for today: Bruce Fein and James Ridgeway. Listen live 11am-1pm Texas time here.

Sleep Tight, Peaceniks.

Hey people, help me out here... You see, I just don't know what to make of the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, recent statements by His Royal Majesty, the President on His Absolute Authority, and a number of other items whose veracity may or may not hail from the ninth circle of kookdom. My feelings occasionally run into a sense of foreboding and dread when I think about what could be in store if certain trends are carried out to their logical conclusion... Sometimes it seems to me...

by Philip Giraldi in the National Interest. It seems they lie in order to destroy liberty. Or something like that...

In Search of John Doe No. 2: The Story the Feds Never Told About the Oklahoma City Bombing by James Ridgeway In Search of John Doe No. 2: Primary Sources (!!!) The Complicated Defense of Timothy McVeigh Interview of McVeigh lawyer Robert Nigh By Celia Perry Ridgeway will be on Antiwar Radio Friday.

for today: J.D. Cash RIP, News, Sheldon Richman. Listen live here 11-1pm Texas time. Mp3 here.

Stephen Gordon unleashed. AngelaKeaton.com is up and running. Old blog post shuffled. New comedy gold created. Want to know what I am like after a three day bender? Todd Andrew Barnett and Chris Bennett were very patient. I'm free, baby.  I'm free.

Read this. Via Mike Tennant.

for today: Robert Parry. Listen here, 11-1.

from LobeLog.com Greg Sargent at the TPM Café just posted an important entry on Vice President Dick Cheney’s contribution to the contretemps between the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Eric Edelman, and Sen. Hillary Clinton regarding the Pentagon’s contingency planning for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq. Sargent’s account — including Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ efforts to calm the dispute — offers a good summary of the current state of play. Briefly, in an appearance Tuesday on...

Michael Roston at RAW STORY has the word from the Oversight Committee's Republican staff. A member of the Committee's Republican staff told RAW STORY that the White House had no role in the ex-Defense Secretary's decision not to testify, and that he was not available due to 'a conflict.'

Subject: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal An Annotated Bibliographic Guide 1. Introduction The New Deal administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a critical watershed in the development of the welfare-warfare state in the United States. Precedents concerning public policy and ideology set during that period are still with us today. However there is much mythology and misunderstanding regarding FDR and the New Deal found in academic and popular historical accounts. Educated...

Former FBI translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is the most gagged woman in US history. Attorney General John Ashcroft twice invoked the rarely used States Secrets Privilege in her case under the guise of classified secrets and protecting national security. In a recent speech, Sibel again emphasized that the reason that she has been gagged is not for reasons of national security, but rather to cover-up criminality, treason, by high level US officials. As evidence for this claim, Sibel...

Christine Smith discusses peace activism on the Liberated Space.

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