Ynet News | Defense Secretary Gates, who opposes US action against Iran, urged to tighten sanction against Tehran while keeping all options open

After Downing Street | Influential former Pentagon official Richard Perle has been exploring going into the oil business in Iraq and Kazakhstan.

New York Post | A rookie cop – the son of a highly respected New York City detective – has been stripped of his badge and gun after being caught on video viciously attacking a bicyclist who was part of a Times Square demonstration.

WSJ | The Virtual Army Experience — a traveling exhibit of the U.S. Army — has been touring the country but critics don’t like the idea of the military using giant videogames as a recruiting tool.

AFP | Talks on a new world trade pact broke down without agreement here Tuesday, delegates said, after more than a week of bitter wrangling.

Radio Australia | The IMF has a particularly gloomy assessment of the US economy.

AFP | President George W. Bush renewed a ban on imports from military-ruled Myanmar.

Reuters | The video is entitled “The Al Qaeda Plan,” an echo of “The Nazi Plan” made by Oscar-winning director George Stevens as evidence in the Nuremberg war crimes trials of German leaders after World War II.

Steve Watson | You couldn’t make it up if you tried. Police in Ozark, Missouri repeatedly tased a critically injured sixteen year old boy after he “refused to comply with the officers”.

Wayne Madsen | Longtime GOP dirty tricks operative Roger Stone allegedly had a “piece of the action” in Emperors Club VIP, the New York and New Jersey escort service that was patronized by former New York Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer.

Knowledge Driven Revolution | The scientific rulers will provide one kind of education for ordinary men and women, and another for those who are to become holders of scientific power.

George Washington Blog | Hedge funds and other investors are buying up farms, farmland, fertilizer, grain elevators, shipping equipment and other necessities for producing food.

Daniel Taylor | Barack Obama’s July 24th speech in Berlin brought to light the Democratic Presidential candidates’ globalist views, mirroring those of the Council on Foreign Relations and other globalist think tanks.

Exurban League | Rangel’s bill calls for a civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security.

YouTube | For 2 months at Camp Pendleton there have been military operations on an increasing scale and the local news have provided sanitized versions of these ops.

YouTube | For 2 months at Camp Pendleton there have been military operations on an increasing scale and the local news have provided sanitized versions of these ops.

Steve Watson | Full page adverts in weekend newspapers ask kids to rat on their friends and family in order to prevent “climate crimes.”

Associated Press | A deficit approaching $490 billion would easily surpass the record deficit of $413 billion set in 2004.

Mike Whitney | The daily barrage of bad news is really starting to get on people’s nerves; it’s obvious everywhere you look.

Jim Kouri | Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean are two Border Patrol agents shamelessly prosecuted by the U.S. government for shooting and wounding a Mexican drug smuggler.

Associated Press | The hot line receives up to 250 calls per day — double the average number calling when it began.

Washington Times | The United States is becoming increasingly reliant upon China to finance its budget deficit, which will likely triple this year, jumping from $162 billion in fiscal 2007 to nearly $500 billion in fiscal 2008.

ABC News | Olympics, elections, transition into a new presidential administration cause for “heightened awareness and action,” according to FBI director Robert Mueller.

YouTube | Bill Moyers interviews Nation Institute Fellow Jeremy Scahill, author of the national bestseller Blackwater on the implications of the use of private contractors on American soil.

YouTube | Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 does not mention anything about street photography.

Infowars | Theaters, restaurants and hotels will be covered in an anti-terror blueprint to be published by Security Minister Lord West later this year.

TocqueDeville | Having a global economy is great for pirates, but is devasting for democracy, sovereignty, and justice.

Brent Jessop | “Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented.”

Cryptogon | Did you take out a conservative loan that you could actually afford?

Karen DeCoster | He is teaming up with the fascist Bloomberg to stop people from smoking “around the globe.”

Think Progress | Investigative journalist Jane Mayer notes that FBI agents refused to participate in the CIA’s interrogation of terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay because they determined it to be “borderline torture.”

Associated Press | Most inflation this year has come from food and fuel, as retailers resisted passing along to strapped consumers the higher prices manufacturers charged them, but coming price increases may leave them with no choice.

Huffington Post | It was recently reported that at least 900 police officers are expected to come to Denver from Wyoming and 12 other locations around the state to assist with security during the convention, for a cost of $25 million in federal tax dollars.

Bob Chapman | If you don’t own gold, silver and their related shares under the Williams scenario, you will quite simply be vaporized.

Philip Giraldi | Israel is willing to behave with complete ruthlessness towards the US if they feel that the stakes are high enough, witness the attack on the USS Liberty and the bombing of the US Consulate in Alexandria in the 1950s.

Kurt Kasun | I expect the Keynesians to win out and for us to receive the biggest fiscal expansion of government, coupled with continued loose monetary policy, in the history of the world in order to limit the fallout of an economic collapse.

YouTube | If it looks like Obama, Iran will be attacked before the election. If it looks like McCain, Iran will be attacked after the election, according to the Clinton turncoat.

Reuters | Two weeks after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp seized IndyMac Bancorp Inc , the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said it closed First National Bank of Nevada and First Heritage Bank NA of California.

Google Video | How much of your own food do you produce?

Kurt Nimmo | Democrats over at the Huffington Post see neocons, call them conservatives.

Iowa Politics | The four maintained that they were acting within the guidelines of Iowa Code that obligate private citizens to make such an arrest if they believe a felony has been committed.

Kurt Nimmo | Now that the election is a mere four months away and it appears the neocons will attack Iran, it is worthwhile to revisit a Massachusetts congress critter’s warning.

Steve Watson | The story of the “Unimpeachment” hearing.

Infowars | Video cameras containing important footage taken from car on July 26 in New York.

YouTube | Hours of video coverage taken from C-Span.

Kurt Nimmo | Bob Barr says the constitutional clock is ticking. In fact, it stopped ticking some time ago.

Ebookers.com | Aussie airline boss predicts a global airline and a “new world order.”

YouTube | Rep. Kucinich takes phones call on C-Span’s Washington Journal, July 25, 2008.

YouTube | Bruce Fein’s opening statements during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the constitutional limits of executive power.

YouTube | Vincent Bugliosi’s opening statements during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the constitutional limits of executive power.