Black Voices | This weekend, John McCain and Barack Obama promised advocates for illegal immigrants, in essence, that amnesty supporters will be welcomed.

PRNewswire | DNC Releases New Web Video: ‘McCain vs. McCain: Immigration Reform’

AFP | The Pentagon charged a Saudi national suspected of leading Al-Qaeda with organizing some 40 attacks including the October 2000 USS Cole attack.

AP | The WTC’s owner proposed scrapping the schedule and budget for the prolonged rebuilding of the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying nearly every project is delayed and over budget.

Asia Times | With the US mired in its “war on terror”, China appears poised to challenge US interests in the region.

Asia Times | My computer screen went black. A glitch? No, it was a pop-up ad for the US Air Force, warning me that an enemy cyber attack could come at any moment.

Asia Times | The fact that the IMF is knocking on the very doors of its parents and waving legal papers about who lost the house, the car and the kids will only be buried in the US by pom-pom waving on CNBC telling all what a great time it is to buy.

LabourParty.org | MP Harry Cohen has critiqued the UK and US presence in Iraq, citing the attempts to force civil war, assets takeover and unpopular, long-standing occupation.

AFP | Iraq has failed to sign technical support agreements with global oil majors which were aimed at helping boost the war-torn country’s oil production.

Existentialist Cowboy | Calling a Republican a liar is redundant. It’s known by definition. McCain’s pathology is different. He’s thin-skinned, hot-tempered and out of control.

Reuters | Afghanistan will not be secure as long as insurgents are allowed to operate freely in sanctuaries on the Pakistan side of the border, a NATO spokesman said on Sunday.

Lataan Blogspot | Methinks they protesteth too much!

Kurt Nimmo | Truth Rising documents a growing movement the corporate media refuses to cover without bias and detraction.

ABC News | The Pentagon has a secret plan that would send U.S. special forces into Pakistan to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, but the White House has balked at giving the green light.

The Register | Sweden is on the verge of passing a far-reaching wiretapping program that would permit it to spy on all messages coming in & out of the country.

Asia Times | The more the Fed debases the dollar, the more money shifts away from the stock market into inflation hedges. The data leave no doubt of this. But, I propose a simple solution.

AP | The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries after it is switched on– but some critics fear the worst for the collider.

Daily Mail | Mercury fillings given to millions of Britons every year can be dangerous, the world’s biggest health regulator has warned.

Boing Boing | I went to log in, and was greeted by a terrific new ad. It’s as if their marketing department thinks that warrantless wiretapping is funny or something.

Washington Post | A new Army history of Iraq immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein faults military and civilian leaders for their planning for the war’s aftermath.

Billboard | Young on 9/11: He used that. Bush played on people’s fear, instead of people’s faith. They used fear to get where they wanted to go.

LewRockwell.com | Americans are content to define “freedom” in terms of those liberties we are permitted to exercise. Heller is a perfect example.

LewRockwell.com | Kent Snyder, chairman of the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign, lost his tragic battle with pneumonia last week. Kent was a true lover of liberty. He will be missed.

London Times | Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, may ask the defence secretary of President George W Bush to stay on if he wins the White House.

De Telegraaf | “We have been saved just in time. The situation in the US is much worse than we thought”, says Fortis chairman Maurice Lippens.

LewRockwell.com | After many months of peaceful coexistence, Atlanta police decided to pursue and ticket the monthly Critical Mass bike ride.

B Town Blog | Cops-in-training, at least in Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission facility, are apparently required to get pepper sprayed during training.

Epoch Times | The Chinese regime has deployed surface-to-air missiles in Beijing to prevent an airborne terrorist attack on the Olympics– which begin in 40 days.

Breitbart | The commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard said the government might shut down vital oil lanes through the Persian Gulf if the country were attacked.

YouTube | An activist stopped by the official residence of Queen Beatrix and left a few copies of Endgame and Loose Change for the infamous Bilderberger and her son Willem Alexander, Prince of Orange.

Paul Joseph Watson | Senator Joe Lieberman has echoed a national talking point by promising that the new president will be welcomed by a terror attack in 2009.

Epoch Times | Over 10,000 people rioted and torched the local police station and government buildings in the Guizhou province after the cover-up of an alleged rape and murder.

Press TV | An Iranian commander says the global community turned a blind eye to the downing of a passenger jet by the US navy in the Persian Gulf in 1988.

9/11 Blogger | Notre Dame High School is confronted about the attempt to contract murder by Michael Reagan, who serves on their board of directors.

LA Times | As forecasters take that possibility more seriously, they describe fundamental shifts in the way we work, where we live and how we spend our free time.

RIA Novosti | Russia is building the $1-billion facility, Iran’s first nuclear power plant, in the south of the country in accordance with a 1995 contract, and under UN supervision.

AFP | The U.S. gave a major boost to covert operations against Iran with Congress’s approval last year of President George W. Bush’s request for 400 million dollars.

London Telegraph | Bill Clinton is so bitter about Barack Obama’s victory over his wife Hillary that he has told friends the Democratic nominee will have to beg for his wholehearted support.

Kurt Nimmo | It should come as no surprise the corporate media is engaged in a propaganda campaign to convince you that the Second Amendment should be repealed.

Kara Hopkins | John Yoo and David Addington take the House Judiciary Committee for idiots.

Uruknet | “Both the security forces and the terrorists were created by the occupation and are working against the citizens of Mosul,” said Razaaq Jerjes, a 41-year-old doctor.

London Guardian | The cameras, they are multiplying – and now they even have ears. But the state hasn’t stopped to run the plan past us.

London Telegraph | Hundreds of thousands of parents will be banned from ferrying children to sports matches next year unless they have had criminal records checks, under new rules.

9/11 Blogger | Unanswered Questions from the 9/11 Families Report On 9/11 Commission.

AP | Pakistani forces bombarded suspected militant hideouts with mortar shells Saturday as the government launched a major offensive against Taliban.

NY Times | More than 3 million borrowers are in distress, and analysts are forecasting a couple of million more will fall behind on their payments in the coming year as home prices fall further and the economy weakens.

CNN | The World Health Organization, one of United Nations’ most important agencies, is opening a permanent office in Baghdad, a move that underscores recent security improvements in Iraq’s capital.

TIME | Buckingham Palace accountants insisted Friday that the cost of maintaining Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family is a bargain for taxpayers, while a prominent anti-monarchist group said many of the true costs are hidden.

Raw Story | John McCain was heckled today while giving a speech to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference.

AP | The Pentagon is preparing to order roughly 30,000 troops to Iraq early next year in a move that would allow the U.S. to maintain 15 combat brigades in the country through 2009.