Political/Social
2006

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"The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." - Edward Dowling, Editor and Priest, Chicago Daily News, 28jul41

2006

• Gulf War Veterans Information System Report for November 2006 - Department of Veterans Affairs 31dec2006
• Harper's Yearly Review for 2006 31dec2006
• "Godfather," "King," "Sex Machine": The World Mourns Death of James Brown - San Francisco Chronicle 27dec2006
• 2,974 Dead: U.S. Deaths in Iraq Exceed 9-11 Count - AP 25dec2006
• The Meaning of Brown vs. the Board: The 1954 opinion did not establish colorblindness as a legal principle - Los Angeles Times 25dec2006
• Bush Signs Bill for Preservation of World War II Internment Camps - AP 22dec2006
• Attacks in Iraq at Record High, Pentagon Says - New York Times 19dec2006
• Robert Gates: Failure in Iraq Will Haunt U.S. - AP / Houston Chronicle 18dec2006
• A Realistic America is the Silver Lining of this Great Iraqi Darkness - The Times (UK) 10dec2006
• U.S. Has Most Prisoners in World Due to Tough Laws - The Scotsman (UK) 9dec2006
• U.S. Government Intends to Win the War in Iraq - Media Monitors 7dec2006
• Economic Storm Brewing in America - The Telegraph (UK) 7dec2006
• Automated Targeting System (ATS): Traveler Risk System May Violate Ban - AP 7dec2006
• Iraq Study Group: A Fatal Flaw -  The Nation 7dec2006
• NORTHCOM Urban Operations - The Byrne Report / The Bohemian 6dec2006
• Panel: Bush's Iraq Policies Have Failed - AP / ABC News 6dec2006
• Bolton Forced to Resign: Bush Loses Another Ally as UN Ambassador Bolton Resigns in Face of Senate Hostility -  Guardian (UK) 5dec2006
• At Least 2,901 Dead in Iraq: 4 Marines Die in Iraq Emergency Landing - AP / San Jose Mercury News 4dec2006
• Homeland Security Department Rates Travelers for Terrorism with Automated Targeting System (ATS) - AP / Washington Post 30nov2006
• U.S. Marines: No Longer Able to Defeat Western Iraq Insurgency or Counter al-Qaeda Popularity - Washington Post 28nov2006
• Brandon Mayfield: U.S. Will Pay $2 Million to Lawyer Wrongly Jailed - New York Times 20nov2006
• Berkeley to FCC: Get Lost - Association of Micro-Power Broadcasters (AMPB) 29nov2006
• Judge Strikes Down Bush on Terror Groups - AP / Seattle Post-Intelligencer 28nov2006
• U.S. Economic Outlook: Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke Remarks Before the National Italian American Foundation, New York City 28nov2006
• Democrats Pledge Array of Investigations - AP 26nov2006
• NYPD Bullet Kills Groom on Wedding Day - AP 25nov2006
• Iraq Bush Meeting: Iraq PM Facing Criticism Over Bush Talks - AP 25nov2006
• Al-Sadr Group: Cancel Bush Meeting as there is "no reason to meet the criminal who is behind terrorism in Iraq" - Al Jazeera (Doha, Qatar) 24nov2006
• Howler: Review of Allen Ginsberg's "Collected Poems, 1947-1997" - New York Times 19nov2006
• One Shot in Wal-Mart Playstation Waiting Line: More injured  - AP 17nov2006
• Rudy Giuliani Steps Toward '08 Presidential Bid - AP 13nov2006
• Bush Mocked by Leader of al-Qaida in Iraq - AP 10nov2006
• Pelosi’s Ties to Bay Area Jewish Community Run Deep - J - The Jewish Newsweekly 10nov2006
• George and Nancy Make Nice - Kurt Nimmo 9nov2006
• Pelosi to Bury the Hatchet with Bush  - AP 9nov2006
• Donald Rumsfeld Resigns as Secretary of Defense - AP 8nov2006
• Bush Trumpets Iraq Verdict to Rally Support - New York Times 6nov2006
• Vice President Dick Cheney Interviewed by George Stephanopoulos - ABC 5nov2006
• Evangelist Steps Down Amid Gay Sex Claim: Rev. Ted Haggard Paid Man for Sex - AP 3nov2006
• Bush Says Rumsfeld, Cheney Should Stay - AP 1nov2006
• Al-Qaeda Wants Republicans to Win - Consortium News 31oct2006
• Zapatista Call: Blockades Nov. 1, Strike Nov. 20: OAXACA IS NOT ALONE! 30oct2006
• G.I. Death Toll Reaches 100 for Month: Bomb Kills Dozens in Baghdad - AP 30oct2006
• US Troops Death Toll in Iraq at 2,811: Fourth Deadliest Month - AP 28oct2006
• Rumsfeld To War Critics: 'Back Off' - AP 26oct2006
• Rumsfeld Sees Iraq Benchmark Dispute as Politics - Reuters 26oct2006
• US Commerce Department: Home Price Drop is Largest in 35 Years -  AP 26oct2006
• U.N. Says Human Rights Violators Cite U.S. Torture - AP/ Washington Post 24oct2006
• American Diplomat on Iraq: ‘Arrogant and Stupid’ - Zaman Daily (Istanbul/Turkey) 23oct2006
• US Civil War and Russian Revolution Wouldn't Fit Donald Rumsfeld's New Definition of Civil War - San Francisco Chronicle 22oct2006
• Poll Signals More Republican Woes As Disapproval of Congress Grows - Wall Street Journal 19oct2006
• Bush Signs New Interrogation Bill as Lawyers Vow to Fight It: New rules deny rights of detainees - Boston Globe 18oct2006
• U.S. Population Hits 300 Million - AP 17oct2006
• Bush: Why a Christian in the White House Felt Betrayed -  Time magazine 16oct2006
• Great Lakes Defense: U.S. Firing Plans for Great Lakes Raise Concerns - New York Times 16oct2006
• General Sir Richard Dannatt Blew Apart Blair's Disastrous Foreign Policy with One Interview  - The Independent (UK) 15oct2006
• Expecting U.S. Help, Sent to Guantánamo: Abdul Rahim Al Ginco - New York Times 15oct2006
• Americans Question Bush on 9/11 Intelligence - Angus Reid Global Monitor Polls & Research 14oct2006
• Record US Trade Deficit Casts Doubt on Growth - Financial Times (UK) 12oct2006
• Privatizing Our Public Housing Units: An In-depth Look at How The Coliseum Gardens Public Housing Units Became Privatized - Lynda Carson 11oct2006
• Study: 655,000 Iraqis Died Due to War - AP 11oct2006
• "War is a Racket": 9/11 Message of an Ex-Marine to the Anti-War Movement - Sam Lwin / Mindfully.org 9oct2006
• Luis Posada Carriles: CIA Warned of 1976 Cuban Plane Bomb Plot - AP 9oct2006
• Saddam Guards Buried People Alive - AP 9oct2006
• Black Panthers Laid Course for Social Programs: A Legacy of Activism - Oakland Tribune 8oct2006
• Luis Posada Carriles: Castro Foe With C.I.A. Ties Puts U.S. in an Awkward Spot -  New York Times 8oct2006
• Pentagon to Probe Gitmo Beatings Claim -  AP 7oct2006
• Hidden Costs of the Iraqi War Exposed - Black Commentator i.200, 5oct2006
• Cheney: The Fatal Touch - Joan Didion / The New York Review of Books 5oct2006
• Bush Signs Homeland Security Bill: Border Fence a' la McDonalds - AP 4oct2006
• Baghdad Bomb Kills 14 as Blasts Reach Peak [2727 Total US Military Deaths] - Reuters 4oct2006
• Across Nation, Housing Costs Rise as Burden - New York Times 3oct2006
• Rumsfeld: Venezuela Build-Up is Concern -  AP 2oct2006
• Condoleezza Rice: No Memory of CIA Warning of Coming al-Qaida Attack in U.S. - AP 2oct2006
• An Economy of Buccaneers and Fantasists: Weapons of Mass Financial Destruction - Le Monde diplomatique (Paris, France) 1oct2006
• A Portrait of Bush as a Victim of His Own Certitude: State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III by Bob Woodward - Book Review / New York Times 30sep2006
  • Enemy Initiated Attacks Against Coalition and Iraqis Each Month - May 2003 to May 2006 - Bob Woodward on 60-Minutes 1oct2006
• Torture Bill States Non-Allegiance To Bush Is Terrorism - Prison Planet 29sep2006
  • Gonzales Cautions Judges on Interfering with Bush's Anti-Terrorism Tactics - AP 29sep2006
  • Rushing Off a Cliff - Editorial / New York Times 28sep2006
  • Congress May Give the President the Power to Lock Up Almost Anyone He Thinks is a Terror Threat - LA Times 28sep2006
  • Agreement Is Reached on Detainee Bill - International Herald Tribune / New York Times 21sep2006
• Spike Lee's documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" Reviewed - Black Commentator 28sep2006
• Iraq is 'Cause Celebre' for Extremists: Intelligence Report - AP (plus declassified segments of report) 26sep2006
• Congress Is Winding Down, but Much Is Left Undone - New York Times 25sep2006
• Chavez Leads Anti-US 'War': Bush the Devil - Times of India 21sep2006
  • Chavez: "The Devil Came Here Yesterday" - Full text of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez U.N. address 20sep2006
• Boeing Group Gets U.S. Border Pact: $2 Billion Contract for a Virtual Fence - Wall Street Journal 20sep2006
• Secret Banff Meeting of CEOs and the Defense Establishment: Militarization and the Deconstruction of North America - Global Research (Canada) 19sep2006
• U.S. Holds AP Photographer in Iraq for 5 Months - AP 17sep2006
• U.S. War Prisons Legal Vacuum for 14,000 - AP 17sep2006
• The Enemy Will Attack Again, says Bush - Irish Examiner (Cork) 16sep2006
• George Bush Speaking in the Rose Garden - Transcription/NY Times 15sep2006
• Rebuff for Bush on Terror Trials in a Senate Test - New York Times 15sep2006
• Pope's Speech Condemned by Muslim Leaders, Want Apology - Reuters (includes complete English translation of German text) 15sep2006
• 9/11: Bush, Democrats Spar Over 9/11 Speech's Message - AP 12sep2006
• 9/11: Five Years Later: Almost all our assumptions about how 9/11 would alter our lives forever turned out to be wrong -  San Francisco Chronicle 10sep2006
• U.S. Paid 10 Journalists for Anti-Castro Reports Radio Martí or TV Martí - Miami Herald (and NYT) 8sep2006
• Tape Shows 9/11 Attackers: al Qaeda on TV - Reuters 7sep2006
• Bush Transfers 14 Key Suspects to Guantanamo AND Acknowledges Covert Detention Program - Washington Post (includes speech) 6sep2006
• Bush Defends War Strategy, Quoting Repeatedly From Osama Bin Laden (includes complete speech) - AP 5sep2006
• Intel to Cut 10,500 Jobs by Mid-2007 - San Jose Mercury News 5sep2006
• The War on Terror: Fooled Again - Editorial / Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) 2sep2006
• 'Flat Daddy' Cutouts Ease Longing of Guard Families as they Cope in 2 Dimensions -  Boston Globe 30aug2006
• Mayor Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson Speaking in Salt Lake City About Bush's War 30aug2006
• The Men Who Knew Too Much? NSA Wiretapping Whistleblowers Found Dead in Italy and Greece -  Bradblog 22aug2006
• Soldiers Die, CEOs Prosper - Editorial / Boston Globe 30aug2006
• The Bush Mercenary Jackpot - The Nation 28aug2006
• 9/11: Can Anything Be Done? - Paul Craig Roberts (past assistant secretary of US Treasury) 27aug2006
• Home for Sale, by Anxious Owner - New York Times 25aug2006
• Guantanamo: The Unending Torture of Omar Khadr - Rolling Stone 24aug2006
• New Signs of Cooling in Housing: The housing market is deteriorating by the month - New York Times 24aug2006
• US Marine Call-Up Signals a Long War: Troop levels in Iraq could remain at current levels for two years - Christian Science Monitor 24aug2006
• Troops to be Recalled: Marine Corps Stretched Thin by Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan - San Jose Mercury News 23aug2006
• Housing: After the Boom Housing Slump Proves Painful For Some Owners and Builders - Wall Street Journal 23aug200
• Red Light Cameras Called Success Says Berkeley Police: ACLU Not So Sure - East Bay Daily News 22aug2006
• Father of Army Officer Resisting War Speaks Out - Berkeley Daily Planet 22aug2006
• Housing Costs: Payment Spikes Might Gore Those With ARMs - San Francisco Chronicle 20aug2006
• Vacation Costs: The Rise of Shrinking-Vacation Syndrome - New York Times 20aug2006
• IRS Enlists Help in Collecting Delinquent Taxes -  New York Times 20aug2006
• 9/11 Investigative Journalist Harassed and Beaten by Undercover Cops - Christopher Bollyn / Rumor Mill News 16aug2006
• A Permanent Goodbye to the United States - Michael C. Ruppert / From The Wilderness 16aug2006
• Snooze (not news): Reporters Ordered by Federal Judge to Testify in Steroids Probe - Reuters 15aug2006
• Wal-Mart: Thomas Coughlin Gets 27 Months Home Confinement and 5 Years Probation for Stealing from Wal-Mart - AP 11aug2006
• Claude Allen: Bush's Domestic Policy Adviser Pleads Guilty to Shoplifting - Bay Area Reporter 10aug2006
• Alaska Governor Freezes Hiring Because of Prudhoe Bay Shutdown -  AP 9aug2006
• U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq now at 2,591  - AP 7aug2006
• Evangelicals Are Addicted To Porn - Press Release / ChristiaNet 7aug2006
• What Road to Take When Real Estate Is Not a Sure Bet - New York Times 6aug2006
• World Trade Center Tells a Real Story - EITB (Basque Radio and Television) 5aug2006
• Israel in Lebanon: A Force to be Reckoned With -  Asia Times 4aug2006
• MoveOn's Revolt Divides Democrats - Wall Street Journal 1aug2006
• Men Not Working, and Not Wanting Just Any Job - New York Times 31jul2006
• Israeli Missiles Kill at least 56, Mostly Children: Bush and Rice Make No Demands -  AP 30jul2006 - AP 30jul2006
• Las Vegas Makes It Illegal to Feed Homeless - New York Times 28jul2006
• Israeli Raid in Lebanon Kills United Nations Observers - Agence France-Presse 26jul2006
  • Israel Troops Ignored' UN Plea 10 Times - BBC News 26jul2006
• Condoleeza Rice Seeks 'Urgent and Enduring' Peace -  AP 25jul2006
• Israel: Red Cross Ambulances Destroyed in Israeli Air Strike -  The Guardian (UK) 25jul2006
• U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis: Depleted Uranium Possible -  New York Times 22jul2006
• Israel Using Chemical Weapons in Lebanon: Belgian Doctor - Expatica (Belgium) 20jul2006
• Bush Personally Blocked Eavesdropping Program Probe - A.P. 19jul2006
• Newt Gingrich says, "Let's Face It, It's WWIII" -  Seattle Times 16jul2006
• Bush's Military Tribunals Violate US Law -  Irish Times (Ireland) 30jun2006
• Secret Bush Administration Program: Bush Says Report on Bank Data Was Disgraceful -  New York Times 27jun2006
  • Cheney Assails Press on Report on Bank Data - New York Times 24jun2006
  • Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror - New York Times 23jun2006
• 'End Times' Religious Groups Want Apocalypse Soon: Relying on High Tech to hasten its arrival  - Los Angeles Times 22jun2006
• Bush Defends U.S. Policy In Europe  - Chicago Tribune 21jun2006
• Japan to Leave Iraq - Statement by the Prime Minister of Japan - Press Release / Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan 20jun2006
• Robert Zoellick Leaving State Department, to Join Goldman Sachs Group - Bloomberg 19jun2006
• US Rejected Iranian Overtures in 2003 - Jerusalem Post 18jun2006
• Investigation Of Oakland Housing Authority Underway: Search Warrant Seeks OHA Computer -  Indy Media News Wire 16jun2006
• Supreme Court Gives Police more Power: to use evidence from a search where they didn't first announce their presence. - Christian Science Monitor (plus ruling) 16jun2006
• U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq Pass 2,500 and Tony Snow Dismissively Says "It's a number" - Tony Snow, White House spokesperson 15jun2006
• Mohammed Abdul Kahar, "I Feared [The Police] Were Going to Kill Us All" -  The Scotsman (UK) 14jun2006
• The Impossibility of Flying Heavy Aircraft Without Training - Earth's Common Sense Think Tank 13jun2006
• FBI Tipped-Off about 9/11 - Scholars for 9/11 Truth 12jun2006
• Guantanamo Suicides are considered 'Acts of War' - Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) 11jun2006
• Article 3 of Geneva Convention: Provisions against humiliating detainees should remain in Army Field Manual - EDITORIAL / Los Angeles Times 6jun2006
• China’s Middle-Class Dream Shattered: Millions of Graduates Face Unemployment - WSWS 2jun2006
• Some Whistle-Blowers Lose Free-Speech Protections - New York Times (plus other articles) 31may2006
• Frist Breaks With Others in G.O.P. Over Raid: Sees No Breach of Constitution in Jefferson Inquiry -  New York Times 29may2006
• Berkeley Icon Took It All Off for His Cause ‘Naked Guy’ Who Gained National Media Attention in 1990s Dead In Apparent Suicide -  Daily Cal 25may2006
• Iraq: Ramadi is ‘Out of Control’- AP 24may2006
• 9/11: Zogby Poll: Over 70 Million American Adults Support New 9/11 Investigation - PRWeb 23may2006
• AT&T's Implementation of NSA Spying on American Citizens: Whistle-Blower's Evidence, Uncut - Wired 22may2006
• Noam Chomsky: Foreign-policy Critic Speaks at West Point -  The Journal News 21apr2006
• Documents from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006) - Bureau of Public Secrets 25may2006
• NYSE Unveils Proposed Tie-Up With Euronext as Rival Scrambles - Wall Street Journal 22may2006
• Fannie Mae Expected to Pay Fine Of Several Hundred-Million Dollars: Officials Fostered Arrogant Culture And a Disregard for Rules - (plus others) Reuters 22may2006
• Malcolm X Slated for Remembrances On What Would've Been His 81st Birthday - BlackAmericaWeb 19may2006
• Everybody Look What's Going Down - Commentary / Wiscasset Newspaper 18may2006
• 9/11 Pentagon Crash:  Sept. 11 Images Hard to Believe - San Francisco Chronicle 18may2006
• Italy's Prodi Calls Iraq Occupation a 'Grave Error' -  Washington Post 18may2006
• Bush Set To Send Guard to Mexican Border: Critics Cite Strain on Troops - Washington Post 15may2006
• In Kentucky Hills, a Homeland Security Bonanza for Rep. Harold "Hal" Rogers - R-Ky. -  New York Times 14may2006
• Unprecedented Tension Within the Modern World: An Open Letter from a Black Minister - The Black Commentator 11may2006
• Ford Says It's Patriotic to Buy A Mustang, but Sienna Is Made In Indiana With More U.S. Parts  -  Wall Street Journal 11may2006
• Bush Sidesteps Intent of Congress: He Officially Disregards Portions he Doesn't Agree With -  San Francisco Chronicle 7may2006
• Five Men Held After Speaking Foreign Language on U.S. Airliner  -  CBC News (Canada) 6may2006
• 2,000 Mexican Police Storm Riot Town to Free Hostages - Agence France-Presse 5may2006
• Hurricane Katrina and the Racial Gulf - DuBois Review 1may2006
• Bush Broke 750 Laws: Bush Challenges Hundreds of Laws: President Cites Powers of his Office - Boston Globe 30apr2006
• 9/11: What Conspiracy Theory? Jeff Strahl / Mindfully.org 30apr2006
• Oakland: Fraud And Corruption At The Oakland Housing Authority Results In Mass Evictions! - Lynda Carson / Indymedia 27apr2006
• 9/11: The Hidden History of 9-11-2001 - Research in Political Economy (abstract) online 25apr2006
• Bush to Tap Tony Snow, Fox News Personality, As His Press Secretary - AP/Wall Street Journal 25apr2005
• People Pawning Possessions to Pay for Petroleum - KBTV (Beaumont, TX) 25apr2006
• Pentagon Implements Global Military: Policing Second 9/11 to Provide an "Opportunity" to Intervene -  Global Research (Canada) 24apr2006
  • Rumsfeld Approved Military's Most Ambitious Secret Plan on Terror - Washington Post 23apr2006
• Bin Laden Accuses West: Transcript - Aljazeera (Qatar) 23apr2006
• The True Cost of a College Education -  The Observer (UK) 23apr2006
• Bush is a Fool for Keeping Rumsfeld: The defence secretary is one liability a battered White House can't afford - The Economist Magazine (UK) 22apr2006
• Bush: The Worst President in History? - Rolling Stone 21apr2006
• Iraq: 2,371 Names of the Dead  - New York Times 21apr2006
• 9/11: San Francisco Chronicle Hit Piece Says "Whole Country" Saw Plane Hit Pentagon! So show us the video! - Prison Planet.com 20apr2006
• The Iran Plans: Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb? Seymour M Hersh / The New Yorker 17apr2006
• Dropout Nation: 30% of America's High School Students Leave without Graduating  -  Time 17apr2006
• Christine Todd Whitman: Former EPA Director Advocates Balancing Environment, Business - The Arizona Republic 14apr2006
• More Retired Generals Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation -  New York Times 14apr2005
• Analysis: Criticism Mounts vs. Rumsfeld: For Bush to Fire Rumsfeld is to declare himself a failure as president  - AP 13apr2006
  • Ex-U.S. Iraq General: Rumsfeld Should Quit: Batiste is Fourth Retired General Calling for Resignation - CNN 13apr2006
• Bush Lied: Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary - Washington Post 12apr2006
• Iraq: U.S. Casualties Total 2,361 With at Least 33 in April: Rumsfeld Defends Iraq War Planning While Generals Demand Resignation - AP 12apr2006
• 9/11: Physicist Says Heat Substance Felled WTC: Thermite  - Deseret Morning News 10apr2006
  • Molten metal, White Smoke and the World Trade Center Collapses - STEVEN E. JONES / Abstract for a presentation at the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters at Snow College, Ephraim, Utah. 7apr2006
• Why Iraq was a Mistake - Lieut. Gen. Greg Newbold (Ret) / Time 10apr2006
  • Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold: Third Retired General Wants Rumsfeld Out -  New York Times 10apr2006
• France Abandons Contested Youth Jobs Plan That Caused Massive Rioting - Agence France-Presse 10apr2006
• A Survey of CEO Compensation: Adding It All Up - Wall Street Journal 10apr2006
• Condi and Rummy  - New York Times 7apr2006
• Libby: Cheney Is A Liar: Bush Ordered Intelligence Leak - BBC (UK) 7apr2006
• AT&T Diverting Internet Traffic to NSA Wholesale: In Violation of Federal Wiretapping Laws and 4th Amendment - Press Release / EFF 6apr2006
• Libby Says Bush OK'd Leak - AP 06apr2006
• Meet Dick Cheney’s Staff  - The American Prospect 5apr2006
• Condoleezza Rice's Statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on US-India Civil Nuclear Deal - Indo Asian News Service 5apr2006
• GAO Cover-Up in $26 Billion Missile System -  New York Times 2apr2006
• Federal Government Abandoned Affordable Housing Along With Millions of Americans to Poverty and Homelessness - The Street Spirit (Oakland, CA) 1apr2006
• World Trade Center Emergency Calls Released: Half the Conversation Conveys Horror of 9/11 -  Los Angeles Times (and other articles) 1apr2006
• David Ray Griffin Speaks About 9/11: Prominent Theologian to Present Omitted Facts and Demand a Full Investigation - Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland 30mar2006
  • 9/11: The Myth and the Reality DAVID RAY GRIFFIN (Authorized Version) Text and link to MP3 audio 30mar2006
• Race Dialogue Is Back, But… Did Racism Ever Go Away? - Black Commentator 30mar2006
• 911: Propping Up the War on Terror: Lies about the WTC by NIST and Underwriters Laboratories - Kevin Ryan / Scholars for 9/11 Truth (undated) 30mar2006
• 911: Explosive Testimony: The 911 Oral Histories - Dr. David Ray Griffin, Author and Theologian Interviewed on Guns and Butter 29mar2006
• 9/11: Long Live The 9/11 Conspiracy! -  San Francisco Chronicle 29mar2006
• Poor Measurement: New Census Report on Measuring Poverty Raises Concerns -  Economic Policy Institute 28mar2006
• Seventeen Iraqi Shiites Killed in US Clashes - Agence France-Presse 27mar2006
• 911: The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll - New York Magazine 27mar2006
• Caspar Weinberger, Dead at 88 - Obituary / The Guardian (UK) 26mar2006
• Iraqis Killed by US Troops ‘On Rampage’: Claims of Atrocities by Soldiers Mount -  Sunday Times (UK) 26mar2006
• Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse? Professor Steven E. Jones  19mar2006
  • Defense Contractor and CNN Collaborated on Analysis of Collapse of World Trade Center Towers - Global Research 19mar2006
• Iraq: Task Force 6-26: In Secret Unit's 'Black Room,' a Grim Portrait of U.S. Abuse -  New York Times 19mar2006
• French Protesters Give Ultimatum to Scrap Job Law: No to CPE - Reuters 19mar2006
• Congress Raises Ceiling for Borrowing: $100 Billion Is Spent Without Offsetting Cuts -  Washington Post 17mar2006
• Police Memos Say Arrest Tactics Calmed Protest -  New York Times 17mar2006
• Bush Reaffirms Doctrine of Pre-emptive Strikes -  AP 16mar2006
• The Poor Get Richer: Blue-collar workers are making salary gains -- but don't cheer yet - Fortune 15mar2006
• Arab Central Banks Move Assets Out of Dollar -  The Independent (UK) 14mar2006
• U.S. Rights Report Should Include U.S. Abuses - Knight Ridder 13mar2006
• Bush Channeled $2.15bn (£1.25bn) to Faith-Based Charities Last Year - Guardian (UK) 11mar2006
• Hillary Clinton Quiet About Past Wal-Mart Ties - AP 10mar2006
• FCC Nominee Robert McDowell: Lobbyist Past Has No Effect - Bloomberg News 10mar2006
• U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton Resigns: Ties to Abramoff Indian Deals - AP 10mar2006
• US Trade Gap Widens in January to Record $68.5 Billion -  Reuters 9mar2006
• Guantánamo Detainee Told Geneva Rights Irrelevant -  The Guardian (UK) 6mar2006
• All the Organic Broccoli in the World Won't Be Enough to Save the Planet - Guardian (UK) 4mar2006
• Guantanamo: Documents Reveal the Stories of Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay -  Los Angeles Times 4mar2006
• Guantanamo: US to Release Partial List of Guantanamo Detainees -  Reuters 3mar2006
• Bush: Strike, Protests Paralyze Pakistan Before Bush Visit -  Reuters 3mar2006
• Bush: Thousands in India Protest Bush's Visit -  New York Times (plus others) 2mar2006
• The Middle East Cauldron Will Scald Us All: Islam’s Resistance Movement -  Le Monde diplomatique (Paris) 1mar2006
• Employed Turn to Food Banks -  Daily Californian 1mar2006
• Bush Was Told of Levees' Possible Failure Before Katrina -  Knight Ridder 1mar2006
• Spying on Citizens by National Guard: Legislator's New Allegations -  Contra Costa County Times 1mar2006
• Bush White House Warned of Civil War in Iraq in 2003 - Editor & Publisher 28feb2006
• Now It's Cheney In The Firing Line - The Scotsman (Scotland) 25feb2006
• Planet Earth As Weapon and Target - Leuren Moret / World Affairs, The Journal of International Issues 24feb2006
• Iraq Exit Without a Strategy: The popular response to Iraq's latest atrocities has been to blame the occupation, not rival sects -  The Guardian (UK) 24feb2006
• Earnings Premium for Skilled Workers Down Sharply in Recent Years -  Economic Policy Institute 22feb2006
• Weekly Review -  Harper's Magazine 21feb2006
• US Rejects Attack on Guantanamo - The Australian (Sydney) 18feb2006
• Outsourcing Is Climbing Skills Ladder  - New York Times 16feb2006
• Permanent Bases Point Toward Permanent War: Is The Neocon Nightmare Winding Down, Or Just Getting Started? -  Orb Standard 16feb2006
• Wal-Mart: A 'Movement' Against Wal-Mart? -  The Black Commentator 16feb2006
• Cheney: Hit Refresh? -  Wall Street Journal 16feb2006
• Abu Ghraib: New Photos of Abu Ghraib Abuse Surface - AP 15feb2006
• Bush Administration Spent Over $1.6 Billion on Advertising and Public Relations Contracts Since 2003 - U.S. House Committee on Government Reform 13feb2006
• CIA Chief Sacked for Opposing Torture -  The Sunday Times (UK) 12feb2006
• Annan Prepares for Privatisation of UN - The Business (UK) 12feb2006
• Violent Crime Rising Sharply in Some Cities -  New York Times 12feb2006
• Bush Sells Off America - Details $1B Land Sales - AP (plus many other articles) 10feb2006
• Katrina: Ex-FEMA Leader Says Bush Aides Knew of Floods -  New York Times 11feb2006
  • Katrina: Transcript of Senate Hearing on Government's Response to Hurricane Katrina 10feb2006
• 2005 Trade Deficit Hits Record of $725.8B - USA Today 10feb2006
• Bush Budget has Energy Gaps: Plan would cut funding aimed at conservation - Boston Globe 8feb2006
• More Than 2,250 U.S. Military Died In Iraq So Far - AP / Los Angeles Times 7feb2006
• Bush Would Boost Defense, Security In Budget Plan: Social Programs Face Cuts In Proposal for Fiscal 2007; Worries Over Heating Bills - Wall Street Journal 7feb2006
• Will Bush's War on Terror Bring Back Detention Camps? -  Pacific News Service 6feb2006
• The Loving Arms of Arms Lovers: I have joined the NRA - San Francisco Chronicle 5feb2006
• Spying: Sen. Arlen Specter Criticizes Rationale for Bush Spying -  AP 5feb2006
• Annual Estimates of the Population by Five-Year Age Groups and Sex for the United States: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2006 - U.S. Census Bureau 2feb2006
• It's Capitalism or a Habitable Planet - You Can't Have Both - Guardian (UK) 2feb2006
• Bush to Request $439.3B Defense Budget - AP 2feb2006
• Sheehan & Young: 2 Ejections From House Denounced: Capitol police chief apologizes to G.I.'s mom, lawmaker's wife - San Francisco Chronicle 2feb2006
• Bush Seeks Funds to Weaken Iran from Within - Financial Times (UK) 1feb2006
• John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - East Bay Express 1feb2006
• Congress Sends Budget to Bush Slashing Social Spending: But the War Rages On - Agence France Presse 1feb2006
• Housing Authority Interrogation Is Right Out of Kafka - Street Spirit 1feb2006
• Answer the Question or Face Homelessness: Housing Authority Abuses abuses its tenants civil rights with the "Citizenship" Question -  Poor Magazine 1feb2006
• Spying in U.S. Strains Debate on Patriot Act: Congress No Closer to Renewal After 5-week Extension -  San Francisco Chronicle 31jan2006
• Halliburton subsidiary KBR: Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps -  Pacific News Service 31jan2006
• Haiti: Democracy Undone: Back Channels vs. Policy; Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos -  New York Times 29jan2006
• Security: Ubiquitous Security Barriers Get a Fashionable Flourish -  Washington Post 29jan2006
• How the US Fell Out of Love With Its Cars -  The Observer (UK) 29jan2006
• 9/11: Explosive Testimony: Revelations about the Twin Towers in the 9/11 Oral Histories  - David Ray Griffin 26jan2006
• US Military Stretched to Breaking Point - The Guardian (UK) 26jan2006
• The Case For Impeachment: It's not just for radicals anymore - San Francsico Bay Guardian 25jan2006
• Rumsfeld Refutes Army Assessments, Insists `Force is Not Broken' - Dallas Morning News / Los Angeles Times 25jan2006
• Gangster US Accused Over Torture -  The Telegraph (UK) 25jan2006
• Security: 'Ring of Steel' for New York? To Protect Lower Manhattan - Wall Street Journal 25jan2006
• Bin Laden Tapes: There is No Reason Whatsoever to Believe They Are Authentic - Al Jazeera (Dubai) 21jan2006
• Bin Laden Tapes: Another of the NeoCons' "Greatest Hits" Just Another CIA Fake - PrisonPlanet.com 20jan2006
• Army Raises Top Enlistment Age to Less Than 40  - Pueblo Chieftain 20jan2006
• Government V. Google -  AP 19jan2006
  • Gonzales v. Google, Inc. 18jan2006
• Stormontgate (UK): United Kingdom Govt Defends Collapse of Northern Ireland Spy Trial - Reuters 17jan2006
• Walter Cronkite: Time for U.S. to Leave Iraq - AP 16jan2006
• Amadou Bailo Diallo (September 2, 1975-February 4, 1999) to be Remembered at Casa Frela Gallery in New York City, Opening on 4 February 2006 - Press Release 16jan2006
• Bush Broke the Law with Domestic Spying Program, Gore Says -  San Jose Mercury News (plus other articles) 16jan2006
• UK: MP Phone Tap Ban 'May Be Lifted' - BBC News 15jan2006
• Pakistanis Condemn Purported CIA Attack - AP 14jan2006
• Wal-Mart: Maryland Votes To Override Veto Of Wal-Mart Bill - Wall Street Journal (plus other articles) 13jan2006
• US Army in Iraq Institutionally Racist, Claims British Officer -  The Guardian (UK) 12jan2006
• Cheney Taken to Hospital After Complaining of Breathlessness -  The Independent (UK) (plus other aritlces)10jan2006
• US Government and Citizens Running On Empty:
  • U.S. Hovers Close To Its Debt Ceiling - San Francisco Chronicle 8jan2006
  • Americans Saving Less Than Nothing: Spending Could Outstrip Income in 2005: Hasn't Happened Since the Depression -  San Francisco Chronicle 8jan2006
• Albert Hofmann: Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His Problem Child -  New York Times 7jan2006

• Schwarzenegger's State of the State: 'I Say build it - Sacramento Bee 6jan2006

  • Schwarzenegger Press Release with Speech 5jan2006

• Postage Rate Increase: Two More Pennies For Your Letters - CBS News 6jan2006

• City of Oakland, CA Continues to Pay for Police Violence -  East Bay Daily News 5jan2006

• Bush Scrambles to Return Abramoff Money - Detroit Free Press 5jan2006

• Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez: Career of General in Charge During Abu Ghraib May End -  New York Times 5jan2005

• Jose Padilla: Court Clears Way for Criminal Trial in Padilla Case -  Los Angeles Times 4jan2006

• Gilberto Gil: Minister of Counterculture - The Guardian Weekly (UK) 5jan2006

• Cost of US Military Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan Through Fiscal Year 2006 and Beyond -  Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments 4jan2006

• US Lobbyist Abramoff Pleads Guilty - Financial Times (UK) and Washington Post (includes plea agreement) 3jan2006

• Is The Berkeley Honda Boycott A Just Cause? - Berkeley Daily Planet 3jan2006

• U.S. Has End in Sight on Iraq Rebuilding: Much of the Funding Diverted - Washington Post 2jan2006

• The Middle Class on the Precipice: Rising Financial Risks for American Families - Harvard Magazine v.108, n.3, 1jan2006

• Death Wish in Massachusetts: It’s been almost 60 years since the last execution -  Boston Globe 1jan2006

• Big Brother Disqualifies the Poor from Getting Help - Street Spirit 1jan2006

• The Best Housing & Poverty Review of 2005 - Lynda Carson 2jan2006

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More...from past years

• Guantanamo: Mohammad Sagheer vs. Government of USA: Suit for Recovery of Damages and Compensation of US $10.4 Million - Leuren Moret 31dec03

• Wen Ho Lee: Manipulating The Media -  SF Chronicle 26dec03

• Dick Cheney's Empire Christmas Card: "If a sparrow can fall to the ground without His notice, it is likely that an empire can rise without His help?" 24dec03
• Electronic Voting Machines: Hackers Threaten to Short-Circuit E-Voting Plans -  London Times (UK) 15nov03
• Pentagon Investigates Movement of Funds: Concealed $20 Million - Washington Post 30sep03
• Study Finds Net Gain From Pollution Rules: OMB Overturns Past Findings on Benefits -  Washington Post 27sep03
• Ashcroft: A Demon for Our Times Editorial / Wall Street Journal 22sep03

• US Patriot Act: Faking out the Constitution - SF Chronicle 11sep03

• Closing V.A. Hospitals Has Congress Squirming  - NY Times 16aug03

• Troops in Iraq Face Pay Cut - SF Chronicle 14aug03

• 'Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush' Coming to Reelection Campaigns and Toy Boxes Near You -  Washington Post 12aug03

• High Court Justice Crusades for Mercy: "Sentences Too Severe, Too Long"  - SF Chronicle 10aug03

• Report: Politics and the Bush Administration - (Exec Summ) Rep. Henry A Waxman / US House of Rep. Comm. on Gov. Reform 7aug03

• Career Officer Does Eye-Opening Stint Inside Pentagon - Karen Kwiatkowski / Knight-Ridder / Ohio Beacon Journal 31jul03

• America is a Religion - George Monbiot / The Guardian (UK) 29jul03

• One of every 143 U.S. Residents in Prison - AP 27jul03

• Are Prisons Obsolete? - ANGELA Y. DAVIS Speaking at the First Congregational Church of Oakland 26jul03
• Analysis of an Electronic Voting System - Kohno, Stubblefield, Rubin, and Wallach 23jul03
• Patriot Act: Patriot Revolution? Cities From Cambridge to Berkeley Reject Anti-Terror Measure -  ABC News 1jul03
• Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) - supports individual & collective resistance to war.

• Ten Reasons Why The U.S. is an OUTLAW NATION

• Patriot Act: US Patriot Registration Website - must-see humor

• R.U.R. Rossums Universal Robots  - Karel Capek 1920

• Income Tax Law in Effect To-Day - New York Times  1nov1913

• "I don't think all this dirt will fit back into the hole.  We'd better dig another one."

• Seven Deadly Sins -  Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)

• Common Sense Chapter 1 On the Origin and Design of Government in General, With Concise Remarks on the English Constitution  - Thomas Paine 1776

• Tao Te Ching -  Lao-tzu (551-479 BCE) translated by Stephen Mitchell 1988

• The Art of War  -  Sun Tzu (China abt.500 BC) 

• Kali: The Feminine Force