's party time.
Click. An estimating system that Halliburton Co. subsidiary KBR uses to
calculate costs for supporting U.S. troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan has
won approval from the Pentagon's contract-management agency.
Click. Saul Landau: Sex in the country.
Click. The Patriot Act could turn an innocuous trip to
the bank or chat with a financial planner into
a Treasury Department probe of personal financial accounts.
Click. Prosecutors told a judge today that an alleged victim of defrocked priest
Paul Shanley might refuse to testify if he's publicly identified during the upcoming sexual abuse trial.
Click. Marjie Lundstrom:
Time for
Governor Schwarzenegger, the child's advocate to step up.
January 5, 2004
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Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio. Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee
Democratic Staff. Executive Summary. Wednesday January 5, 2005.
Click. Richard Cohen: George Orwell's nominee for Attorney General.
Click. Elaine Cassel:
They say they can lock you up for life without a trial.
Click. William Pfaff:
On all sides, the fanatics had a good year.
Click. Dubious purge at the CIA.
Click. Jim Hightower:
Costco is different...and that really POs Wall Street.
Click. The criminal case against defrocked priest Paul R. Shanley, perhaps the most notorious of all Catholic clergy involved in
the sexual abuse scandal, will soon hinge only on the allegations of a single accuser.
January 4, 2005
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Seyed Shahzad: Al Qaeda's unfinished work.
Click. Justice Scalia: Church-state separation didn't protect Jews in Holocaust
Click. Robert Scheer: Backing Gonzales is backing torture.
Click. Paul Krugman: Stopping the bum's rush.
Click. Robert Fisk:
A mire of death, lies and atrocities.
Click. Robert Parry:
On January 6th, will John Kerry report for duty?
Click. Katrina vanden Heuvel: Ken Lay would love Social Security privatization.
Click. Stardom:
The Poorest Country in the EU Offers UNIQUE Disaster Relief.
Click. Godel and Einstein, friendship and relativity.
January 3, 2004
Click. The US and Australia have made the humanitarian challenge in
the tsunami disaster zone a security priority and plan to pour billions of
dollars into the region to stop it turning into a breeding ground for Islamic
radicalism and terrorism.
Click. America urged to devise "Marshal Plan" for Asia.
Click. The Indian Ocean
provides major sea routes connecting Middle East, Africa, and East Asia with
Europe and the Americas. It carries heavy traffic of petroleum from the
oilfields of the Persian Gulf and Indonesia. Large reserves of hydrocarbons are
being tapped in the offshore areas of Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, and western
Australia. An estimated 40% of the world's offshore oil production comes from
the Indian Ocean. Beach sands are rich in heavy minerals. Thanks for this
link to site: Mackwhite.com
Click. Leonard David: Anatomy of a spy satellite.
Click.
John J. Lumpkin: For the first time in 30 years, a large part of American
society (1 million) will have acquired combat experience.
Click. Benjamin Soskis: It's time to start thinking about how we
might grant legal rights to computers.
Click. Judge Alex Kozinski: The appearance of propriety.
Click. Elaine Cassel: Brush up on your Solzhenitsyn.
Click. Cannonfire on vote fraud.
Click. Justin Raimondo:
Today's Conservatives are Fascists.
January 2, 2005
U.S. prepares long-term plan for jailing of terror suspects. More permanent
approach sought for indefinite detainment
US intelligence shake-up meets growing criticism
Helen Thomas: Don't expect miracles in the second term
Stardom: PAYPAL
Donaters: BEWARE of PHISHING and Other Traps
Oscar Edmund Berninghaus, The Faithful Ponies,
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This is the Chinese century
Click. Nashua
Advocate: Washington State Republican Party inadvertently backs position of Ohio
contestors, calls for certification challenge and re-vote.
The
world of Christopher Marlowe, a brawler and a spy
Firm matches Icelanders' genetic makeup with region they come from. Test
tracking ancestry to island's geography is part of effort to unravel human diseases
Researchers in Mexico offer ideas about religion, evolution. Oaxaca Valley
proves fruitful for archaeologists
January 1, 2005
Click.
Top 10 war profiteers of 2004. (You know it's bad when Halliburton is Number 7.)
Click.
In the middle of Iraq, it's gaming, gaming, gaming for the American military.
Click. Kimberly Hefling:
Army medics are getting more
intensive training as Iraqi insurgents turn up the pressure.
Click.
After the Tsunami -- watch out for something big and military to happen in Asia.
Click.
Michel Chossudovsky: The ultimate weapon of mass destruction: "Owning the weather" for military use.
Click.
Susan Mazur: Unspooking Frank Carlucci.
Click.
What is the Associated Press hiding about the Ohio election?
George Bellows: Love of Winter
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Masden: End of the year update on the voter fraud investigation.
Click. The California Youth Authority goes to reform school.
Click.
Gustavo Arellano: Boy-buggering Bingo! 10 unlikely winners and losers in the Orange Diocese sodomy sweepstakes.
Click. California court rules that the Los Angeles City Council must listen to people.
Click. Judge in Spokane Washington says pregnant woman can't divorce.
Click.
R. Scott Moxley: How the son of an Orange County assistant sheriff manipulated the courts and the law.
Click.
Gary Webb: The Crack-Up. What the CIA knew about the drug trade in its own words.
December 31, 2004
Click.
Gordon Prather: Bay of Pigs redux in Iran?
Click.
Stardom: God Didn't Do It, Dammit!
Click.
Michel Chossudovsky: Foreknowledge of a natural disaster: Washington was aware that a deadly tidal wave was building up on the
Indian Ocean.
Click. Why
weren't CNN and BBC used more to warn of the Tsunami?
Click.
Tsunami relief as a subterfuge? The Pentagon scrambles to reenter its old Thai Air Base.
Click.
Andrew Limburg: EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI: COINCIDENCE OR A CORPORATE OIL TRAGEDY?
Click. Ready for election fraud protests? "The Marines will take over parts of downtown Toledo,
Ohio as sounds
of gunfire will echo off buildings when training exercises are conducted next weekend."
Click. Cannonfire on vote fraud.
Click.
Robert Parry: A "long war" against whom?
Click.
Justin Raimondo: The great crime spree of 2004.
Click. Homeland Security's money-laundering rules may put small businesses under.
Click. Unintelligent design.
Click. California Attorney General's office warns a developer that if he doesn't drop a racketeering suit against foes of a proposed
luxury condo project at the edge of the San Bernardino National Forest, the state will take up the matter with the judge.
Click.
Susan Sontag: Looking at war.
Click. D.H. Lawrence: Auld Lang Syne Rynm
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Dance
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December 30, 2004
Click. A. Q. Khan's secrets.
Click. Blog from soldier on patrol in Mosul.
Click. The end of meritocracy in America?
Click. Technical hurdles separate terrorists from biowarfare.
Click. Sidney Blumenthal: George Bush has purged the last of his father's senior advisers, handing
over control to his neocon allies.
Click.
Bush dynasty premiers Jeb Bush (next President?) in his world-leader debut by sending him
with Secretary of State Powell, to survey the Tsnunami damage in Asia.
Click. No good choices.
Click.
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GARY WEBB
1955 - 2004 RIP
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GARY WEBB'S MEMORIAL
The questions it raised,
The questions it answered
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GARY WEBB STORY INTERPRETED.
Researchers, writers and readers at work.
by Virginia McCullough
Click. Victor Flores Olea: A Bush USA assumes a "divine" right to rule. And that means trouble.
Click. Cannonfire on vote fraud.
Click. William Rivers Pitt: Rep. Conyers to object to Ohio electors, requests Senate allies.
Click.
"Mrs. Clinton’s network is broad
and largely female, packed with some of the nation’s most experienced political
operatives and spanning cities, generations and ethnic groups."
Click. Arianna Huffington: In these cases better to forget than forgive.
Click.
Justin Nyberg: California gay partners receive legal responsibilities under domestic partners law.
Click. Ready, aim, slaughter wild horses and burros.
Click. Forget OPEC! The next cartel may export drinking water.
Click. University of California Davis team predicted Tsunami quake.
Click. Ray Bilger: Human engineered earthquakes.
December 29, 2004
Click.
Andrew Limburg: EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI: COINCIDENCE OR A CORPORATE OIL TRAGEDY?
Click. PG&E will search storage pool in Eureka to try to find its four pounds of missing radioactive fuel rods.
Click. John Nichols:
Rule one: Count every vote.
Click. Clarence Page:
Bush's lump of coal for students.
Click. Juan Cole:
Where's Bush?
Click. Charles A. Krohn:
In Iraq, echoes of another offensive -- Tet.
Click. Here are the photos, the basis of the six Navy SEAL's lawsuit vs. the Associated Press.
Click. Joseph Dolman:
It's payback time, baby! Tax plan would send blue states into the red.
Click. Fisk:
In this mire of death, lies and atrocities, we glimpse the
ghost
of Vietnam.
Click. PDF FILE In Moss v. Bush, Judge Moyer denies the
emergency motion to preserve evidence of vote fraud on pleading technicalities regarding the affidavits and exhibits in
support of the motion.
Click. Judge Moyer refuses to recuse himself.
Click. Cannonfire on vote fraud.
Click. Political
strategist Fertik issues stirring appeal: An Open Letter to Senator Kerry on
Irregularities, Fraud, and Conspiracies.
Click.
Stardom: BLOGGING And THE DISASTER: Also DONATION INFORMATION.
Click. Ancient roots of elitism.
Gemstones
First Andes civilization explored
GARY WEBB'S MEMORIAL
SERVICE.
The questions it raised,
The questions it answered
Click. by
Virginia McCullough
(Note: The picture used as a banner for the Gary Webb
article is Chapel Perilous by Anonymous.)
Click. Gary Webb's Last Story: The Killing Game
by Ellen Komp
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GARY WEBB
1955 - 2004 RIP
Click. by
Virginia McCullough
Click. David Lazarus:
Where is that darn uranium?
Click.
Andrew Limburg: EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI: COINCIDENCE OR A CORPORATE OIL TRAGEDY?
Click. Minutes after a massive earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean on Sunday, scientists knew that a tsunami
would likely follow. But they didn't know whom to tell.
"Tsunami warning was
stopped".
Source: Expressen (Swedish online newspaper)
Just minutes after the earthquake in the Indian Ocean on Sunday morning,
Thailand's foremost meteorological experts were sitting together in a crisis
meeting. But they decided not to warn about the tsunami "out of courtesy to the
tourist
Herri Met de Bles. St. John on Patmos. c. 1535-50.
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industry", write the Thailand daily newspaper The Nation.
The experts got the news around 8:00 am on Sunday morning local time. An hour
later, the first massive wave struck. But the experts started to discuss the
economic impacts when they were discussing if a tsunami warning should be made.
The main argument against such a warning was that there have not been any floods
in 300 years. Also, the experts believed the Indonesian island Sumatra would be
a "cushion" for the southern coast of Thailand. The experts also had bad
information; they thought the tremor was 8.1. A similar earthquake occurred in
the same area in 2002 with no flooding at all.
<snip>
We finally decided not to do anything because the tourist season was in full
swing. The hotels were 100% booked full. What if we issued a warning, which
would have led to an evacuation, and nothing had happened. What would be the
outcome? The tourist industry would be immediately hurt. Our department would
not be able to endure a lawsuit...<snip>
Source: Expressen (Swedish online newspaper)
http://www.expressen.se/expressen/jsp/polopoly.jsp?a=223277,
Date: Dec. 28, 2004 Translated by: Cliss
Click. Juan Cole:
Bin Laden "shoots
himself in the foot".
Click. Ex-official tells of homeland security failures.
Click. Nashua
Advocate: President Bush to be subpoenaed; Blackwell tries to avoid sworn
testimony; Over a dozen members of Congress to challenge election.
Click. Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman:
Ohio GOP election officials ducking subpoenas as Kerry enters stolen vote fray.
Click.
Bill Berkowitz: Running amuck as head of the Office of Special Counsel, Scott
Bloch is charged with assembling his own "palace guard".
Click.
Russian biochip marks revolutionary breakthrough in medical diagnostics.
Click. How Robert Spitzer and the DSM redefined mental illness.
Click. Midwestern towns are offering free land to newcomers.
Click. Why there's no escaping the blog.
Click. Blog from Southeast
Asia for Tsunami information and aid.
Herri Met de Bles. St. John on Patmos. c. 1535-50.
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December 27, 2004
Click. U.S.
Mortuary Affairs Unit catalogues the dead just yards from Marines on Fallujah battlefields
Click. Bob Herbert: "Among the ideas cited by Defense Department officials is the idea of 'fighting for intelligence,' or
commencing combat operations chiefly to obtain intelligence."
Click. Pat Buchanan: "Staying the course" won't do.
Click. Helen Thomas: Who will take responsibility for torture?
Click. Secret "rendition" via CIA's secret jet exposed.
Click.
Dr. Thomas P. M. Barnett and Dr. Henry H. Gaffney Jr.: Top 100 rules of the new American way of war.
Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet, Young Women from the Village, 1852
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Click. Nashua
Advocate on vote fraud: Ten earth-shaking headlines.
Click. Keith Olbermann
on Kerry and the Ohio election fraud.
Click.
We know what Gov. Schwarzenegger talks about -- but not with whom.
Click. "It's almost like you've got be a lawyer now to develop software."
Click.
Rumsfeld says 9/11 plane shot down in Pennsylvania.
Click.
Leonard Pitts: Most believe what they want to believe.
Click. Van Gogh at Etten (Flash).
December 26, 2004
A harrowing drive down deadly route. Convoy gets dreaded mission on holiday
Juan Cole reports on Iraq
London
Times: Army moles aided suicide bomber
AP Interview: Top Iraqi General Says Mosul Suicide Bomber Was Not National
Guard; New Video Shows Militants Describing the Attack
As nuclear secrets emerge in Khan inquiry, more are suspected
CIA removing documents from National Archives
MI6 to be overhauled after Iraq fiasco +
Egypt trains MI6 agents to combat Islamic terrorists
George Caleb Bingham, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845
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Revealed: UK's secret terrorism agency for Armageddon
"Dad's
Army" runs rings around CIA stealth satellites
Castro announces crude oil discovery
Governors Unite in Fight Against Medicaid Cuts
William O'Rourke:
Bush's second term is a great gift to the fat cats
Elaine Cassel:
Merry Bleepin' Christmas. Articles I didn't write
Gary Leupp: Rumsfeld, His Critics and the Draft
Click.
Nashua Advocate: A smoking gun? Republican operatives in Florida made sudden
decision to avoid poll challenges; Were they instructed to hold off?
Click.
Madsen: Dominionist Religious Cult Behind Nationwide Election Fraud.
Loophole boosts biotech profits
Oakland: Helping men fight for work one day at a time
Low disability payments to America's war veterans go back 70 years
A bipolar diagnosis delayed, a childhood lost. Illness may explain suicide risk in kids on antidepressants
College curricula link computer game design, humanities. Future game wizards will know Macbeth as well as Quake
The "Freight Train Riders of America" -- Murder on the Rails
December 25, 2004
Army
Doctor describes mass chaos at Mosul Hospital
Mosul attack "an inside job"
Juan Cole reports on Iraq
Soldiers eat Christmas dinner in full body armor
Pakistan lays down the agenda for the US
If Terrorists Are Planning, They Ain't Talking
Kerry preparing grounds to un-concede
Bush said to be seriously ill
Catherine Watson: Calling the dead
Jonea Rogers wants to see her daughter while Marin D.A. Paula Kamena prosecutes her for kidnap
Los Angeles Police Department is experimenting with facial recognition software
Questions about Sacramento jail inmate's death by Taser gun
Stem-cell panel will begin work in Los Angeles
California Democrats Weigh Propositions to to Bypass Governor
Huygens probe unleashed on Titan
Geza Vermes: When you strip away all the pious fiction, what
is left of the real Jesus?
Followers of Zoroaster share faith of 3 wise men at national convention in San Jose
Whiskers on wheels. Cat-filled bus prowls town
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Joseph with Infant Christ. 1665-1666
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December 24, 2004
Click. US may strike at Ba'athists in Syria.
Click.
Washington Post: War Crimes.
Kharazi in a sudden visit to Damascus, Beirut and Ankara. Civil war in Iraq
discussed
Click. The Black Commentator:
No holiday for vote thieves.
Click. Nashua
staff: As the year ends, a retrospective on what we've learned so far about
if/how an election was stolen, and how it was/not reported.
Click. Keith Olbermann:
Challenges and the challenged.
Jackson says Kerry conceded too soon
Hillary is running
Georges de La Tour, L'Adoration des Bergers
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Drug alerts hinder studies
Jim Macgregor: Neo-fascism in America
Click. Giles Fraser:
Empires prefer a baby and the cross to the adult Jesus.
December 23, 2004
Click.
Today Kerry enters the Ohio recount fray.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Christmas Eve of destruction.
Click. Daniel Sneider: Bush buys Potemkin oil auction.
Click. David
Corn: Six Bush scandals to come.
Click. Steve Bell cartoon: Christmas n Iraq.
Click. Scientist says 1,300-foot-long asteroid could hit Earth in
2029.
Click.
Jan Sturmann:
The prophets and preachers of old still stalk the streets of San Francisco.
Click.
The Amazons fought in Britain.
Victor Vasnetsov. Three Tsarevnas of the Underground Kingdom
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December 22, 2004
Scapegoating Rumsfeld: Patrick J. Buchanan
Laurence M. Vance: Gott Mit Uns
Click. Adam Baum: I once thought working for
the Transportation Security Administration was serious business. I didn't have a clue.
Peter Schrag: What the feds owe California - and we won't get
David Lazarus: New way to make you pay
Silicon Valley's Voodoo Priestess is slammed for bankruptcy fraud
Lucy Kosimar: Take The Money And Run Offshore
Mack White on the marketing of dictatorship
John Singleton Copley, The Red Cross Knight
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Media won't release exit poll information
First Andes civilization explored
December 21, 2004
GARY
WEBB'S MEMORIAL
SERVICE.
The questions it raised,
The questions it answered
Click. by
Virginia McCullough
(Note: The picture used as a banner for the Gary Webb
article is Chapel Perilous by Anonymous.)
Attack on US troops is worst yet +
Carnage
in the canteen +
Attack on US Base Kills 13 GIs, 9 Others
White House Threatens Sanctions on Syria
Hussein's Lawyer
Aims for Bush
The end of retirement
Drug Imports Can Be Safe or Cheap, Not Both, Government Report Says
The delusional is no longer marginal
Stardom: A Royal PAIN
Laci's image
belied peril, a syndrome all too typical
Solitary whale wanders seas, calling, calling, to no avail
December 20, 2004
Click. Mystery bidder enters Russian oil giant's fray.
More from Pravda +
More from Financial Times +
Asia Times
Click. Stem cells use inflammatory signals to find injured tissue.
Click. Justice Department lawyer laid groundwork for the Iraq invasion long before it was discussed publicly by the White House.
Click.
Pepe Escobar: Syrian evildoers, here we come.
Click.
EUCOM tests the softer preemptive methods of 'effects-based warfare'
Click. James Heddle: Vote fraud: Only chumps keep on playing in a rigged game.
Click. The Air Force version of Enron.
Click. How about not curing us, some autistics are pleading.
Click. GuruNet or Google?
Click. John
Lennon and Yoko Ono, New York in the '70s.
December 18, 2004
Click. Gary Webb's Last Story: The Killing Game
by Ellen Komp
American forces lose control of Mosul
27 million in US to see tax bill rise
Cannonfire on vote fraud
Victor Vasnetsov.
News from the Front
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Click. Lynn Woolsey: Supporting our troops? The defense secretary we have.
Firms block gays’ benefits, cite US law
Judge rules out lost Washington votes
Contra Costa County: The verdict for Helzer is 5 death sentences. Defense
argument of mental illness rejected by jury
Governor Schwarzenegger sets sights on voting act funds and considers taking power from Shelley
ACLU data collection methods lead to charges of hypocrisy. Some members of board say group's values are betrayed
Click. J. Russell Tyldesley:
The real goal of "tort reform".
Click. Helen Thomas:
Insurgents hate our policies, not our freedoms.
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GARY WEBB
1955 - 2004 RIP
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Virginia McCullough
Proposition 71 financier debuts as chairman of stem cell panel. A 29-member board
is sworn in; a biotech executive is the
vice chair +
Profiles of the patient advocates
Chile's arrest of
Pinochet and the "Condor" killers in the US
Unlucky in love, a gorilla returns home to San Francisco and high hopes he'll bond with
the zoo's females
December 17, 2004
Click. David Lazarus:
Where is that darn uranium?
Click. Paul Krugman: Buying into failure.
Click.
Mike Nartker:
December 16, 2004
Good ol' boy security
Bush Says Social Security Change Shows Effort to Manage Budget Deficits
Purported Bin Laden Tape Condemns Saudi Rulers, Praises Attack in Jeddah
Click. Sidney Blumenthal: Bush's slash and smear campaign is trying to
bring all disparate elements under US control.
Tennessee Reporter in Rumsfeld Flap Files Embed Report from Iraq
Pepe Escobar: Evildoers, here we come.
Why the general begs to differ
Juan Cole reports on Iraq
Privacy is option in new directory for cell phones
California puts Megan's Law list online
Ian Kramskoy, Bee-Keeper
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Click. Fitrakis, Rosenfeld & Wasserman: American democracy hangs by a thread in Ohio.
Scott Peterson Jury Drama: Jurors discuss deliberations
U.K.'s Highest Court Rules Against Holding Terror Suspects Without Trial
Click. Gerald Baker: Imagine my delight when I received a personal Christmas Round Robin from Laura Bush.
Ellen Goodman: Must
gay rights wait for our "comfort"?
(FLASH) Mark Fiore: Rummy's Crummy Tunes
December 15, 2004
Click.
The U.S. failed to control Iraq oil.
Click. Kaveh L. Afrasiabi: How Iran will fight back.
Click. Reuel Marc Gerecht: Will Iran win the Iraq war?
Click. Robert Kuttner: Bush will overreach at his peril.
Click. Pat
Buchanan: The Neocons haven't won yet.
Click. William Hughes: George W. Bush's America: A national nightmare?
Click. William Rivers Pitt: Proof of Ohio election fraud exposed.
Click. Ohio
recount: Ballot after ballot examined in hushed room as campaigns watch.
Click. Cannonfire on vote fraud.
Click. China's controversial "miracle" doctor.
Click. Faith-based groups get Food Stamp grants.
Click. Jerry Fallwell launches 4-year "Operation Christian
Vote" to mobilize 10 million new evangelical voters for the 2006 and 2008 general elections.
December 14, 2004
Click.
U.S. goes back to source of nuclear proliferation, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, in
order to prove Iran has nukes.
Click. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Florida death row inmate should not
automatically get a new trial because his lawyer conceded the man's guilt
without his consent.
Click. The government's chief of AIDS research rewrote a safety report
on a U.S.-funded drug study to change its conclusions and delete negative
information. Later, he ordered the research resumed over the objections of his
staff, documents show.
Click.
Rutgers claims a drug kills HIV.
More
Click. Thomas Oliphant: What they don't tell you on Social Security
reform.
Click.
The new world's A to Z, courtesy of Google.
Click. Cannonfire on
vote fraud.
Click. News:
Election 2004: The Advocate Attempts To Keep Up; Currently Too Many Election
Fraud Stories to Track -- None Being Covered By Mainstream Media
Click.
Paul Krassner: You never forget your first death threat.
Click.
The Scott Peterson case: An American tragedy.
Click. T-Rays.
Click. Dig at Petaluma's Old Adobe offers new view of the past.
Click. Hitler's ghost. Can a Nazi retreat be reinvented?
December 13, 2004
Click. Six reservists, including two veteran officers who had received Bronze Stars, were court-martialed for what
soldiers have been doing as long as there have been wars--scrounging to get what
their outfit needed to do its job in Iraq.
Feith: Can't Rule Out US Action Against Iran
Hospital patents DNA probes
Cannonfire on vote fraud
Smoking gun
of election fraud is in Ken Blackwell's hand
Text of Kerry's
letter on the recount in Ohio
ElBaradei in Washington's crosshairs
Rumsfeld to scrap German visit if there is a prosecution against him
Click.
Replacing the torture-tolerance policy with...nothing in particular
December 11, 2004
Fallujah: The homecoming and the homeless
Click. Joseph L. Galloway: Truth be told, lies are part of Pentagon strategy.
Click. Sam
Parry: Election 2004's myths and mysteries.
Marjie Lundstrom: San Diego woman learns about Mexican drug law the hard way
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, The Briar Rose - The Prince Enters the Briar Wood
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Click. For the first time, federal anti-terror officials are handing out homeland security grants for
nonprofit organizations, including places of worship.
Click. FDA warning sent to Chiron. Regulators want answers on failures at Liverpool plant
Sharp words against Governor Schwarzenegger
Federal judge stops disabled man from continuing to file lawsuits
Feeling "blue". This ought to cheer you up!
Click. Several women of Afghan origin took the streets in Islamabad on Friday to demand
that notorious warlords
and fundamentalists in their country be kept out of the new cabinet in Kabul.
Click.
Norway's Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik has downplayed the political power
of a secretive Christian
group he's affiliated with in the US. That may indicate
he's not aware of the group's history and the role it's played in world affairs,
or that he doesn't want to acknowledge it.
Teens are often hate recruits (Ventura Star free registration)
Mack White comments on
the Ohio nightclub shooter and other shooters as MK-ULTRA agents
At Root of Ukraine's Revolution, the Disciplined Crowd
Nuts,' 'The Bulge' and 'Silent Night' - Old Soldier Recalls an Epic Battle
NIAID-Sponsored Clinical Trial Aims To Boost Flu Vaccine Supply
Scientists Align Billion-year-old Protein With Embryonic Heart Defects
December 17, 2004
Click. David Lazarus:
Where is that darn uranium?
Click. Paul Krugman: Buying into failure.
Click.
Mike Nartker:
December 16, 2004
Good ol' boy security
Bush Says Social Security Change Shows Effort to Manage Budget Deficits
Purported Bin Laden Tape Condemns Saudi Rulers, Praises Attack in Jeddah
Click. Sidney Blumenthal: Bush's slash and smear campaign is trying to
bring all disparate elements under US control.
Tennessee Reporter in Rumsfeld Flap Files Embed Report from Iraq
Pepe Escobar: Evildoers, here we come.
Why the general begs to differ
Juan Cole reports on Iraq
Privacy is option in new directory for cell phones
California puts Megan's Law list online
Ian Kramskoy, Bee-Keeper
Enlarge
Click. Fitrakis, Rosenfeld & Wasserman: American democracy hangs by a thread in Ohio.
Scott Peterson Jury Drama: Jurors discuss deliberations
U.K.'s Highest Court Rules Against Holding Terror Suspects Without Trial
Click. Gerald Baker: Imagine my delight when I received a personal Christmas Round Robin from Laura Bush.
Ellen Goodman: Must
gay rights wait for our "comfort"?
(FLASH) Mark Fiore: Rummy's Crummy Tunes
December 15, 2004
Click.
The U.S. failed to control Iraq oil.
Click. Kaveh L. Afrasiabi: How Iran will fight back.
Click. Reuel Marc Gerecht: Will Iran win the Iraq war?
Click. Robert Kuttner: Bush will overreach at his peril.
Click. Pat
Buchanan: The Neocons haven't won yet.
Click. William Hughes: George W. Bush's America: A national nightmare?
Click. William Rivers Pitt: Proof of Ohio election fraud exposed.
Click. Ohio
recount: Ballot after ballot examined in hushed room as campaigns watch.
Click. Cannonfire on vote fraud.
Click. China's controversial "miracle" doctor.
Click. Faith-based groups get Food Stamp grants.
Click. Jerry Fallwell launches 4-year "Operation Christian
Vote" to mobilize 10 million new evangelical voters for the 2006 and 2008 general elections.
December 14, 2004
Click.
U.S. goes back to source of nuclear proliferation, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, in
order to prove Iran has nukes.
Click. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Florida death row inmate should not
automatically get a new trial because his lawyer conceded the man's guilt
without his consent.
Click. The government's chief of AIDS research rewrote a safety report
on a U.S.-funded drug study to change its conclusions and delete negative
information. Later, he ordered the research resumed over the objections of his
staff, documents show.
Click.
Rutgers claims a drug kills HIV.
More
Click. Thomas Oliphant: What they don't tell you on Social Security
reform.
Click.
The new world's A to Z, courtesy of Google.
Click. Cannonfire on
vote fraud.
Click. News:
Election 2004: The Advocate Attempts To Keep Up; Currently Too Many Election
Fraud Stories to Track -- None Being Covered By Mainstream Media
Click.
Paul Krassner: You never forget your first death threat.
Click.
The Scott Peterson case: An American tragedy.
Click. T-Rays.
Click. Dig at Petaluma's Old Adobe offers new view of the past.
Click. Hitler's ghost. Can a Nazi retreat be reinvented?
December 13, 2004
Click. Six reservists, including two veteran officers who had received Bronze Stars, were court-martialed for what
soldiers have been doing as long as there have been wars--scrounging to get what
their outfit needed to do its job in Iraq.
Feith: Can't Rule Out US Action Against Iran
Hospital patents DNA probes
Cannonfire on vote fraud
Smoking gun
of election fraud is in Ken Blackwell's hand
Text of Kerry's
letter on the recount in Ohio
ElBaradei in Washington's crosshairs
Rumsfeld to scrap German visit if there is a prosecution against him
Click.
Replacing the torture-tolerance policy with...nothing in particular
December 11, 2004
Fallujah: The homecoming and the homeless
Click. Joseph L. Galloway: Truth be told, lies are part of Pentagon strategy.
Click. Sam
Parry: Election 2004's myths and mysteries.
Marjie Lundstrom: San Diego woman learns about Mexican drug law the hard way
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, The Briar Rose - The Prince Enters the Briar Wood
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Click. For the first time, federal anti-terror officials are handing out homeland security grants for
nonprofit organizations, including places of worship.
Click. FDA warning sent to Chiron. Regulators want answers on failures at Liverpool plant
Sharp words against Governor Schwarzenegger
Federal judge stops disabled man from continuing to file lawsuits
Feeling "blue". This ought to cheer you up!
Click. Several women of Afghan origin took the streets in Islamabad on Friday to demand
that notorious warlords
and fundamentalists in their country be kept out of the new cabinet in Kabul.
Click.
Norway's Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik has downplayed the political power
of a secretive Christian
group he's affiliated with in the US. That may indicate
he's not aware of the group's history and the role it's played in world affairs,
or that he doesn't want to acknowledge it.
Teens are often hate recruits (Ventura Star free registration)
Mack White comments on
the Ohio nightclub shooter and other shooters as MK-ULTRA agents
At Root of Ukraine's Revolution, the Disciplined Crowd
Nuts,' 'The Bulge' and 'Silent Night' - Old Soldier Recalls an Epic Battle
NIAID-Sponsored Clinical Trial Aims To Boost Flu Vaccine Supply
Scientists Align Billion-year-old Protein With Embryonic Heart Defects
December 10, 2004
Click. The intelligence bill includes expanded counterterrorism powers: A
presumption against bail, and it allows the FBI to obtain secret surveillance warrants against ''lone wolf" extremists not known to be tied to a specific terrorist group.
Click. Paul Krugman: Borrow, speculate and hope.
Russia prepared to bomb terrorists in foreign states
James Bovard: Bush's posse roundup
Click. County coroners throughout California have among them 150 or 160 unidentified children who died in their jurisdictions, and it is a number that is very hard to reduce.
Click. San Mateo County's lead attorney Tom Casey requests that Judge
Marta Diaz, Presiding Judge, open all juvenile court proceedings to the public.
Click. How a vengeful ex-lover set the FBI on Don Perata.
Click.
Who's who in the FBI investigation.
Click.
Guess which skill is behind Perata's Senate leadership post?
Click. Dock McNeely, a convicted child molester, was released Thursday
from the Placer County jail after a federal judge in Sacramento ruled McNeely
didn't get the speedy trial he deserved. It was the second time McNeely was
ordered released from jail because authorities didn't move quickly enough on
molestation allegations against him.
Google Suggest
Months After the Start of Gay Marriage, the Divorces Begin
December 9, 2004
David Hackworth: Uncle Sam Wants Your Kids
Click. Maureen Dowd: Lost in a masquerade.
Mystery Spy Program Draws Heat
U.S. tied over nuclear kingpin
Benjamin: Homeless Vets
Cannonfire on vote fraud
Senator Byrd: Politics
Surround Intelligence Reform
Click. US plans permanent incarceration facility at Guantánamo--How long until US suspects are sent there?
Click. Army officials barred Denver Post reporters from Fort Carson because the newspaper published an
article (Click.)
about soldiers unhappy with their health care.
Click.
President Bush wants 'pro-homosexual' drama banned. Gary Taylor meets the politician in charge of making it happen.
Halliburton Work in Iraq Tops More Than $10 Billion
Texas man executed on disproved forensics
Singapore: A
Candy Store for Scientists
December 8, 2004
Nat Hentoff: Torture and death: Alberto Gonzales' record as assistant chief executioner under
Bush in Texas
U.S. buys flu shots not approved here
William River Pitt's blog on the
Conyers hearings on vote fraud in Ohio
Click. Mack White: Look at him in his new Dictator Duds (tan military jacket and epaulets!) addressing
the troops in Camp Pendleton. Scary, ain't it?
Bank fuses faith and finance
Honeywell's secret five-year globalization plan exposed
Women's
war. How systematic rape has become a weapon of modern conflict
Click. Dignidad Colony in Chile once hosted torture and pedophilia now hosts golf and picnics.
She truly deserved to win the lottery
December 7, 2004
Two CIA reports offer warnings on Iraq's path
Thomas Powers: Secret
intelligence and the war on terror
McCain slams Iraq policy, won't endorse Rumsfeld's reappointment
Putin's push for a strategic triangle
Dutch to Prosecute Man for Allegedly Supplying Saddam Hussein With Lethal Chemicals
Click. Paul Krugman: Inventing a Social Security crisis.
Boyd Becomes the Leading Democrat to Endorse Bush Plan for Social Security
Mary Cassatt: The Boating Party
Enlarge
Cannonfire on election fraud
Site bars Black Box voting head Bev Harris
Time for recount proves elusive, even illusory
Clinton Curtis affidavit in support of finding vote fraud
John T. Flynn: The final secret of Pearl Harbor
Blue Cross targets young invincibles
White Muslim
Several Thousand Soldiers, Museum Tanks Re-Enact Crucial World War II Battle Outside Moscow
December 6, 2004
Deal reached in intelligence reform
Click. Army spun tale around ill-fated mission of Pat Tillman.
Did the Pentagon Lie In Reports on Death of Pat Tillman?
Click.
Israel's new road plans condemned as "apartheid".
Click. Wayne Madsen: Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation paid for "vote switching" software.
Click.
Woody Allen: Working for the Mouse. Inside the Disney trial.
Click.
Joanne Acocella: What were the Crusades really about?
Click. Prince Neil Bush strikes again!
Vincent Van Gogh, The Olive Orchard
Enlarge & commentary
Click.
All the Binladen's living in the United States were granted
Saudi diplomatic passports in 1996.
Click. Cabeza de
Vaca, from Conquistador to spiritualist.
December 5, 2004
Returning Fallujans will face clampdown
In the kill zone. The unnecessary death of Pat Tillman
Juan Cole reports on Iraq war
Front man for a police state. Bernard Kerik to head US Homeland Security Department
Click.
Chris Floyd: 'Client state: Voluntary servitude in Bush's America'
Cannonfire update on vote fraud
Click. Jason Vest: Politicized espionage. Insiders fear that changeovers at the CIA will weaken the agency
Click.
Jack Kelly: Spies should spy. Fighters should fight.
Alexander Ivanov.
The Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene
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Canada to investigate how security uniforms and badges disappeared from airports across the country
Blue-State Pension Funds Act to Balance GOP Control in Washington
Stepfather of Woman Who Killed Baby by Severing Her Arms Criticizes Pastor's Influence
The Truman Capote Show
French wine elite furious at surprise cinema hit
Honey 'could help fight cancer'
Native plants get some helping hands
Meika Loe: The lure of sex drugs for women
December 4, 2004
Click. Fallujah residents to be "Americanized".
Ed Asner &
Burt Hall: The 9/11 catastrophe -- a dereliction of duty by our Commander-in-Chief
Naomi
Klein: Eliminating
those who dare to count the dead
Juan Cole reports on Iraq
Politicize the
CIA? You've Got to be Kidding
It was a
long way to the top for Nevada's dominant politician Harry Reid
Mission to Mandate Teaching of Constitution Inserted Into Bill
Naval Post Graduate School team builds plan for expeditionary forces
Pinochet to stand trial over 1974 murder
Judge: Commander of U.S. Prisons in Iraq Must Testify About Abu Ghraib
Germany Offers Unemployed Workers Jobs at $1.99 per hour
Future of student films
Cornelis de Man, The Chess Players
Click.
Colombia Prepares to Extradite Most Notorious Drug Kingpin Ever to Face U.S. Justice
Chinese PC maker looks to buy IBM's PC business
What lies
beneath Rancho Murietta?
Phoenician legacy
December 3, 2004
Click. Ellis Henican:
Kerik nomination is a ticking time bomb.
Click. From Bush aide, a warning that Social Security benefits will be
reduced
Click.
An attempt by Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, to add language to the omnibus spending bill in Congress to require parental consent for any mental-health screening
done to children with federal money has failed.
Army Wages War on Modern Menaces
Bush all talk in terror war
U.S. OKs Evidence Gained Through Torture
Molly Ivins: Is this American?
The diary of Josef Mengele, Angel of Death shows no regrets
Utagawa Kunisada,
Snow, 1831 Japanese, (1786-1864)
Enlarge
FDA to Explain Its Treatment of Whistleblower
Click.
Influence peddling in California is as easy as dialing the private number that has
been used by legislators, aides to the governor, Capitol employees and their
families to reserve luxury box seats at Arco Arena — courtesy of BP, one of the
world's largest oil companies.
What Do You
Say to an Extraterrestrial?
December 2, 2004
Click.
Interview: Unembedded journalist Dahr Jamail on what is really going on in Iraq.
Click.
An eyewitness account of how the 2004 election was stolen.
Cannonfire on election fraud
Wayne Madsen: Votergate, more details emerge
Whistleblower crackdown spreads
Senator
Dayton's requests to go to Iraq are denied
Kenneth Starr says he shouldn't have been involved in Lewinsky case
Edmund Henry Osthous, On Point
Enlarge
Will Rumsfeld be tried?
Alpo in the golden years
Click. Court removes foster teen from woman's home because she uses medical marijuana.
Kenneth Starr says he shouldn't have been involved in Lewinsky case
Macabre! Iraq
adopts color coded terror alert system!
Even Minimal, Undetected Hearing Loss Hurts Academic Performance
Click.
Why a Bay Area microbiologist turned to the New Age art of building labyrinths.
Anniversary of Altamont Rock Fest
December 1, 2004
Confidential Report Alerted Some U.S. Commanders in Iraq to
Prison Abuse in December 2003
Rumsfeld sued for war crimes over Abu Ghraib
Click. Battle over use of deceit: Information tactics debated in Pentagon
Juan Cole reports on Iraq
Molly
Ivins: How things work in Texas
Click. Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis: Will the Democrats stand and
fight in Ohio?
Bush approves $10 million to rescue California missions. Foes say they will sue
to stop taxpayer support for religion
Bush: California Pacific salmon
and steelhead habitats face cuts of up to 80%
California is failing to audit Indian tribes' gambling casinos
Raphael, Knight's Dream
Janet Reno reminds Oakland, California to laugh a little
Stardom: BARROSO'S BOY BOOTED: New Elections In Portugal
Breast Exams at the Airport: Do the New Security Measures Go Too Far?
A Kennedy Plans a Tag Sale, So Sotheby's Expects a Crowd
China Hurries to Animate Its Film Industry
China is blocking the Google news site
CBS and NBC won't air United Church of Christ ad that says it welcomes all
people regardless of ability, age, race, economic circumstance or sexual orientation
November 30, 2004
Bush says Iran must go beyond nuclear suspension
Pepe
Escobar: The real fury of Fallujah
Stephen Kimber: Bush in a cocoon insides a bubble in Canada
From Repairing TVs to Protecting the Prez
John
Cassidy: What is the administration going to do about the dollar?
Thom Hartmann: How to take back an election
Keith Olbermann: Ohio GOP says "Recount si, Jesse no"
David
Tokaji: The
2008 Election: Could It Be A Repeat of 2000?
Juan Gonzalez: Ohio tally fit for Ukraine
Bob Brown: Drugging you into submission
Return of the Blacklist
Investigator suggests foreign intelligence involved in Russia school attack
Genetically Modified Dental Treatment to Prevent Cavities for a Lifetime Gets
Approval for Human Testing
Whose Woods Are These? Shooting in North Woods Highlights Contrast Between Hmong,
Local Hunters
Incorrect, nonsensical ruling in San Diego mayor's race
Supersizing the UN
The grinches who steal childhood
Leukemia Patients Survive With Stem Cell Transplant
Click. An
herbal drink that busts flab, sharpens immune systems and heightens energy
without any jittery side effects? Right.
George H. Story: Brittany Mending the Nets
Click.
November 29, 2004
Click.
James Fallows: Is Iran next? Soldiers, spies, and diplomats conduct a
classic Pentagon war game—with sobering results
Click. New Twist in Plame Game: When
Did Novak Column Move on the Wires?
Click.
Shadow of Vietnam falls over Iraq
river raids.
Military recruiters target schools strategically
New al-Qaida tape aired
Bush Opposes Privacy Protection for Passports
Cannonfire update on vote fraud
French vaccine fuels hope in AIDS treatment. Preliminary study shows promise in
suppressing virus
Philip Leslie Hale, The Crimson Rambler
Enlarge
Study: A spray could stop the spread of flu, TB and SARS
Intelligence impasse in Congress is mainly a question of control
The CIA on campus
Click. Humberto Marquez: Saramago Warns of
Danger After Bush Reelection
Click. George McEvoy: Courts first to go in right-wing revolution
Meanwhile:
When Harvard played host to Hitler's right-hand man
Click.
Ninth-grade biology teachers in Dover, Pa., must include "intelligent design" in
their instruction. Observers say it is a sign of what's to come.
Wee Wireless Warriors
Learning by remote, in a remote prairie town
November 28, 2004
Bush's Social Security plan is said to require vast borrowing
Pro-Russia Ukraine regions threaten to split off in wake of disputed vote
Report: FBI finds link Between 9/11, Madrid bombs
Inside Fallujah's war
Juan Cole reports on Iraq
Click.
Not majority rule, but "majority of majority" says GOP in Congress.
Rove unleashed
Cannonfire update on election fraud
Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey in an Oak Forest,
1809-10,
Enlarge
Lockheed and the future of warfare
Newspaper: Nichols Admits Helping Oklahoma City Bomber McVeigh
Flu crisis exposes large gaps in bioterrorism readiness
Paralyzed woman
walks again after stem cell therapy
Diabetes tests offer "cure" hope
University of California Irvine scientist says viruses shape how we look, speak,
think (OCR Free Reg)
Infanticide trials reexamined in Britain
California Youth Authority examines Missouri model
Ellen MacArthur
sets sail on solo round-the-world challenge
Ancient Greek soul searching continues in modern Greek schools
French film "Innocence" takes top honors at Stockholm Film Festival
Mike Nichols open to big questions with his new film "Closer"
New
York's Long Island blossoms as wine producer
What really happened with
Cleopatra and the asp
Gaye LeBaron: A drive through Bennett Valley (Santa Rosa, CA) brings out the "ghosts"
Chinese inventor sees money in flying saucers
New book "Gilead": Acts of Devotion
"Obsessive Genius"
Marie Curie: Too hot to handle
Franciscans of Monterey, California, are moving
from "God's country" +
Mission's centuries-old violin remains missing
Finnish paganism
November 27, 2004
U.S. Sends in Secret Weapon:
Saddam's Old Commandos
Marines get big bucks to re-enlist
Juan Cole reports on Iraq
U.S. campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev
Colombian Rebels Planned to Kill President Bush
Porter Goss'
WIA – Worthless Intelligence Agency
From left, religious figures make a push
Blue-state pension funds act to balance GOP control in Washington
The Alchemists,
Napoletano, Filippo also known as Filippo d'Angeli Enlarge
The Race to Steal Military Bases Heats Up
Brothel for homosexual pedophiles organized in Moscow
FBI turns focus to BART-Perata link
Cannonfire update on vote fraud
Click. Blackwell sued over Cuyahoga vote tally. Suit seeks to validate provisional ballots
John
Muir's grandson takes the disabled to ride on horse drawn carriages
Fall-run Chinook salmon are returning to the Napa River
Scientists give human organs to a lamb
Public Theater's
New Hero, Oskar Eustis
Stardom: DEPRESSION and MUSIC
The Southern
Ms.
Click.
Women’s rights advocate Ayaan Hirsi Ali has gone into
hiding after a death threat against her was pinned to
the body of murdered filmmaker Theo van Gogh.
Charles C. Haynes explains Christian right's dilemma
Click. Five years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the elderly
and disabled should be able to live in the least restrictive settings,
California has yet to act, leaving them in nursing homes, federal officials say.
Two communities in the American Civil War
Click. A tiny silver locket discovered in a Westonzoyland field may have fallen from the neck of a soldier fighting for the
King at the Battle of Sedgemoor more than 300 years ago.
November 26, 2004
Click. Gwen Kinkead:
Amid C.I.A. Shake-Up, Questions About F.B.I.
Naomi Klein: Smoking while Iraq burns
Click. The When and How of Plame Leak Being Probed.
Click. Chris Floyd: Bush worm turning.
Ukraine presidential rivals meet in presence of EU, Russia mediators
Resource Hungry China Makes Big Push Into Africa
Click. Murderers of gay college student Matthew Shepard now say
they were motivated not by homophobia, but the prospect of robbery to fuel a methamphetamine binge.
"This
(passport with embedded computer chip) is like putting an invisible bull's-eye
on Americans that can be seen only by the terrorists."
Gifted
14-year-old sues California for special education, i.e. college
Free
credit reports start Dec. 1 for millions of people living in western U.S.
Absinthe re-emerges
Caspar David Friedrich, On Board a Sailing Ship
Click.
Click.
Martha Stewart's prison secrets — right down to the spices she
allegedly sneaks into her bra — have been revealed by her cellmates.
Tomb may shed light on 10 Biblical plagues of Egypt
Ancient bison done in by climate, not hunters. Conclusion of study already drawing fire
A tour
of the château where Leonardo once lived
November 25, 2004
Click. California Indian tribes choose to focus on modern blessings rather than past tribulations.
Thanksgiving for the Indian who saved the Pilgrims
Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election
Juan Cole on Fallujah fall-out
One gulp, and Bush was gone
Attempt
to stop mandatory mental health screening fails
Report: Terror Mastermind Al-Zarqawi Used Swiss Cell Phone, Which Allowed
Investigators to Track Him Before the Iraq War
Yemen Releases More Than 100 Al-Qaida Members Who Recanted, Including USS Cole
Bombing Suspects Later Cleared
Ukraine on brink of civil war
+
Ukraine: What's at Stake
Guardsmen Say They're Facing Iraq Ill-Trained
Black Watch hits 'millionaires' row'
Report: Two More Top CIA Officials Resign
Suspect was sharpshooter in the Guard
Maureen Dowd: Hiding breast bombs
Thomas Waterman Wood, In the Jelly Jar
Enlarge
Westerners migrating to India for jobs
Click. Michelangelo Signorile: Out and about to get ugly.
Stardom: You're NOT Putting Your GRUBBY HANDS On My BOOBS!!!
Click. Robert Parry: US vs Ukraine elections: Big media's democracy double standards.
Vietnam veteran, 53, called up for duty in Iraq
Cannonfire: Full court press on vote fraud
Keith Olbermann reports
Portugal child sex trial under way
Prosecutors Ask Appeals Court to Uphold Martha Stewart Conviction, Say Evidence Overwhelming
Attorney Jason D. Borrevik of Wilson, Sonsini firm gets 4 months jail for sex with minor girl
Witch paints convicted murderer Helzer as caring
Michael Jackson asks for psych test of his accusers
Tracing Che
Guevara's steps in DR Congo 40 years on
The ancients: now available in color
Gel may destroy cervical cancer
Smart phone
predicts owner's behavior
Documents detail prison cover-up at Salinas Valley State Prison
Point Reyes National Seashore: Emmy the seal goes home for the holidays
November 24, 2004
Click.
Leuren Moret: University of California Regents lose control of nuclear weapons program.
Five admirals, Carlyle Group and Rand take over.
UKRAINE ELECTION RIGGING:
Powell Rejects Ukraine Election, Calls for Action +
Ukraine Liberal Calls for Strike, Civil War Warning + The OTPOR factor in the Ukraine?
+ Was Yushchenko poisoned?
Click. +
Putin Due in Netherlands for EU Summit as Ukrainian Election Strains Ties
Iran got advanced arms plans, CIA says. Report suggests Pakistani scientist gave
more nuclear aid than previously thought
Bush wants to bolster CIA with 50% increase in spies and analysts but doesn't offer specifics
Auditor to Army: Dock Halliburton Pay
Philips Wouterman, The White Horse
Enlarge
Bush Gives Spain's King and Queen the Royal Treatment
OPM Readies to Take On Bulk of Security Investigations
Bush Wants Plan for Covert Pentagon Role
Iraq Tries to Escape Middle East Oil Curse
Click. Molly Ivins:
Three ugly weeks: Second Bush term goes from bad to worse.
Whistleblower Earns Kudos, Criticism, Says He Fears FDA Reprisal
New York Women Get Tough with Roller Derby Revival
John Steinbeck and William Shakespeare
Gloria Vanderbilt describes her many romances in new book
Cannonfire fires on....
Stardom:
The Way of the WORLD
Lining up for contraband milk
Wayward seal finds audience, help in Oakland
Alameda Public Defender unhappy with Judge Thomas Reardon
Blue tree and pinwheels bloom in unusual gardens
Stone
puts his stamp of greatness on bold 'Alexander'
Human beings possess God's DNA?!
Engraving on watch may help to solve Jack the Ripper case
Declaration of Independence banned at Cupertino, California school
G. Gordon Liddy: Voice of unreason
How a
young conscript became a Russian saint
All-women trains are only way to defeat Tokyo bottom pinchers
Damn! I simply don’t have time to be in love
Our
leaders want us scared senseless
Can we take this (nuclear)
chance?
Click. Authorities looking at possible Vang connection to 2001 hunter slaying, detective says.
November 23, 2004
Marines, Iraqi Forces Launch Offensive Against Insurgents South of Baghdad
Iraq's Electoral Commission Approves 156 Political Parties to Run in January Elections
Iran, Syria Condemn Iraq Insurgency, Support Election at
20-Nation Meeting
Federal corruption probe
has California Capitol all in a frenzy
Pell Grant Change in Congress Could Affect Eligibility for Many Low-Income Students
Presbyterian Minister
in Marin faces gay marriage 'charges'
San Francisco firefighter appeals dismissal for pot use. Panel will consider
deal for desk worker with seizure problem
Report on elder abuse deaths in California
Harvard pays 2 top money managers $25m
Jan Vermeer, The Geographer
Enlarge
Pelosi delivers funds for projects aplenty, Appropriations for USF, Old Mint included in bill
Putting science to work solving art's whodunits
Harvard pays 2 top money managers $25m
Greek Lawyers Threaten To Sue Over Gay Alexander Film
In NY, Money Can't Buy Love But Gets a Foot in Door
Pain
"causes brain cell loss'"
JFK Doodles Add Interesting Footnote to Presidential Archives, but No Major Revelations
November 22, 2004
Bush Says Iran Must Allow Verification That It Won't Seek Nuclear Weapons
Al-Zarqawi underling emerges as force behind Fallujah insurgency
Lew Rockwell: Read the WSJ, if You Can Stand It
Click. Keith Olbermann: Relax about Ohio, relax
about the guy tailing me.
Click. Why they hate Bush in Chile.
Special report, Day 2: Marin companies lured by Presidio
Stardom: ANNIHILATE This WEEK
Western Coyotes Making Dens in the Eastern U.S.
"Just
call me Nell"
Thomas Cole, Landscape Scene from the Last of the Mohicans
Enlarge
Refuge in the San Francisco Bay. Birds dwell on islands once visited by Indians, pirates
The Lying Game, Revisited: Justin Raimondo
Veteran reporter recalls JFK assassination
The new assassinate JFK the Warren-report-way video game is called
"despicable" +
The video-maker's press release
Click. FROM
THE MAE BRUSSELL ARCHIVE
by Virginia McCullough, Curator -
"The Secrets of the House Select Committee on Assassinations"
Mae Brussell's letter to the House Select Committee on Assassinations - guidelines to investigate the assassinations.
November 21, 20
In Falluja, Young Marines Saw the Savagery of an Urban War
Falluja: Last words of the
living dead
Summit notebook: Security Squabble Leads Chile and United States to Scale Down Black-Tie Dinner
Chiron knew sometime in March that vaccine was failing sterility tests
The Anti-assassin Academy
Vasiliy Polenov. Raising of Jairus' Daughter
Enlarge
Click. Helen Thomas:
Selection of hard-liner Rice sends a bad message.
Click.
Who's Istook and why does he want your tax forms?
Robert Mondavi - his Legacy Lost
Casinos a refuge for elders -- at a cost
Female
Nobel Prize Winner, a Gloom of Her Own
Calif. senator's lopsided win considered victory for liberals
Falwell's School Joins Others in Teaching Law to Their Flocks
Doubts Fly on Terror Report's Reliability
Israel's Holocaust Museum Unveils Victims Data
Click. Cannonfire:
Election theft update.
Click. Joshua Frank:
Democrats commit suicide.
Exhibit sheds light on killer Jack Ruby
Stardom:
Surviving the BROWSER WAR
Special report: 1,500 Lucas film jobs to start heading to Presidio in July
Tech Titan Turf War Goes Far Beyond Online Search
Cervantes -- an unclaimed brilliance. His genius seems lost on Spain 400 years after 'Don Quixote'
Chinese-Cuban Community Struggles to Revive Havana's Chinatown, Dwindling Ancestral Culture
November 20, 2004
Click.
Paris Club to forgive $33 billion of Iraq debt, paving way for IMF aid.
Click.
Red Cross condemns "contempt for humanity" by all parties fighting in Iraq.
Click. A look at the seminal concept of an Islamic ideology fueling extremists.
Click. Terror proves turn up an even more zealous brand of Islamic militancy.
Click. Scientists
debate the blending of human and animal forms (It's already happening).
Click. Indian tribes "fleeced in $66 million lobbying scandal.
Click. GOP may employ "nuclear option" of blocking
filibusters.
Click. The Air Force pitch for Boeing in dirty details.
Click.
Bacteria detected long ago by Chiron.
Ecole de Fountainebleau, Diane chasseresse
Enlarge
Click. Appeals court OKs expansion of quarry in Sunol.
Click. Pill company selling unproven palliatives thrives despite complaints.
Click.
Thomas E. Woods, Jr.: Politically incorrect history.
Click. Karen Kwiatkowski:
Getting smart.
Click.
How Disney made money despite a string of movie flops.
Click.
Legalities hold home of Laci Peterson captive.
Click.
A Penngrove, CA man John Barossi who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old
Kentfield girl last year was sentenced yesterday to life in prison with the
possibility of parole in 21 years.
November 19, 2004
Click. Nuclear disclosures on Iran unverified.
Click. Greenspan says foreign investors may tire of financing current account gap.
Click. The
case for China to pull the peg on the dollar.
Click.
Jan Silber: 2005 flu vaccine may be a long shot.
Click.
Thom Hartmann: "Stinking evidence" of possible election fraud found in Florida.
Click. The Pentagon drafts the Oxford butterfly man.
Delacroix, Étude de deux tigres, dit aussi Jeune tigre jouant avec sa mère
Enlarge
Click.
Nonprofit organizations tangle Gov. Schwarzeneggers' fund-raising machine and
are not required to reveal identities of donors. Who are these groups?
Click.
Click. A coup try against Perata in the California Senate is virtually certain.
Click. Brainy plants.
Click. Aging gays face problems of isolation, loneliness and fears.
Click.
Anthony Lane: Why J. M. Barrie created Peter Pan.
Click.
P.J. Corkery: Friday fishwrap, and Shirley MacLaine.
November 18, 2004
Click. U.S. troops find suspected Al-Zarqawi command center. Fallujah toll put at 51
U.S. troops dead, 425 injured.
Click. Rare blood infection surfaces in injured U.S. soldiers.
Click. Richard Beeston: The rise of terrorism leaves much of world off-limits to Westerners.
Click. Bush tax overhaul would penalize companies for providing health care.
Click.
Read DCI Goss' actual statement to the "workforce" dated 15 November 2004.
Click.
China ready to occupy U.S. vacuum in Latin America.
Click. Judy Silber: FDA knew about vaccine issues.
Raphael, Allegory (The Knight's Dream)
Enlarge
Click. Chiron CEO's testimony before House panel raises new questions
Click. WHO urges more research on vaccines for flu and other illnesses.
Click. The FBI investigates California Senate leader Don Perata (D-Oakland) and some associates. Federal grand jury is
impaneled and subpoenas have been issued. More:
Click. (LAT Reg)
Click. Nurses at Good Samaritan Hospital, L.A., found 16 hidden cameras in the hospital.
Cick. (SJM Reg)
Senator Boxer will confront Rice.
Click.
Federal judge orders an investigation into the state's labor contract with
California's correctional officers, asking whether it gives their union too much control over prison management.
Click. Even though he found that "misconduct plainly occurred," a U.S.
District judge Thelton Henderson refused hold the former Department of
Corrections chief criminally liable for shutting down a perjury probe of three
correctional officers last year.
Click. Auditors investigating the financial mess that hastened the
state takeover of the Oakland schools discovered no evidence of criminal fraud
but found "highly irregular" accounting including a mysterious $38 million entry.
More:
Click.
Click. Sunol resident Pat Stillman vows quarry fight.
Click. A search engine that cares how you feel.
Click. Stardom: On and off it goes.
Click.
Pirate re-enactors sail the local seas.
Click. Raphael, the charmer.
Click. Study shows stem cells can preserve vision.
November 17, 2004
Click. Senates nears OK of $800 billion debt increase as Democrats blame Bush.
Click. U.S. House Republicans change rules to protect DeLay's post if he's indicted.
Click. Justice Scalia: Let voters rule on individuals' rights.
Click. GOP looking to repeal food labeling law.
Click. The arrival of secret law.
Click.
Molly Ivins: Purging for disloyalty makes us sick to our stomachs.
Click. Cannonfire: The cult that runs our country.
Click. White House intervenes on behalf of intelligence bill. Senate's chief negotiators had
accepted a House demand stripping out all congressional oversight of the national intelligence director.
Click. Stardom: A Case of Mistaken XENOPHOBIA.
Click. Monterey County Judge Robert Moody to an adult defendant: JAIL, OR JOIN THE MILITARY! (Lawyer says that in juvenile court, military enlistment
is already an alternative sentence.)
Click.
Johnny Ray Huston: A shake-up at the Castro Theatre brings change -- and perhaps big trouble -- for movie lovers in San Francisco.
Click. Santa Rosa, California kidnap suspect was once an artistic genius.
Click. Google finds its way onto cellphones.
Click.
Sheelah Kolhatkar: Desperate no more, Ex-ABC boss Lyne takes Stewart Omnimedia gig.
Click. Britains' Druids enjoy a mystical Renaissance.
November 16, 2004
Click. New video shows
the murder of humanitarian worker Hassan.
Click. Fallujah
pictures the military and media don't want you to see.
Click. Being Condi means never having to say you're sorry.
Click. Bush to visit Canada on November 30.
Click. Industry executive Francis J. Harvey confirmed by the Senate as Army Secretary.
Click. Ohio to go through statewide vote recount after all.
Click. Dr. Laura: Tell Congress NO money for mental health screening of kids.
Click.
Robert Scheer: The Peter Principle and the Neocon coup.
Click.
Sam Shepard on America's dangerous political farce.
Click.
The neighborhood costs of America's prison boom.
Click.
Marin County District Attorney Paula Freschi Kamena, who broke ground to become
the county's first woman DA but also became the first Marin DA to face a recall
effort, plans to retire on January 4, 2005.
Click. (LAT Reg) Gov. Schwarzenegger on Monday appointed a new
Department of Motor Vehicles director who has advocated taxing motorists for
every mile they drive — by placing tracking devices in their cars.
Click.
Dan Frosch: Drug store cowboys use our medical records to sell us prescription drugs.
Click.
Stephen Pizzo: Double standards on prescription drugs.
Click. Adriel Hampton: Democrats in San Francisco turn to the "vision thing".
Click.
Mono Lake scenic area may face development.
Click.
Mark Twain's observations on Mono Lake.
Click.
Garden Grove man goes on trial in first international sex tourism case.
Click.
Special master to oversee California Youth Authority reforms.
Click.
Stardom: Dylan's LYRICS And the SECRET SERVICE.
Click. The buddy system for losing weight works, even if the buddy has four legs and barks.
Click. Mongolia's reindeer people fight for survival.
November 12, 2004
Click. Pepe Escobar: Collective punishment, regrettable necessity.
Click. Mark LeVine: Four solutions for Fallujah.
Click. Sayed Saleem Shahzad: Resistance blueprint.
Click. For victory in Fallujah, land grab is not enough.
Click. Portrait of Chuck Blahous, Bush's point man for social security reform.
Click. Barbara Ehrenreich: The faith factor.
Click. Keith Olbermann: Recounts and retractions.
Click. Cannonfire on the latest election fraud news.
Click.
Sam Parry: Washington Post's sloppy voting analysis.
Click. Struggling RNAi market just got a lot more interesting.
November 11, 2004
Click.
Pepe Escobar: A thousand Fallujahs.
Click. CIA officer quits to speak freely about problems with
intelligence community.
Click.
Betsy R. Vasquez: Inside the election fraud battle. Think Kerry is not
involved in this fight? Think again.
Click.
How a guy's gizmo spread fear at Federal Reserve Bank.
Click. Goodbye, Archie. We could use you now.
Click.
Joe Callaghan: Believe it or not. Things have been worse.
Click. Cannonfire
on the vote fraud investigation today.
Click. Steve Weissman: Who counts in Ohio?
Click.
Blinded By Science: How `Balanced' Coverage Lets the Scientific Fringe Hijack Reality
Click. Alameda County Board of Education pays $1 million for software that was never used.
Click. Chest pains and ER's revolving door.
November 10, 2004
Click. Juan Cole reports on Iraq battles.
Click. Professor Froomkin: Lest we forget, Gonzales appeared to obstruct justice in the Plame affair.
Click. After making emergency calls to state and federal health
authorities, Alexander Lucas took Cipro antibiotic tablets, donned a mask and
protective biosuit and ventured alone to cleanse his laboratory at Children's
Hospital Oakland, of anthrax that never should have been there.
Click. What does this mean? U.S. fighter jet strafes school in New Jersey.
Click. Cannonfire update on vote fraud.
Click. Civil War Redux.
November 9, 2004
Click. AWOL!
The U.S. casualties figures for the Fallujah battle.
Click. Paul Alexander: Seven military general discuss what has gone wrong in Iraq.
Click.
Pepe Escobar: The real fury of Fallujah.
Click.
Tom Engelhardt: On the eve of the invasion of Fallujah.
Click.
Michael Reynolds: Homegrown terror.
Click.
Wayne Barrett: The November surprises.
Click. Cannonfire: Today's vote fraud links.
Click. SEC "glitch" hampers nation's stockpile of childhood vaccines.
Click.
Secret papers finally tell the truth of Hess's flight.
Click. UK Report:
The US supply of bio materials to Iraq.
Click.
Women with heart attacks wait too long to receive emergency angioplasty.
November 8, 2004
Click. CIA's role within the U.S. is to be greater.
Click. U.S. is unprepared for bio-terror attack.
Click.
Eric Umansky: U.S. military fears nerve gas in Fallujah and why.
Click. Cannonfire on the latest voter fraud news.
Click. Harley Sorensen: Praise God and pass out the cash!
Click.
Siddharth Srivastava: India pulls China into the outsourcing game.
Click. Linda Seebach: The bill establishing a national intelligence director will emerge from a conference committee with
provisions that would make it harder to expose government misconduct.
Click.
Jim Lobe: Neocons have gone wild with their wish list.
Click. Al Gore launches global fund management firm.
Click.
Flush with government cash, the virgin movement goes pro.
Click. Fighting off the flu: Eastern, Western methods offer ways to avoid illness.
Click. Heart pill for Blacks to be first pill sold for a specific race.
November 7, 2004
Click.
Suicide squads await the Americans' attack on Fallujah.
Click. U.S.
commanders give marines pep talk for fight in Fallujah.
Click. Iraq declares state of emergency: Curfews, detention without trial allowed.
Click.
U.S. ready to put weapons in space.
Click. Hezbollah claims to send its first reconnaissance drone into Israel.
Click. Gretchen Reynolds:
The flu hunters.
Click. Statements about Medicare benefit called misleading. Insurance officials balk at Bush team's marketing tactics.
Click. Bush's brother Neil involved in controversial gas deal. The Harbor commission
offered investment firm an exclusive lease.
Click. Cannonfire's vote fraud links today.
Vasily Vereshchagin.
Mortally Wounded
Enlarge
Click. M. J. Akbar: The White Revolution.
Click. Revealed: Secret plan to push "happy pills".
Click. Thomas Oliphant: The gay marriage deception.
Click. Useless questions from a psychiatrist.
Click. Stardom:
Headed towards A DONNA REED World.
Click. Gaye LeBaron: Site of planned Tolay park in Sonoma County is rich in Mission history.
November 6, 2004
Click. U.S. and Iraqi troops mass for assault on Fallujah. U.S. to employ sniper, robots to cut down casualties.
Click. Insurgents launch deadly attacks across central Iraq as U.S. prepares for Fallujah attack.
Click. Marines turn to God ahead of anticipated Fallujah battle.
Click. French troops shoot down three Ivory Coast government aircraft after bomb strike
kills eight French peacekeepers.
Click. UN Security Council to meet on Ivory Coast.
Click. Robert Fisk: The truth is Yasser Arafat died years ago.
Click.
Ben Macintyre: The emotional truth about war.
Click.
Don Henry Ford, Jr.: From the middle of Texas where the center's on the right.
Click. Ron Jacobs:
The arrow on the doorpost.
Click. Michael Mondavi shares his thoughts on the buyout plan.
Click. Dave
Zirin: Out at the ballgame. Pro sports and the gay athlete.
Georges Seurat, The Circus
Enlarge
Click. Musicians seek mystique of Joshua Tree.
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All about Annie Bidwell, the wife of Chico's founder.
Click. Hollywood meets Santa Cruz -- in a bad way.
November 5, 2004
Click. Vote fraud in Ohio.
Click. Thom Hartman: The ultimate felony against Democracy --
privatizing our vote.
Click. Massive fraud in U.S.
voting.
Click. Dan Ackman: Enron conviction. More end zone than milestone.
Click.
Kavrah Afrasiabi: China rocks the geopolitical boat with a $100 billion oil pipeline deal with Iran.
Click. Karen Kwiatkowski:
What are we doing?
Click. Mayor Daly says Republicans "outfoxed" elitist Democrats.
Click.
Jonathan Chait: Those who voted for Bush may be in for a big surprise.
Click. Nerd party needed to replace
"left-wing" Democrats.
Click. Medicare recipients can now have new and expensive treatments and diagnostic tests, but
ONLY IF
they enter into research studies
that evaluate how well they work.
November 4, 2004
Click. Nicholas D. Kristof:
Voting against one's own interests.
Click. Maureen Dowd:
The red zone.
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Christopher Caen: Beware the swarms and protect freedom.
Click. Jonah Birch:
1968 and today.
Click. Steve Pizzo: Should Democrats become values whores?
Click.
Greg Palast: Kerry won. An analysis of uncounted votes suggests a different outcome in Ohio and New Mexico.
Click. The most expensive election in U.S. history. Billionaire v.
billionaire. The top 50 zip codes showing who gave and who got what.
November 3, 2004
Click. White House Wednesday: Debt ceiling must be raised.
Click. Arnaud de Borchgrave: Bin Laden's game plan.
Click. E-voting passes biggest test, but computer scientists remain skeptical.
Click. Ike Awfu:
We better hope Americans made the right choice.
Click. The TV that sent out a cry for help via satellite.
Click. New Method of injection could stretch flu vaccine supply.
Click. Censored by the US, the Iranian judge who won Nobel Peace Prize.
November 2, 2004
Click. Bob Barr:
The over-litigating of elections. Why it's happening, how it may affect 2004's results, and why
federal interference is making things worse.
Click. Disgraced corporate executives laugh their way to the bank.
Click.
Benazir Bhutto's answer to al-Qaeda.
Click.
Holocaust victims file $40 billion class-action lawsuit vs. U.S. government.
Click. The stem cell research gold rush.
November 1, 2004
Click.
Frank Rich: Has U.S. overdosed on Bush's script?
Click. Juan Cole:
What's at stake.
The revolutionary vs. the statesman.
Click. Francis Boyle:
The Nazis had their law professors too.
Click.
Fatal attraction: A new study suggests a relationship between fear of death and political preferences.
Click. Ryan
Lizza: Is the FDA withholding documents about Chiron and Fluviran.
Click. Hope Yen:
Supreme Court to decide if police can be sued for not enforcing restraining orders.
Click. Finally, a bakery for the puppies and the kitty kats.
October 31, 2004
Click. Les Payne: Bush is selling his version of "1984''.
Click. Maureen Dowd:
Will Osama help W.?
Click. Michael Daly: Hey, W, Osama's talkin' to you.
Click.
Knight Ridder report: Did U.S. mistakes let bin Laden escape from Afghanistan 3 years ago?
Click. Niles Latham:
Full tape is an Osama woe show.
Click. Tom Flocco: Hacking the Presidency.
Click. Tony Blair's secret mission to woo Kerry.
Click. The Pentagon gets funds for covert payoffs.
Click. Insurgents in Fallujah claimed to have obtained chemical weapons and threatened to use them in any battle for
control of the rebel stronghold.
Click.
Stardom: I Went As THERESA HEINZ KERRY.
Click. At California casino, a tribe plays by its own rules.
Click.
New revelations on Jonestown tragedy.
Click. Had Chiron's contaminated product made it into patients, disaster would've resulted.
Click. The bacterium in Chiron's Fluviran has a dark history in San Francisco.
Click. The
vaccine crises top bioterror worries.
Click. WHO sets flu vaccine summit meeting to deal with pandemic threat.
October 31, 2004
Click. Les Payne: Bush is selling his version of "1984''.
Click. Maureen Dowd:
Will Osama help W.?
Click. Michael Daly: Hey, W, Osama's talkin' to you.
Click.
Knight Ridder report: Did U.S. mistakes let bin Laden escape from Afghanistan 3 years ago?
Click. Niles Latham:
Full tape is an Osama woe show.
Click. Tom Flocco: Hacking the Presidency.
Click. Tony Blair's secret mission to woo Kerry.
Click. The Pentagon gets funds for covert payoffs.
Click. Insurgents in Fallujah claimed to have obtained chemical weapons and threatened to use them in any battle for
control of the rebel stronghold.
Click.
Stardom: I Went As THERESA HEINZ KERRY.
Click. At California casino, a tribe plays by its own rules.
Click.
New revelations on Jonestown tragedy.
Click. Had Chiron's contaminated product made it into patients, disaster would've resulted.
Click. The bacterium in Chiron's Fluviran has a dark history in San Francisco.
Click. The
vaccine crises top bioterror worries.
Click. WHO sets flu vaccine summit meeting to deal with pandemic threat.
October 30, 2004
Click. Eight marines die in Iraq as Falluja assault looms.
Click.
Bush administration lawyers argue that only the Justice Department, not the voters, may sue to
enforce provisions in the Help America Vote Act.
Click.
Simon Jenkins: "It's security, stupid" has poisoned American politics.
Click. In Pakistan, U.S. policies foster suspicion and hatred.
Click. The U.S. "super soldiers" who used their psychic powers in Abu Ghraib.
Click. Telling police what they want to hear, even if it's false.
Click. Homeland Security agents visit a toy store.
Click.
Bruce Anderson: When the hippies invaded Northern California.
Click. Shariff and O'Toole get their epic act together again.
Click. Degas through a keyhole.
Click. The
witch burnings -- Holocaust without equal.
Click.
Doug Ireland: Was Abe Lincoln gay?
Click. At one with the snails....
October 29, 2004
Click. Hubert G. Locke:
President has to be more than our pal.
Click. Juan Cole:
Pentagon
briefing on missing explosives.
Click. U.S. drug prices 81% higher than in 7 Western nations.
Click. Google buys CIA-backed mapping startup.
Click. Could Hobbit-like creatures still live on Earth?
Click. On Halloween, Scottish town to officially pardon witches executed centuries ago.
October 28, 2004
Click.
Wayne Barrett, Nathan Deuel: An '80s business overture that fits W's lifetime pattern of CIA dealings.
W's Courting of Saddam.
Click. Ed Naha: Bush's medieval times.
Click. Will Bunch: 9/11 "black box" cover-up at Ground Zero.
More.
Click.
Edward Spannaus: Republicans and the Justice Department gear up to steal votes.
Click.
Fetal tissue graft restores lost sight.
Click. Department of Justice intervenes in same-sex marriage lawsuit in Orange County.
October 27, 2004
Click.
Rep. Henry Waxman charges the FDA is withholding documents re: flu vaccinations and
Chiron until after the election.
Click. Scientists have discovered a new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonizing the world.
Click. Karen Horst Cobb:
No longer a Christian.
October 26, 2004
Click.
Russia seeks return of UN inspectors to Iraq to find missing explosives.
Click.
Pepe Escobar: How Bush blew it in Tora Bora.
Click.
Paul Krugman: A culture of cover-ups.
Click.
University of Rhode Island research: Neutron activation analyses prove Oswald acted alone in JFK assassination.
Click. Lawyers try to open file of the kidnapping of Saudi prince Sultan Bin turkey.
October 25, 2004
Click. Foreign countries are turning to Bush's top campaign
fundraisers for access to Bush.
Click.
B. Ramen: On Kerry, Bush and Bin Laden.
Click. Hundreds of tons of explosives missing in Iraq.
Click. Timeline on missing explosives in Iraq.
Click. Patrick Graham: As soon as British troops are redeployed, the U.S. will again turn Fallujah
into a
bloodbath.
Click. Germany's cabinet is due to discuss a law that
would regulate limited genetic testing for employees in jobs like public transportation.
Click. Ashcroft's campaign against whistleblowers continues to have remarkable success.
October 22, 2004
Click.
Virginia McCullough:
DEAR PRESIDENT BUSH: CHIRON IS HEADQUARTERED IN EMERYVILLE, CALIFORNIA.
Click.
Alan Abelson of Barron’s, a weekly publication of Dow Jones, noted in his column of Sept. 27, 2004, that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld let slip some classified information in a briefing at the National Press Club “that the man we are holding captive is not Saddam Hussein, who,
indeed, was deep-sixed beneath the desolate sands, but none other than Osama bin Laden."
Click.
The Pentagon knows exactly where Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, it just
can't get to him, says 9/11 panelist John Lehman.
Click.
Sen. Carl Levin reports:
Pentagon official Douglas Feith distorted intelligence.
Click. Sy Hersh's news: He’s describing massacre In Iraq
Click. Andrew Greeley: Bush crew blows it again on the flu.
Click. Debora MacKenzie:
Experts fear escape of 1918 flu from lab.
Click. How New York's
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer became the most powerful man on Wall Street.
Click. Memory prosthesis for the human brain within 15 years.
Click. Tony Blair has taken use towards an elective dictatorship.
Click. Stephanie Mansfield:
Polite society anticipates Teresa's pizzaz.
October 21, 2004
Click.
Rick Perlstein: The end of Democracy.
Click. Pentagon board finds U.S. needs more troops in Iraq.
Click. Jack Shafer:
Journalism by remote control.
Click. High stress levels during infancy and early childhood can lead to the poor
development of communication zones in brain cells -- a condition found in mental
disorders such as autism, depression and mental retardation.
Click. Study finds 65,000 gay men and women in the military.
Public service announcement from Black Box Voting, a
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October 20, 2004
Click. White House demands total secrecy for U.S. spy budget.
Click. Pat Robertson: Bush told me there would be no casualties in Iraq.
Click. William J. Stunz:
Terrorism and the mob.
Click. A.C. Thompson: Enter the Matrix of LEIU. Secretive, unaccountable company sits at the information-sharing nexus of the country's law enforcement agencies.
Click. Tom Noel, the former chief of Texas' troubled electric grid, which is the target of a criminal probe over contracting abuses
and government inquiries into its costs, is among the finalists to head California's grid.
Click.
Lessley Anderson: Once you learn the full story of the mom-and-pop cult known as "The Family," you'll understand an unsettling
reality -- Any of us might have joined in.
Click. Good results for pill to block painful memories may lead to
wider testing. Critics warn
drugs could tamper with a person's identity.
Click. The
"Bush Flu": Vaccine issue is making Bush campaign ill.
October 19, 2004
Click. Robert Scheer:
The Bush administration is suppressing a
CIA report on 9/11 until after the election,
and this one names names.
Click. Chiron hires high-profile defense lawyer
Robert S. Bennett.
Click. Jim Lobe: So, did Saddam try to kill Bush's dad?
Click. Matthew Yglesias: Where fact meets fiction.
Click. Eric Stringfellow: Disobedience to ensure troops safer in
the long run.
Click. Doctors warn of flu shot "disaster". Organization
urges Bush to call summit.
Click. Flu gotta have connections.
Click. U.S. General says Bin Laden apparently alive, but no longer controls Al-Qaida.
Click. Teresa Heinz-Kerry would focus on gay tolerance as first lady.
Click. "Assistance dog" designation opens doors for pooches. With state's
blessing, San Francisco OKs hundreds of therapeutic pets.
October 18, 2004
Click. Scary
scenarios swirl around '04 elections.
Click. Nick Schwellenbach: Offensive biology. Is biodefense a bust?
Click. "Small business" can be a relative term with the Department of Defense.
Click. C. Deliso: Inside the occupation, a contractor speaks.
Click.
New York police urged to set up rogue networks.
Click.
Chris Mellor: Want to know the hardware behind Echelon?
Click. Stop this mission creep.
Click. Deadly
1991 -- a year of injustice that took down a President.
Two Senators' deaths predict the demise of a Presidency.
(Part 2) New series by Virginia McCullough and Kathryn
Dixon. [Click
to read part 1]
October 17, 2004
Click. (NYT Free Reg) What makes Bush's presidency so radical — even to some
Republicans — is his preternatural, faith-infused certainty in uncertain times
Click. Five members of an Iraqi-based platoon who refused a convoy order earlier this week were told they would be punished with a general discharge.
Click.
Revealed: The meeting that could have changed the history of Iraq.
Click.
This is where the election will be won or lost. And it ain't Baghdad.
Click.
America relies on flawed no-fly list to block fanatics.
Click. UK: Territorial Army infiltrated by Al-Qaeda.
Click. Osama Bin Laden bought
a ship for terror.
Click. The U.S. gambles all in the third battle for Fallujah.
Click. From Greco to Picasso, this exhibition traces 500 years of
Spanish portrait art.
October 15, 2004
Click. Scare: Edwards plane aborts takeoff.
Click. Chairman of Homeland Security Advisory Council, Joseph Grano, Jr. was helping to guide
America's security strategy at the same time he was a top executive with an
international banking firm that was investigated and eventually fined more than
$100 million for cash transfers to rogue nations, including Iraq, Iran, Libya and Cuba.
Click. U.S. Platoon arrested for refusing "suicide mission".
Click. David Lazarus: Bush plays his deficit shell game.
Click. David Morton:
Don't shoot me in the Capitol!
Click. Shell Oil tapped to draw up Iraq gas blueprint.
Click. Board member quits embattled Chiron Corp.
Click. Some states are fining, threatening jail for doctors, nurses who
give flu shots to non-risk groups.
Click. Independent
review finds Bush records that Texas National Guard officials missed
Click. U.S. science alliance eyes artificial retina.
Click. Martha Stewart: Yoooooo my faaaaans, no moooooore mooooooney, paaleeeeeze....
October 14, 2004
Click. Bush starts shuffling, i.e. looting, the government pension
program because the U.S. government reached the $7.384 trillion legal limit on how much it can borrow.
COMPARE AND CONTRAST:
Click. Flu vaccine may be available from Canada.
Click. United States Health & Human Services: More flu shots from abroad unlikely.
Click.
Pepe Escobar: Zarqawi -- Bush's man for all seasons.
Click. John Lettice: Indymedia seizures, a trawl for Genoa G8 trial cover-up?
Click. Jimmy Breslin: Positively pixilated by the religion of politics.
Click.
Arianna Huffington: Appealing to our lizard brains. Why Bush is still standing.
Who is fooling who?
Click. Senator Byrd
defends Dayton's decision to close his office.
Click.
Does Sen. Mark Dayton know something we don't?
Click. Anthrax slip-ups raise fears about planned biolabs.
Click. Daniel McGrory:
Al-Qa'ida financier on CIA's "ghost" list.
Click. Business "Empress" Margaret Wong of McWong International, links China and Sacramento.
October 13, 2004
Click.
Robert Parry: Bush's endless "predictive" wars.
Click. Martin Schram: Bush thinks you are all idiots.
Click. The Associated Press to provide the only national vote count on election night.
Click. Nikki Finke: Republicans sell out Christopher Reeve's Paralysis Act.
Click.
New confrontation looms over Jerusalem's most volatile Holy Site as Israel plans to restrict access during Ramadan.
Click. A. C. Thompson:
Cops across California are suing to classify police discipline records and to hold any misconduct hearings behind closed doors.
Click. Steve Conner: How nature allows the "gay gene" to flourish.
October 12, 2004
Click.
New York grand jury investigating Chiron's flu vaccine failure.
Click. Syed Saleem Shahzad:
Violent turn for
"Pakistani al-Qaeda".
Click.
Timothy Noah: Why Bush opposes Dred Scott: It's code for Roe v. Wade.
Click.
Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn, closed is Washington office today because a top-secret
intelligence report made him fear for his staff's safety.
Click.
Mark Ames: Save a Jew, save yourself! Sixty-five million Evangelicals can't be wrong!
Click. Sergie Halimi: Bush's appeal to America's underclass.
Click.
Stardom: Poppy Production to Create MORE Junkies.
Click. The renowned Marshall Plan to rebuild shattered economies officially expired
in 1952, but Berlin has accumulated a $12 billion nest egg from it.
October 11, 2004
Click. New information suggests that the United States may have played into Saddam
Hussein's plans for a quick war followed by a long guerrilla insurgency.
Click. Jim Hopkins: Was Chiron a victim of "too-lofty" goals?
Click. U.S. Department of Education is paying for rankings of
newspaper coverage of the No Child Left Behind law. Points are awarded for
stories that say President Bush and the Republican Party are strong on
education, among other factors
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Juan Cole: How would Cheney complete the war on terror?
Click. People are human-bacteria hybrid.
Click.
George Jahn: Anti-Hitler plotter honored, but tribute comes late and less than expected.
Click.
Director of British Museum bans anyone from ever seeing the "tabots" regarded by
Ethiopian Christians as representing the original Ark of the Covenant, the
wooden chest which once housed the Ten Commandments.
October 10, 2004
Click. Neil Mackay:
After Egypt, where will al-Qaeda strike next?
Click. (NYT)
Robin Marantz Henig: The genetic basis of race. (Special drug approved
for African American prevalent ailment. $400 to discover your own racial
composition.)
Click. Kerry faults Bush for shortage of flu vaccine.
Click. Laura Rozen: As Iran moves to the front burner, some in
Washington are arguing that with a little help exiles and dissidents can topple
the mullahs and establish a pro-Western democracy. Sound familiar?
Click. Michael Ledeen's adventures in history.
Click. Terrorist hunts around the world hampered by local sympathies, knowledge of
tough terrain.
Click. CIA "Old Guard" goes to war with Bush.
Click.
Martha walkin' the walk.
Click. Indians plan biggest casino ever near Rohnert Park.
Click. Seth Rosenfeld: 60's Free Speech leader Mario Savio got caught in FBI web.
Click. How Mario got caught in the FBI's meat grinder.
October 9, 2004
Click. Small Novato business group sues the U.S. Small Business administration to
reveal its files -- some fraud, pork, cozy defense contract deals suspected.
Click. (requires free Orange County Register registration) Web site to fight against Megan's law.
He is soliciting fellow convicts from across the nation to post photos, telephone
numbers and street addresses of children living in their neighborhoods.
Click. Elisabeth Rosenthal:
Pathologist on the hunt for saints and poets.
Click. Lionesses of Iraq.
In the dangerous Sunni Triangle, female GIs are
volunteering for dangerous duty.
Click. Dave Barry:
Centuries later women still baffle men.
October 8, 2004
Click. Juan Cole:
Bombs in Taba, Multan, Baghdad signal failure of War on Terror.
Click.
The U.S. government has no "hard and fast" rules for deciding who gets put
on the secret no-fly list of terror suspects barred from boarding airliners
Click.
The FBI seizes Indymedia servers. To delve much deeper:
Click.
Click. Salon reports:
Bush's mystery bulge. Is he wired to receive debate instructions?
Click.
Universal access to all human knowledge online could be had for around $260 million.
October 7, 2004
Click. Nothing to justify the invasion.
Click. Alexandra Marks:
Are terrorists casing planes? Some pilots see suspicious
activity but there's no way to report it.
Click. Ann
Louise Bardach: Scavenger Hunt. E. Howard Hunt talks about Guatemala, the Bay of Pigs, and
what really happened to Che.
Click.
Judge admonishes U.S. lawyers in case of Stephen Hatfill vs. Ashcroft. (Hatfill
sued for defamation about being named a "subject of interest" in the Anthrax investigation.)
Click. Robert Parry: Bush's "Transformational" Democracy.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Man Circulates Fliers Calling For BUSH ASSassination.
(UPDATE: October 8, 2004:
Thousand Oaks council hopeful arrested)
Click.
Harry Browne: Can America bring peace to the world?
Click.
Virginia McCullough: The U.S. military bases in the Philippines in
1929 as seen by
Captain H. A. Stecker.
October 7, 2004
Click. Nothing to justify the invasion.
Click. Alexandra Marks:
Are terrorists casing planes? Some pilots see suspicious
activity but there's no way to report it.
Click. Ann
Louise Bardach: Scavenger Hunt. E. Howard Hunt talks about Guatemala, the Bay of Pigs, and
what really happened to Che.
Click.
Judge admonishes U.S. lawyers in case of Stephen Hatfill vs. Ashcroft. (Hatfill
sued for defamation about being named a "subject of interest" in the Anthrax investigation.)
Click. Robert Parry: Bush's "Transformational" Democracy.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Man Circulates Fliers Calling For BUSH ASSassination.
Click.
Harry Browne: Can America bring peace to the world?
Click.
Virginia McCullough: The U.S. military bases in the Philippines in
1929 as seen by
Captain H. A. Stecker.
October 6, 2004
Click. Jimmy Breslin: At right moment, Edwards pounced.
Click. Maggie Fox: Flu shot shortage highlights lone U.S. struggle.
Click.
Tony Morro: The Key to the Court. The moral of Baker Botts: If at first you don't succeed in getting a high-end appellate practice,
buy, buy again. (Jim Baker's firm.)
Click. Special agent Jane Turner vs. the FBI.
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50,000 European psychiatric cases face review. Judges of the European Court of Human Rights ruled
legal safeguards protecting people who do not understand why they are detained
for psychiatric treatment were insufficient. The detention under common law of a
man with autism was a breach of human rights.
Click. Cannonfire
explains Bush's hidden earpiece to you with updates.
October 5, 2004
Click. Bruce Schneier: Does Big Brother want to watch?
Click.
Virginia McCullough: The U.S. military bases in the Philippines in
1929 as seen by
Captain H. A. Stecker.
Click.
Owais Tohid: Next wave of Al Qaeda leadership.
Click. Bruce Schneier: Does Big Brother want to watch?
Click. Feds probe Hillary Clinton's finances.
Click. The sky's the limit for new alliance of NASA and University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Click.
House votes to break up San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
October 4, 2004
Boston Globe investigation: Closed
for business. Deals but no debate in Congress:
Part 1: GOP flexing its majority power +
Diminishing debate +
The Globe's major findings +
Part 2: Energy bill a corporate triumph +
Corporate lobbyists influencing policy
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Daphna Berman: Pat Robertson says if Bush "touches" Jerusalem, we'll form 3rd party.
Click.
Virginia McCullough: The U.S. military bases in the Philippines in
1929 as seen by Captain H. A. Stecker.
Click. Donna Marsh O'Connor: If the puppet show is over,
prepare for the magic show.
Click. Melissa Carr: Just say no to Bush's (mental health) drugs.
Click. The live-in lab.
Click. Gaye LeBaron: Old-timers remember the heyday of the Russian
River as a resort area
October 2, 2004
Click.
Newsweek poll: Bush's lead has evaporated.
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BUSH'S "PNAC" FOR IRAN? Amir Oren: Inside track. Next year in Iran.
Click. The cost of the failed Iraqi "transition".
Click. Bill would put President Putin in charge of judges.
Click. Details about where recalled beef and poultry have been sold will remain secret in California. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed SB
1585, which would have made public information from a federal tracking system for potentially tainted meat.
October 1, 2004
Click. Pentagon stops negative reports from reaching the public.
Click. ID rule exists, but can't be seen.
Click. All's fair in the space war.
Click. New CIA director makes changes at the top.
September 30, 2004
Click. Kerry Catches On: It's War, Stupid! Bushies Brutal!
Click. Ellen Goodman: Welcome to faith based medicine.
Click. Catherine Bennett: Never mind the facts, trust Tony Blair's faith.
Click. Syed Saleem Shahzad: The al-Qaeda brains behind Pakistan's jihadis.
Click. The planned takeover of a major Midwestern farm loan
cooperative by a Dutch banking giant could help undermine the national co-op
loan system, members of a House subcommittee said at a hearing Wednesday.
Click. Jeff Jacoby: Abusing eminent domain.
Click. Ex-employee of Diebold now runs the election procedures in Solano County, CA.
Click. Botox babies.
September 29, 2004
Click. The Republican leadership of Congress is attempting to legalize
extraordinary rendition. "Extraordinary rendition" is the euphemism used for
sending terrorism suspects to countries that practice torture for interrogation.
Click. Josh Marshall:
FBI could talk to source of forged Niger papers. I did.
Click.
Italian ex-spy Rocco Martino discusses own role in Iraq-Niger uranium
traffic hoax.
Click. B. Raman: Why Amjad Farooqi had to die.
Click. Insider leaks to reporters spread as the CIA turns wary on Iraq.
Click. Jonathan
Alter: If we need to occupy another country that threatens us, we will either do it with the help of our allies or the draft.
Click. Dr. John Mack killed.
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Volcano "advisory" issued for Mt. Saint Helens.
September 28, 2004
Click. Rep. Nancy Pelosi derails the CIA plan to buy Iraq elections.
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America's new strategy in Iraq.
Click. Bye bye meaningful vote recounts in California.
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Karen Kwiatkowski: Roadmap for the prosecution.
Click. David H. Hackworth: While America slept.
Click. Rep. Barney Frank: A social security swindle.
September 27, 2004
Click. A national election security planning bulletin will be sent
today to the 50 states and the District, containing guidelines to governors and
election officials for coordination of law enforcement, polling place and
ballot-counting security, legal powers to order emergency election changes and
public communication from now through Election Day.
Click.
Jimmy Carter: Voting arrangements in Florida do not meet "basic
international requirements" and could undermine the US election.
Click. Andrew Gumble: Politics and sleaze envelop Orlando, Florida.
Click. Justice Department audit finds FBI still has large backlog of untranslated intercepts.
Click. Officials
at the Department of Homeland Security are investigating the reinstatement of
Faisal Gill, director of policy for intelligence for the agency who was briefly suspended for failing to disclose he was spokesman for the controversial
American Muslim Council.
Click.
E. L. Doctorow: The unfeeling president.
Click. James Fallows:
When George meets John.
Click. (Laugh until you cry.) "NY Times" already has the answers in the first Bush-Kerry debate.
Click. David M. Drucker: Battle heating up. Gov. Schwarzenegger has quietly started overhauling California's dysfunctional power system.
September 25, 2004
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How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power (even after Pearl Harbor). At the
Hague, two Holocaust survivors sue the US government and the Bush family for a total of $40bn in compensation claim
charging both materially benefited from Auschwitz slave labor during the second world war.
Click.
Gordon Prather: Iran's golden offer.
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Alexander Zaitchik: Can the GOP protect the national-security lie until November?
Click.
Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge Reports Investments in Homeland Security Contractors.
Click.
J. David Galland: In the absence of military leadership. They were called, "Air America", the CIA's
quasi-clandestine Air Force.
Click.
The World Health Organization said on Saturday it was "suspecting human-to-human transmission" of bird flu had occurred in northern
Thailand, marking what could be the first such transmission of the lethal virus.
Click. Children of military families at higher risk of being killed by their parents.
Click. Andrew Barksdale: Defense Dept. to seek more child abuse data.
Click.
Access to drugs may be limited by Bush's Medicare law.
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Robert
Gammon: Fire & Ice Cream: The story behind the story of the blaze at Fentons
of Oakland.
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Deidre Pike: Bikers consider themselves loyal, patriotic Americans--that’s why they’re infuriated by
laws that lump them in with terrorists.
September 24, 2004
Click. Jonathan Steele: Humiliated and impotent, every Iraqi is a hostage now.
Click. GOP stalls 9/11 changes with controversial anti-terror measures.
Click. Peter Galbraith:
The bungled transition in Iraq.
Click. David Kay and Hans Blix question U.S. detention of a dozen Iraqi scientists.
Click. Iraqi judge dismisses case against Ahmad Chalabi.
Click. Julie Post:
For God, Country, Yale and the CIA.
Click.
Bob Norman: John Kerry once took a shot at Miami's Felix
Rodriguez for his part in the Iran-contra scandal. Now the Bush family friend is shooting back.
Click. A FDA medical officer was told by top agency officials to delete material on the risks of antidepressant drugs
from records he was submitting to Congress.
Click. Stem cells could be used to cure some types of blindness in 2 years.
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NASA has released a comprehensive world viewing tool that allow
September 23, 2004
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Phillip Robertson: Hell.
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Can nuclear weapons be stopped?
Click. U.S. Attorney
Michael Shelby stated that on 09/13/04, US Attorney General John Ashcroft, had
a conference call with all 93 US Attorneys, an event which is extremely rare.
The US Attorneys were informed that without a doubt, an attack was going to be
perpetrated in the US within the next 6 weeks, prior to the elections.
Click. Judith Miller, New York Times reporter, hints she's willing to
do jail time, rather than testify in Plame case.
Click. The Armored Electronic Peacewagon.
Click. Cynthia Tucker: Zell Miller knows race-baiting lifted the GOP.
Click. The "Green Wall" shows who's boss at the Salinas Valley State Prison, California.
September 22, 2004
Click. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sold stakes this summer
in at least five companies after they were identified as doing business with the
Pentagon.
Click. Naomi Klein:
Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia.
Click. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the mysterious sadist who likes to carry out his own grisly acts of violence.
Click. Air Force Times: Bush’s Air Guard stint started well, then faded into mystery.
Click. The politics of Social Security. Kerry to use study to call Bush
plan a Wall Street windfall.
Click. Juan Cole: If America
were Iraq, what would it be like?
September 21, 2004
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Recruiting terrorists.
Click. Laura
Rozen: Hiding intelligence that matters.
Click. Debka: Zarqawi is using hostages to
ransom old friends, Drs Germ and Anthrax.
Click.
Governor Schwarzenegger works in secrecy in Sacramento.
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Jay Rosen: Did the President of CBS News have anyone in charge of reading the Internet and sending alerts?
Click. Government to order airlines to turn over passenger data to check names
against terror watch lists.
Click. Child abuse leads to adult heart disease.
September 19, 2004
Click. Bush's super-secret government.
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Greg Palast: The lynching of Dan Rather.
Click. German 9/11 retrial could hold surprises. New witness says plotters had loose tongues at meal.
Click.
A woman imprisoned in Abu Ghraib reports.
Click. Feds seeking $61K from alleged call girl, a Stanford law graduate, who worked to pay off her student loans.
Click. Quick read on your genetics.
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Bush, Marshal Foch and Iran.
Click. The meaning of security.
September 18, 2004
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Ehsan Ahrari: The Teflon presidency of George W. Bush.
Click. Mike Whitney: Iran October surprise.
Click. FBI's anti-terror October plan.
Click. Seymour Hersh's alternative history of Bush's war. He tells Salon about a disastrous battle the U.S. brass hushed up, the frightening True Believers in
the White House, and how Iran, not Israel, may have manipulated us into war.
(Note: Salon allows you to read this if you get a day pass and see an ad first.)
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Afghan warlord plans $100m Swiss-style ski resort.
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Eric Talmadge: "I will never be forgiven": Facing his own mortality, a veteran of Japan's bio-warfare program seeks to atone.
Click. Anne Applebaum: Medicare plans offer a dose of confusion.
Click. Andrew Cohen: Twists and turns in Colorado courtrooms from JonBenet to Kobe Bryant.
Click. Deconstructing Gov. Schwarzeneggers California State Performance Review.
September 17, 2004
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Kerry accuses Bush of secret plan to call up more Reservists and Guard units immediately after November 2.
Click. United States apologizes to Britain for terror leaks
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U.S. soldiers shoot first, no questions asked.
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Karen Kwiatkowski: The Al Qaeda candidate.
Click.
Greg Palast: Still unreported. The pay-off in the Bush Air Guard fix.
Click. Lou
Dobose: Don't mess with Texas: Character assassination and Karl Rove.
Click. Eric Umansky:
Pentagon
admits censoring casualty sites.
September 16, 2004
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Christopher Caen: Think globally, fight locally.
Click. Sidney Blumenthal: Far graver than Vietnam.
Click. Dick Foster: Soldiers say they were told to
re-enlist or face deployment to Iraq.
Click.
Ray McGovern: Gossing over the record.
Click. Larry Beinhart: Wag the press dog.
Click. The coming Senate battle: Open the Porter Goss file.
Click. Storm Season in U.S. may
be worst in 99 years as Hurricane Jeanne moves in.
Click. Labor Department web site
tracks U.S. jobs shipped overseas.
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A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to find
and make public by next week any unreleased files about President Bush's
Vietnam-era Air National Guard service to resolve a Freedom of Information Act
lawsuit filed by the Associated Press.
September 15, 2004
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Die Welt: Syria testing Chemical Weapons in Darfur.
Click. James
Brooke: Japan set to label China as war threat.
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Molly Ivins: Iraq outrage: Troops following orders from General Rove.
Click. James Risen: C.I.A. unit on bin Laden Is understaffed, a senior
official tells lawmakers.
Click. Rex Weyler:
The No-Conspiracy theory.
September 14, 2004
Click. Here's the solution: "Project Sheriff". Troops in Iraq to get combined lethal/nonlethal weapons system.
Click. David Talbot: Don't mess with the Bushes.
Click. Wayne Barrett:
How Kerry could craft a Bin Laden commercial
that makes him president.
Click. Most Americans would not cooperate as officials expect during a terror incident such as a smallpox or dirty bomb attack, survey shows. They are
suspicious of anti-terror plans.
Click. Engineers battle insurgents in oil blasts.
Click. David Scofield:
North Korea blast. The only certainty is doubt.
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Richard Lloyd Parry: Every dog as its day in the North Korean capitalist revolution.
Click. Terror sours Russia on the West.
Click. Method to turn off bad genes is set for test on human eyes.
September 13, 2004
Click. Pentagon revives memory project.
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Jeffrey Toobin: Is the Justice Department poised to stop voting fraud or to keep voters from voting?
Click.
Mape's Ranch sets the standard for environmental stewardship in the
Governor Schwarzenegger's world.
Click. Stardom: I Am DYING. I am DYING.
Click. Simon Jeffery:
Roll out the barrels.
Click. A review of President Bush's Guard years raises issues about the time he served.
Click. Gay students are offered special college scholarships.
September 11, 2004
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Gordon Prather: Outsource nukes?
Click. The U.S. administration's use of the G-word "genocide" for
the violence in Sudan was pushed by the evangelical right.
Click. Rick Salutin:
When religion is not.
Click. Juan Cole:
September 11 and its aftermath.
Click.
Robert Fisk: We Should Not Have Allowed 19 Murderers to Change our World.
Click. Bill Moyers:
9/11. Key government officials failed the system, and they failed the American people.
Click. Greg
Palast: September 11: What you "ought not to know", Document 199-I and the FBI's words to chill the soul.
Click.
Carlene Bauer: Ms. Heinz Kerry is a new flavor of election mate.
Click.
Contract expert calls Army bidding process a "sham".
September 10, 2004
Click. Syed Saleem Shahzad: Osama adds weight to Afghan resistance.
Click. Pepe Escobar: Why al-Qaeda is winning.
Click. Yevgeny Bendersky. Russia and its Muslim population - a balancing act.
Click.
Justin Berton: The government's plan for saving abandoned babies in Alameda County is no plan at all.
Click.
How the San Francisco DA's decision to drop prostitution charges against lap dancers will change the sexual culture of S.F. -- and,
perhaps, the country.
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Typewriter follies! Wingnuts wrong!
Click. The AWOL project.
Click. Pot odors wafting in the valley.
September 9, 2004
Click. Ridge
says Bush wants plan for school siege.
Click. J. David Galland: Soldier for the truth: Sgt. Samuel Provance.
Click. Haroon Siddiqui: The surreal world of George W. Bush.
Click.
Maureen Dowd: Cheney spits toads.
Click. Jordon Barab: Arnold: Chevron's Girly Man or Disney's?
Click. Russia asks Pakistan to eliminate finance for terrorism.
September 8, 2004
Click. Boston Globe: Bush fell short on duty at Guard.
Click. Does the Constitution prohibit the government from requiring a citizen
to carry an ID in order to travel within the United States? The case is Gilmore v. Ashcroft.
Click. Gilmore wants the case heard in public. Ashcroft wants secrecy. More:
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Click. Elizabeth Drew:
Pinning the blame.
Click. Juan Cole: Cheney, Halliburton and Iraq: The purloined letter.
Click. How a "Noah's Ark" on the Moon could help to save the world.
September 7, 2004
Click. U.S. military deaths in Iraq campaign pass 1,000.
Click.
August was the worst month for the U.S. in Iraq.
Click. Paul Krugman:
A mythic reality.
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Philip Gourevitch: Bush speak.
Click. Thomas Oliphant: Spin can't hide the economic slide.
Click. Kitty Kelly Bush book rumors.
Click. The FBI's secret "I" drive -- containing the
pre-revision data always withheld from defendants and the public.
Click.
CIA's Counterintelligence Center is buying off "liberal" studies, reports and conferences in the U.S.A.
Click.
Juan Cole reports on Iraq and the Pentagon spy case.
Click. GAO:
The former Medicare administrator should repay his government salary because of his efforts to keep higher estimates of the cost of a prescription drug plan
from Congress last year.
Click. Maths holy grail could bring disaster for the Internet.
September 6, 2004
THE
TRAGIC HEROIC SPOOKY STORIES OF WOMEN WHO WERE WITNESSES REGARDING THE
ASSASSINATION OF 
DEADLY
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YEAR OF INJUSTICE THAT TOOK DOWN
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