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Sheehan Announces Candidacy Against Pelosi in California
The Democratic Party seems determined to let George Bush run amok. Many insiders claim the thinking is that the more damage Bush does to America, the more damage he will do to the Republican Party, and thus the more Democrats will get elected. In other words, Bush is the tiger, the DNC is the hunter, and we are the bait. Needless to say, many Americans find it objectionable that the Democrats would flirt with further national destruction for partisan political gain. But what can we do about it? Here’s one potential answer.

Time To Fight Back Against Online Disinfo Agents and Trolls
Online saboteurs threaten to edit 9/11 truth movement out of existence. You've heard of the Digg Bury Brigade and you've read countless comments from ill-informed Neo-Cons who engage in ad hominem attacks and smear jobs, but there's a new menace that threatens to hamstring the 9/11 truth movement and it needs to be confronted now - Wikipedia trolls who have initiated an organized campaign to deep-six our information from the Internet.

Wikipedia and the Intelligence Services
Is the Net's popular encyclopedia marred by disinformation? Anyone who knows the universal success of Wikipedia will immediately grasp the importance of the issue. The fact that most Internet search engines, such as Google, give Wikipedia articles top ranking only raises the stakes to a higher level.

Revealed: MI5's role in torture flight hell
An Iraqi who was a key source of intelligence for MI5 has given the first ever full insider's account of being seized by the CIA and bundled on to an illegal 'torture flight' under the programme known as extraordinary rendition. In a remarkable interview, British resident Bisher al-Rawi has told how he was betrayed by the security service despite having helped keep track of Abu Qatada, the Muslim cleric accused of being Osama bin Laden's 'ambassador in Europe'.

Pupils fingerprinted without parents’ consent
Schools in Wales could fingerprint pupils as young as four without asking for parental consent first, it emerged yesterday. Under new guidelines schools throughout Wales could opt to collect a child’s biometric data including their fingerprints, retina scans, hand measurements and typing patterns. And because the Data Protection Act fails to specify that parental consent must be sought, schools could gather the information without parents’ permission.

Bush calls on Congress to update surveillance law
President Bush on Saturday urged Congress to reform the law that outlines how intelligence organizations monitor the communications of suspected terrorists without violating civil liberties. During his weekly radio address, the president called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, also known as FISA, 'badly out of date.' Written in 1978, FISA addressed the technologies of an era that is now outdated, he said.

Officer calls Guantanamo reviews a sham
Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, a military intelligence officer, spent six months at the Department of Defense working in the office that reviews the government's cases against detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. His experience - as recounted in a sworn affidavit - is credited with helping to persuade the Supreme Court to take a second look at the Bush administration's war-on-terror powers.

World Net Daily Attempts to Debunk Tillman Murder Evidence As Leftist Conspiracy Theory
Claims Olbermann and Wesley Clark didn't discuss Tillman case in the context of a high-level murder cover-up when the video manifestly contradicts this. World Net Daily today sought to dismiss clear evidence that Pat Tillman was murdered by attempting to marginalize the issue as a leftist conspiracy theory and by suggesting Wesley Clark and Keith Olbermann didn't lend credence to the murder angle - when they clearly did.

Last-ditch fight against Murdoch at 'Wall Street Journal'
Opponents of Rupert Murdoch's planned takeover of The Wall Street Journal made last-ditch efforts over the weekend to persuade the Bancroft family, which controls a majority of the stock in the financial paper's parent company, Dow Jones & Co, to reject the sale in a crucial vote scheduled for tomorrow.

CNN: TSA knew 'dry run' terror alerts were bogus
The Transportation Security Agency's national security bulletin issued was based on bogus examples that were combined to give the impression of ominous terrorist plotting, CNN reports. 'That bulletin for law enforcement eyes only told of suspicious items recently found in passenger's bags at airport checkpoints, warned that they may signify dry runs for terrorist attacks,' CNN's Brian Todd reported Friday afternoon. 'Well it turns out none of that is true.'

Pupil fingerprinting in schools is unnecessary, intrusive and insecure
Lib Dem Shadow Minister for Schools Greg Mulholland leads a House of Commons adjournment debate on use of biometric data in schools. Opening the debate, Lib Dem Shadow Minister for Schools, Greg Mulholland said, 'In this country, thousands of schools are collecting fingerprints or other forms of biometric data from pupils as young as three.'

Freed Indian doctor to leave Australia
An Indian doctor freed from jail after Australia dropped terrorism charges against him will be leaving Australia on Saturday after receiving the go-ahead from immigration officials, his lawyer said. Mohamed Haneef was released from prison on Friday after Australian authorities abandoned the case against him, saying there was a lack of evidence to prove his connection with a failed car bomb plot in Britain.

Oil-rich Iran turns heat on President over petrol rationing
One month after Iran - the world's fourth biggest oil producer - triggered violent protests by introducing petrol rationing overnight, the shock measures are beginning to bite. But will they also bite the man who introduced them, Iran's radical President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the self-proclaimed champion of the poor?

London 'flooded' in disaster film
In scenes that may no longer be dismissed as far-fetched, a new film is to chart what would happen if the Thames Barrier was overwhelmed. The movie, based on a book by Richard Doyle, imagines how London would look if it was deluged by a surge of water. Flood, which features Robert Carlyle, was shot over 11 weeks last year. The author has said he believes there is a real threat to the capital. He has called for the government to take "its head out of the sand".

Anti-Russian Talk
The first visit of Great Britain’s new Prime Minister Gordon Brown to the U.S. begins Sunday. Relations with Russia will be one of the key topics in his talks with U.S. President George Bush. Most likely, Washington and London will agree to stand together both on the deployment of U.S. missile defense elements in Europe, and on the Andrei Lugovoi case.