ABC News | Iranian leadership in contact with al-CIA-duh, excuse me al-Qaeda, according to the neocons.

Your New Reality | CIA takes capture from Art For War Propaganda video game, puts it on al-Qaeda website, and Murdoch Media says it is terrorist propaganda.

Kurt Nimmo | Michelle Malkin imagines Rachael Ray’s scarf as a kaffiyeh.

Infowars | O’Reilly wants you to think McClellan is a Judas for the “radical left.”

Hollywood Reporter | Hollywood to create show with the help of DHS to mask the fact the government has done nothing to protect the border or stem drug smuggling.

Daily Times | If the current economic slowdown deteriorates into a recession on the scale of those from the 1980s and early 1990’s, the number of failures will be much higher this time around — probably as high as 300 of them.

Paul Joseph Watson | New cases follow September 2007 crash of CIA plane containing 4 tonnes of cocaine.

Gulf Times | A euro-like currency is the “logical next step” after “creating a Union of South American States,” said Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

IndyStar | Marines will practice firing weapons, conducting patrols, running vehicle checkpoints, reacting to ambushes and employing nonlethal weapons “in an actual urban community.”

Intel StrikeThe Merida Initiative is a security aid package to Mexico and parts of Central America that was recently approved. It has been dubbed Plan Mexico and is a three year $1.4 billion “Regional Security Cooperation Initiative.”

The Newspaper | St. Louis, Missouri highway sets up speed traps with continuously changing speed limits.

Steve Watson | “Good news” Taser story provides evidence stun guns can be lethal.

Mark Weisbrot | We are facing the prospect of millions losing their homes, their jobs, their retirement savings, their health insurance, and their livelihoods.

Wajahat Ali | The 70 year old, Texas Congressman’s name and face adorned web pages, blogs, email spams, posters and pamphlets throughout the nation.

Ralph Forbes | According to the latest reports, 151 members of Congress invested close to a quarter-billion in companies that received defense contracts of at least $5 million in 2006.

Vnunet | Video surveillance is “beginning to be used for such tasks as identifying customer buying behavior, identifying criminal behavior before crimes take place, identifying objects left unattended in public venues, and much more.”

The Beacon | More accurately described as “Snoop On Something, Squeal On Somebody” campaign.

The Alex Jones Channel | Alex welcomes actor and comedian Joe Rogan.

Press Republican | “New York state is now stepping forward as one of the leaders in making EDLs available as an option.”

Scoop | The Bush administration has arrogated powers to itself that the British people even refused to grant King George III at the time of the Revolutionary War.

James Turk | To survive the impact of rising prices, Americans today – like Germans did eight decades ago – are selling cherished possessions.

ABC News | Bush: “You know, the truth is I honestly don’t remember whether I tried it or not. We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don’t remember.”

Paul Joseph Watson | America’s press whores gear up for another summer of fear-mongering with dubious “Al-Qaeda fan” WMD video.

Pat Shannan | Despite changing the rules, closing state conventions, Ron Paul Revolution grows.

Telegraph | Monbiot surprised Bolton allowed to “swim through the politest of polite soirees – which is of course Hay,” the literary festival in Wales.

Don’t Tase Me, Bro | Constitutional rights end at the “school gate,” according to Florida education officials.

Roadblock Revelations | According to the whistleblowers, ‘shotgunning’ occurs when agents on Roving Patrol stop vehicles absent reasonable suspicion and make up an excuse for the stop after the fact.

Kurt Nimmo | Faux News talking heads tag Jimmy Carter as a traitor for telling the truth about Israel’s nukes.

Kurt Nimmo | The fantastically successful intelligence asset may be headed for new leaders to eclipse the dead Osama.

Joseph Cannon | Despite Obi’s chronic foot-in-mouth syndrome, the CDS-sufferers still pretend that the Bosnia affair was the single worst lie in the history of mankind.

BBC News | The leaders of 12 South American nations have formed a regional body aimed at boosting economic and political integration in the region.

Science News | The incident in Connecticut last month is the first to suggest a beneficial cardiac effect from a Taser, an electroshock weapon that emits an incapacitating jolt of electricity, according to an upcoming medical report…though, “It might have been a coincidence.”

Associated Press | Palestinian police officers in riot gear trained under the desert sun Tuesday as part of a European Union-sponsored public order course begun after a deadly clash between police and demonstrators last fall.

AFP | The Pentagon said Tuesday it was sending invitations to news organizations to cover the arraignments of the five alleged September 11 co-conspirators in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

AP | The anguish of Hurricane Katrina should have ended for Gina Bouffanie and her daughter when they left their FEMA trailer. But with each hospital visit and each labored breath her child takes, the young mother fears it has just begun.

Trueveo | Propaganda piece from San Antonio, Texas, on the “bloody weekend” when cops forced drivers to submit to blood tests.

Associated Press | Pentagon figures show 40,000 U.S. troops have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder since 2003. But officials believe many more are keeping their illness secret.

Associated Press | Three Iraqis, including the father of a slain 9-year-old boy, appeared Tuesday before a federal grand jury investigating a deadly Sept. 16 shooting in Baghdad involving Blackwater Worldwide contractors.

AFP | A top Afghan intelligence official said Tuesday his agency received information several months ago that Al-Qaeda figurehead Osama bin Laden is hiding in northern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan.

Local 6 | A Central Florida war veteran faces a lawsuit for flying the American flag on a pole in his front yard. “I don’t understand why it would bring down the values of our homes,” homeowner Jimmie Watkins said.

Paul Joseph Watson | Asia Times says two U.S. Senators already briefed on attack plan.

London Guardian | Tensions between Tbilisi and Moscow increased yesterday after a UN report concluded that the Russian air force had shot down an unmanned Georgian spy drone over the breakaway region of Abkhazia.

New Tang Dynasty Television | Citizens are raising concerns that receipt fraud seems to be happening to money donations meant to be spent solely on helping people reconstruct their homes after the devastating disaster.

Counterpunch | Clinton’s remarks offer a look into her character. In Olbermann’s words, they “open a door wide into the soul of somebody who seeks the highest office in this country and through that door shows something not merely troubling but frightening.”

Reuters | Democrat Barack Obama underscored his willingness to talk to leaders of countries like Iran that are considered U.S. adversaries but said on Monday that does not necessarily mean an audience with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Daily Mail | Officials in Plymouth, Devon, are to send a questionnaire to every household asking them to give intimate personal details about their family.

UK Daily Mail | Miss Maxwell’s local council has decided that the pool – which is only 2ft deep – needs a lifeguard.

Euro News | Fishermen across western and southern Europe are threatening an open-ended strike from Wednesday in protest at rising fuel costs.

Steve Watson | A simulation of a North American Parliament, designed to “develop the participants’ sense of belonging to North America” and “and promote the creation of North American academia networks” is currently taking place in Montreal.

Paul Joseph Watson | Both Clinton and Bush exploited bombings within first year of taking office, Obama or McCain likely to enjoy the same opportunity