Politico | Organizers confronted a plate of unhappy options, wanting to appear in touch and sympathetic while still carrying out their necessary business of officially nominating the party’s presidential candidate.

Ron Paul | Both major parties remain committed to militarism and reckless spending — and inflationism to fund it all.

The Uptake | I can’t believe this happened… it is like a police state.”

Kurt Nimmo | British SAS and American Delta Force collaborate on an Operation Phoenix assassination program in Iraq.

Tyler Paper | “They already have a bracelet with a barcode,” Captain Akin said. “They will walk through the scanner and it automatically loads into the computers. We have a list of where they need to go.”

Associated Press | Hurricane forecasters said the storm still was classified as Category 4 although it was intensifying rapidly. They are predicting it will grow into a Category 5 hurricane by early Sunday.

Telegraph | One in 11 prisoners serving time in UK jails is a former member of the armed forces, a new report reveals.

Glenn Greenwald | Concerted police state campaign to intimidate demonstrators in Minneapolis as the RNC prepares.

YouTube | Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister, tells CNN there is evidence of U.S. military working with George during the invasion of South Ossetia.

Russia Today | Obama says we need change. But when he it comes to Russia, it is more of the same old rhetoric.

Maya Schenwary | On land previously occupied by a slave plantation, Louisiana prisoners pick cotton, earning 4 cents an hour.

Michel Chossudovsky | The Obama-Biden campaign has endorsed the very foundations of the Bush administration’s foreign policy agenda.

Press TV | Tehran says while it is fully committed to dialogue to protect its right to the peaceful application of nuclear technology, it will not accept Western demands.

USG Open Source Center | A strategic alliance presuming the signing of a new large-scale military political treaty with Iran could change the entire geopolitical picture of the contemporary world.

Kurt Nimmo | Sarah Palin is strictly decorative and was selected to sell the neocon product line to the masses.

Infowars | Coming out of Denver, it is time to refocus on other issues, most notably the crisis between the U.S. and Russia.

Mike Whitney | The former Soviet Union provides a model of what the neoliberals would like to create.

George Washington’s Blog | The military-industrial complex is trying to find another enemy sufficiently scary to justify trillions of dollars in defense spending and the continuation of the perpetual state of war.

AFP | “If my guess is right, then it raises the suspicion that someone in the US specially created this conflict to worsen the situation and create an advantage in the competitive struggle for one of the candidates for the post of president of the United States,” said Putin.

Baltimore Sun | Aid workers in Georgia afraid they will be targeted.

Associated Press | Personal incomes plunged in July while consumer spending slowed significantly as the impact of billions of dollars in government rebate checks began to wane.

| Afshin Rattansi talks to State Duma Deputy in Moscow about McCain’s ties to Georgia, Obama’s defeat after a Ukranian Civil War or another George W Bush war –against Iran, and before the U.S. Presidential Elections.

Press TV | Vidal said that the United States has never had democracy and the word never was used in the US constitution, Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence.

The UpTake | A trio of journalists who have a track record of documenting police abuse at political conventions were stopped and searched during the early morning hours in Minneapolis.

Kareem Abed Zair | Amid soaring temperatures, Baghdad’s Water Authority says three million people in Baghdad have no access to running water.

Raw Story | Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has declined to endorse either John McCain or Barack Obama.

Press TV | “I will rebuild our military to meet future conflicts. But I will also renew the tough, direct diplomacy that can prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and curb Russian aggression,” Obama declared.

Infowars | Holland’s largest newspaper, Telegraaf, reports that a decision has been made by the United States to attack Iran in the next few weeks.

American News Project | Short documentary on the police and protesters in Denver on Tuesday, August 26, 2008.

New York Times | Bankrupt cities mull giving away the farm to JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, and the Carlyle Group.

Infowars | Matthews calls 9/11 truth activists “screwballs,” says they believe Bush blew up WTC with a plunger.

Infowars | Message gets out as corporate shills fawn over Obama.

RIA Novosti | “Despite the apparent strength, the NATO naval group in the Black Sea is not battle-worthy. If necessary, a single missile salvo from the Moskva missile cruiser and two or three missile boats would be enough to annihilate the entire group.”

Tom Burghardt | Just in time for a new administration (and the bundles of cash always at the ready for the expanding homeland security market), comes a complete “surveillance in a box” system called the Intelligence Platform!

James Petras | The FT’s embrace of the CIA and military’s coerced evidence and therefore their use of torture, puts them squarely in the camp of the totalitarian state.

David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster | Organizers estimate 50,000 protesters are getting ready to demonstrate outside the RNC, in the largest anti-war protest planned so far this year.

YouTube | Veteran issues presented to Obama campaign.

Paul Joseph Watson | Depth of evidence presented in brand new 9/11 truth film buries official story for good.

Richard Myers | In the streets of Denver, we have witnessed the systematic criminalization of any ideology that is not mainstream.

YouTube | We didn’t need to see Condi’s excessively arrogant face or hear her lame answer anyway.

London Telegraph | Fears are mounting that Russia may restrict oil deliveries to Western Europe over coming days, in response to the threat of EU sanctions and Nato naval actions in the Black Sea.

Russia Today | Passport of Texan named Michael Lee White found in South Ossetia.

Kurt Nimmo | Jason Bermas’ latest documentary details the intelligence aspects behind the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Infowars | Interview with Malkin associates proves Alex did not call for the murder of the neocon.

Infowars | Four new Fabled Enemies trailers.

YouTube | Ron Paul interview from CNN Cable TV. August 28. 2008.

This Is London | Moscow has issued an extraordinary warning to the West that military assistance to Georgia for use against South Ossetia or Abkhazia would be viewed as a “declaration of war” by Russia.

Infowars | Strange white plane that appeared in the skies on the morning of September 11, 2001.

Infowars | Barry Jennings explains what happened at WTC 7.

Wayne Madsen | The convergence of Soros and the Obama campaign on one side and Scheunemann and the McCain campaign on the other illustrates the lack of difference between the Democrats and Republicans when it comes to revanchist Cold War politics.