Mercury News: "largely aspirational" Independent: Had the plotters ever enacted the plan, they would have been most unlikely to succeed because the river is lower than Manhattan. ... But an American counterterrorism official said that investigators had found no evidence that the Holland tunnel was part of the plot. Mr Mershon said the group specifically mentioned only the PATH tube tunnels beneath the Hudson. London Times: FBI officials said that the plot had been in its planning stages. It...

What really happened at the Libertarian Party convention? by Brian Doherty "What happened was: The Libertarian Party's platform, which a week ago had 61 planks, now has only 15. "The LP members in convention assembled have always had the power, via paper vote, to choose to retain or delete any platform plank, outside the normal floor debate. Prior to this convention, that power had never been used once. This time it was used to get rid of almost everything. (Some of the planks still present...

9 Killed as US troops fight Sadr's Mahdi Army in Baghdad. 15 Killed in 'Tit for tat' car bombings betwenn Iraqi Sunni and Shia. Yet another fake terrorist plot. Empire Weakens America Former US soldier pleads not guilty to rape, murder of Iraqis

Earlier in the day, the FBI admitted that two people working for the agency planted the idea of blowing up government buildings, including and FBI office in Miami, with members of an alleged South Florida terror group known as the Liberty City 7. The testimony came during efforts by attorneys for the alleged terrorists to get their clients released from custody until their trial on terrorism charges. Update: Jim Bovard: "This is the same type of scam that occurred routinely during the FBI...

The following is by Matt Barganier, Editor, Antiwar.com Iraqi journalist Alaa Hassan, who reported for the international news agency IPS (Inter Press Service) and whose work often appeared on Antiwar.com, was shot and killed in Baghdad.Hassan was killed on June 28 by armed men as he drove to work. It appears he was not targeted, but was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, part of the senseless violence engulfing Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.Hassan was one of IPS

by William Norman Grigg (Sorry Birchers, I'm stealing this whole article) Even as its talk radio auxiliaries accuse the New York Times and other media outlets of

Today from 5-7 Texas time. 95.9 or 92.7 FM in Austin. KAOS959.com to stream it online. Update: Here are the archives.

And just in time to criticize nationalism and celebrate independence. "Empires fall. The American empire will not always have the credit and global power it now has. It is in fact losing them with each day. It is thus much better on the Fourth to celebrate liberty, the idea of independence from the state, and hope and work for its rebirth, rather than be among those celebrating such a transient cause as the American nation-state with its current surplus of power and deficits in liberty and...

Check out this by Glenn Greenwald. Now you know. Thanks: Matt

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to...

See what I mean? Ooh, and check out this one.

I'm a big fan of the New American magazine's editor Will Grigg. Here's an example of what I mean: "In 1952, the individual who would become the Johnny Appleseed of American neo-Fascism, William F. Buckley, adumbrated that vision in an essay published by Commonweal. Owing to the threat posed by the Soviet Union, Buckley asserted,

In short, even if I were absolutely convinced that we had found towering piles of WMD in Iraq, I don't care. Neither should you or anyone else. It doesn't matter. By the way, there weren't any.

Hooray! My good friend, and sometimes partner in criminal/subversive activities, Angela Keaton, was elected today to the Libertarian Party National Committee. Also, she said at least one of the whiny, pro-war, Libertarian "moderate" leaders has quit the party, I suppose to go back to the Republicans where he belongs. It's either my friend Ernest Hancock or Bill Redpath - who I don't know, but they say is antiwar - for chair. Individualism in American politics is not dead yet. Update: Redpath...

Hey y'all, I want to recommend this great article from Vanity Fair, reprinted in the Independent, about the sorry, Orwellian state of "Great" Britain under Tony Blair. But does Tony Blair have drooling war-bot idiots who blindly support his every move like Bush has in his Red-State Fascists? How does he get away with it? I gotta say, the attacks on the NY Times and the Supreme Court this week are pretty disturbing. It's like the entire political debate in this country has devolved to the level...