Inflation's rising toll on consumers
• By Mark Trumbull - The Christian Science MonitorConsumer prices overall, driven by rising energy costs, are heading up at a 5.1 percent annual pace. They rose 3.4 percent last year.
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Knesset member: Strike Iran now
• FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAUEitam, chairman of the National Union Party and a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, warned Israel would need to attack Iran by itself if the international community led by the United States fails to successfully halt Tehran
New tack on Hayden confirmation
• By Charlie Savage - Boston GlobeThe Bush administration moved yesterday to separate General Michael Hayden's nomination to be the next CIA director from discussion of the secret domestic spying programs that he designed as head of the National Security Agency, in a seeming reve
Biggest Passenger Plane Lands in Britain
• BBCThe Airbus A380 "superjumbo" is the largest civil aircraft ever built. Designed to carry 555 passengers in a three-class arrangement. A planned stretched version would carry 656 passengers, all-economy-class configuration, more than 800 pas
Chicago becomes largest city to defy PATRIOT Act
• Common Dreams[So where the hell is Phoenix?] Chicago would become the largest of 200 US cities to oppose civil liberties "abuses" invoked by the USA Patriot Act under a resolution advanced by a City Council committee over the objections of US Attorney P
Former NSA director says domestic spying deliberately violated the law
• Democracy NOW! (audio)Admiral Bobby Ray Inman has become the highest-ranking former NSA official to speak out about the domestic spy program. “There clearly was a line in the FISA statutes which says you couldn’t do this,” said Inman last week in remarks that have receive
Inactive-marine Congressman confirms marine corps atrocity
• AFP"Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood," John Murtha told reporters. "There was no firefight. There were no (roadside bombs) that killed these innocent people," he
Rumsfeld: Troop reductions in Iraq are not happening this year
• NPR (link to audio included)It may not be possible to reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq this year, according to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's testimony before a Senate committee. In addition, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the same comm
Coulter's War: Ann Coulter acknowledges the covert NeoCon war on Americans
Melinda Pillsbury-fosterAnn Coulter urges the Republican men she stigmatizes as wimpy to make war on Americans. See her twelve step program on Republican Manhood and buy a copy for Father's Day.
The 9/11 Story That Got Away!!
• AlternetNow, in an exclusive interview, Miller reveals how the attack on the Cole spurred her reporting on Al Qaida and led her, in July 2001, to a still-anonymous top-level White House source, who share top-secret NSA signals intelligence(SIGNIT) concerning
House passes $2.8 trillion dollar budget
• CNNThe House early Thursday passed a $2.8 trillion budget blueprint. The vote in the late-night session fell almost entirely along party lines, with the final vote tally 218-210. Casting ballots against the GOP package were all House Democrats; 12
Bush "turned his back on immigration bill"
• Associated pressRep. Jim Sensenbrenner, who has pushed a tough border security bill through the House, accused President Bush of abandoning the legislation after asking for many of its provisions. "He basically turned his back on provisions of the House-passed
Iraqi children suffering 'alarming' malnutrition
• ABC News[How can this be, since we have been in charge for over three years?] Malnutrition among Iraqi children has reached alarming levels, according to a UN-backed government survey showing people are struggling to cope three years after US-forces overthre
Rumsfeld seeks another $65 billion for Bush's War
• Associated PressWith war bills to pay, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is calling on Congress to pass President Bush's request for an extra $65 billion to cover costs in Iraq and Afghanistan this year.
The Ugly American
• Newhouse News ServiceIn the past, while Europeans, Asians and Arabs might have disliked American policies or specific U.S. leaders, they liked and admired Americans themselves. Polls now show an ominous turn. Majorities around the world think Americans are greedy, vio
Congress may force your ISP to spy on you
• CNETA prominent Republican on Capitol Hill has prepared legislation that would rewrite Internet privacy rules by requiring that logs of Americans' online activities be stored. The proposal comes just weeks after Attorney General Gonzales said Interne
New Presidential Memorandum Permits Intelligence Director To Authorize Telcos To Lie Without Violati
• Think ProgressOrdinarily, a company that conceals their transactions and activities from the public would violate securities law. But an presidential memorandum signed by the President on May 5 allows the Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, to auth
Torture in Turkey
• Raw StoryMurat Gezici, in his own words, has "never taken part in any political activities, ever." An agreeable, well-scrubbed native of the seaside town of Ceyhan in Turkey's southern Adana region, where his family has lived for generations, Ge
Check out the #3 CIA man's Hawaiian hideaway
• Raw StoryLetting defense contractors subsidize your wages really pays off. "Investigators are studying travel records of expensive trips to Hawaii and Europe taken by top CIA official Dusty Foggo and San Diego defense contractor Brent Wilkes,"
Egyptian scientist lends credence to Bosnia pyramid claim
• ReutersAn Egyptian geologist said that a hill in central Bosnia appeared to be a primitive man-made pyramid of uncertain age. It is difficult for nature to create blocks like this and oriented in one orientation," he said, pointing to compact polished
NASDAQ rating cut to junk status
• BusinessWeekOn May 16, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its long-term counterparty credit rating and bank loan rating on The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. to BB+ from BBB-. The move placed the company's credit rating below investment grade.
Bush's immigration "solutions" are already known not to work
• Associated PressBeto O'Rourke has lived in El Paso most of his life and cannot remember a time when there wasn't a fence or towering flood lights and pole-mounted cameras lining the banks of the Rio Grande. So when President Bush proposed adding a high-te
Syria arrests leading lawyer
• Associated PressSyrian police arrested the country's leading rights lawyer and 5 other rights activists, as a government newspaper rebuked those who had signed a petition calling for an improvement in Syrian-Lebanese relations. Anwar al-Bunni was dragged away
Last chromosome in human genome sequenced
• ReutersScientists have reached a landmark point in one of the world's most important scientific projects by sequencing the last chromosome in the Human Genome. Chromosome 1 contains nearly twice as many genes as the average chromosome and makes up eight
Iraq's Cabinet unveiled this weekend
• Associated PressIraq's incoming prime minister said he will unveil his Cabinet to parliament this weekend, the first sign that the country may finally be moving ahead with a national unity government after weeks of wrangling. There are hopes that sharing power s
Renditions could only have occurred with Europe's knowledge, say US officials
• ReutersA wave of CIA flights that secretly transferred terrorist suspects across Europe could only have been carried out with the knowledge of host nations, EU investigators quoted US officials as saying. Up to 50 people were moved across the continent to j
Texas may raise limits to 80 MPH on freeways
• USA TodayThe nation's top legal driving speed soon could rise to a long-forbidden 80 mph as Texas moves toward increasing the limit on parts of two interstate highways. But 85% of drivers on the affected highways already drive 76-79 mph, says the TxDOT
Web community rallies to free Egyptian blogger
• Christian Science Monitor"Today it hit me, I am really in prison. I'm not sure how I feel," began the May 10 entry on Alaa Abdel-Fatah's popular Egyptian blog manalaa.net. A pro-reform activist and prolific online critic of the Egyptian government, Mr. Abde
Enron judge eases way to guilty ruling
• Christian Science MonitorUS District Judge Lake, who has been lauded for running an evenhanded and efficient trial so far, stunned the legal community when he told the jury it may find Enron founder Kenneth Lay and its CEO Jeffrey Skilling guilty of simply ignoring red flags
Spam Wars: Attack of the Clones
• Washington PostA Silicon Valley company, Blue Security, simply asked the spammers to stop sending junk e-mail to his clients. Because those sort of requests tend to be ignored, they bombarded the spammers with requests from all 522,000 of its customers at the same
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