Michel Chossudovsky | For several years now, senior officials of the Bush administration have intimated that there will be “a Second 9/11″.

| Jong says that her friends Jane Fonda and Naomi Wolf are extremely worried that Obama will be sabotaged by Republican dirty tricks.

Boston.com | Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz of Columbia University told the U.N. General Assembly that “this is a global crisis and it requires a global response.”

Think Progress | “We don’t call it a security pact but an agreement to withdraw the troops and organize their activities during the period of their presence in Iraq,” al-Maliki was quoted as saying.

Think Progress | Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) faced Anchorage mayor and Senate candidate Mark Begich in their last debate before Tuesday’s election.

Reuters | The risk of international conflict will increase in the next two decades as China, India and Russia become major powers and competition for resources grows.

LewRockwell.com | Even as the Bush presidency wears down, the Global War on Terror only expands. Perhaps the word should be “metastasizes.”

Press TV | Congressman Ron Paul has criticized the election system in the US, saying that the system is not very democratic for third parties.

Connie Talk | In the state of Montana, Ron Paul is on the ballot as a third-party candidate under the Constitution Party. Supporters say Paul could draw as much as 8 to 10 percent of the vote there. It’s a wild card…and we love it!

You Tube | We Are Change in Toronto challenged former Prime Minister Paul Martin on ‘signing Canada’s death warrant’ in his endorsement of the 2005 SPP agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

You Tube | Peter Dale Scott and former Democratic Party Congressman Dan Hamburg discuss “COG” – Continuity of Government plans by the George Walker Bush administration, and previous administrations.

TVNewsLies.org | For some reason people still cite Snopes to me as “proof” that I am wrong about one thing or another, as if they were a know-all god that can not tell a lie. Well, when it comes to 9/11, Snopes.com is a false and very outdated god.

Raw Story | Eid declined to prosecute the three men on charges of threatening to assassinate Obama, saying that the suspects were “just a bunch of meth heads” and their words failed to meet the legal standard for “true threat.”

WSWS | At the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Defense Secretary Gates argued that Washington should expand the doctrine of pre-emptive war formulated by the Bush administration to include possible nuclear strikes.

Uruknet | Colombia’s government, the Bush administration’s top ally in Latin America, has been buffeted by the disappearance of …dozens of young, impoverished men and women whose cases have come to light in recent weeks.

Washington Post | The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Army Gen. Raymond Odierno, said there is a 20 percent to 30 percent chance that the U.S. and Iraq won’t reach a deal to allow U.S. troops to operate in Iraq past Dec. 31.

CBS 2 Chicago | It’s called Project Shield and will cost you more than $40 million when it’s done, leaving U.S. taxpayers footing the bill for a countywide high-tech surveillance program.

AFP | The CIA had “full knowledge” of the deadly Colombian raid March 1 on a FARC rebel camp inside Ecuador that led to a rupture in ties between Bogota and Quito.

New York Observer | Instead of the normal flat-screen version of talking heads, the Obama spokesperson’s image will be projected from Chicago and into the New York studio — in a 360 view.

David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster | “I am not expecting the troops, regardless of whether Obama wins, to be home in 16 months. That is just pure political talk.”

Cryptogon | I had always assumed the entire business of the markets to be a massive criminal enterprise that allowed public participation simply because it made a few people extremely wealthy.

Paul Joseph Watson | Return of Emmanuel Goldstein required to make Americans fear their own shadow again.

Infowars | City installs “talking cameras,” ostensibly to ward off taggers and people who dump trash.

| “It’s our position that the Constitution didn’t get suspended when the Republican National Convention came to town,” said one of the attorneys.

Christopher Manion | Professor Hanson would appreciate it if all those “defeatists,” “navel-gazers,” “traitors,” “anti-Semites,” and “radical leftists” who opposed his little war would just not mention it any more.

Agence France-Presse | The US economy contracted in the third quarter as panicked consumers slashed spending.

Iain Thomson | The Australian government’s plans to censor all web content at the borders of the country looks in danger of coming unstuck.

PRNewswire | Just 5 days before the election, at 3a.m. on October 30th, all of the front windows of the Cindy Sheehan for Congress campaign offices were shattered.

Asia Times Online | As the US public is dimly aware, things are not going very well in Afghanistan.

You Tube | Ron Paul on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow, Oct. 29, 2008.

| A JP Morgan Chase executive said about the bail-out: It has nothing to do with extending lending to the U.S. economy, but is concerned with the Mussolini-like corporatist restructuring of the U.S. banking system.

BBC | At least 15 people have been arrested and two police officers injured in clashes in Copenhagen in Denmark.

Paul Joseph Watson | EXCLUSIVE: Shocking proposal urges military leaders to attack major foreign power.

New York Times | How a laboratory where scientists plan to study viruses like Ebola and Marburg ended up on a barrier island where hurricanes regularly wreak havoc puzzles some environmentalists and community leaders.

EurActiv | The European Commission will roll out a range of initiatives in the coming months to promote the Internet of the Future.

America’s Right | Philadelphia attorney Philip Berg will be at the United States Supreme Court at 3:15 p.m. today to file a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the Obama case.

NBC News | Countrywide employees may be involved high level corruption with public officials.

Kurt Nimmo | If Obama is elected next week, the Democrats may attempt to reimpose the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters.

BBC | While secret policemen and government officials hovered nearby, everyone gave the same version of events: Al-Qaeda was never here; there was no gun battle; this was an American war crime.

Register | Recently the American media has begun to notice the odd incongruity of coverage which insists that global warming is both man-made and urgent, and a British public which increasingly doubts either to be true.

Paul Joseph Watson | Cossiga says Italian government should “do what I did” under Operation GLADIO — infiltrate protest groups with agent provocateurs.

Associated Press | Reports surfaced that bankers might use the money to buy other banks, pay dividends, give employees a raise and executives a bonus, or just sit on it.

Alan Stang | I honestly believe that were we to strap your eyeballs to Zbigniew’s prose, you would run screaming from the premises, unless we had prudently tied you to a chair.

Boston Globe | Congressional investigators demanded State Street Corp., Citigroup Inc., and seven other banks justify billions of dollars in pay and bonuses after they accepted $125 billion as part of a taxpayer-funded bailout.

YouTube | “We are being pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed… one day will be the last draw.”

You Tube | From the Channel 7 Morning Show 29th. October 29 2008. Discussion regarding mandatory Internet Filtering proposal.

Grain | Today’s food and financial crises have, in tandem, triggered a new global land grab.

BBC | The BBC has discovered evidence that Georgia may have committed war crimes in its attack on its breakaway region of South Ossetia in August.

Wall Street Journal | One of the great unappreciated stories of the past eight years is how thoroughly Senate Democrats thwarted efforts by President Bush to appoint judges to the lower federal courts.

We Are Change L.A. | Naomi Wolf defended the right to ask questions about 9/11, highlighting the failures of the commission and hinting at questions of her own.