Fred Lucas | Among the controversies surrounding Sotomayor is a comment she made during a speech at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law in October 2001.

Guardian | US and Russian warships took up positions in the Black Sea today in a risky war of nerves on opposing sides of the Georgia conflict.

Guardian | The surge in new cases means that the overall incidence of the disease is increasing by 3.9% a year, with the steepest increase coming in very young children.

Times Online | US and South Korean forces raised their military alert level today, a day after North Korea renounced the 55-year-old truce on the peninsula and threatened war if its ships are searched for weapons of mass destruction.

McClatchy | The White House has asked Congress for — and seems likely to receive — $736 million to build a new U.S. embassy in Islamabad, along with permanent housing for U.S. government civilians and new office space in the Pakistani capital.

10 News | County employee notified the couple that the small bible study, with an average of 15 people attending, was in violation of county regulations

Telegraph | Photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.

Chris Horner | Nancy Pelosi let a certain nasty little kitten out of the bag with “Every aspect of our lives must be subject to inventory” in the fight against Man-made global warming.

Infowars | Violent cops are now attacking EMT workers taking people to the hospital.

Kurt Nimmo | Sonia Sotomayor has an extensive track record revealing her hostility toward the Second Amendment.

BBC | Though primates that make a glowing protein have been created before, these are the first to keep the change in their bloodlines.

Paul Joseph Watson | After years of corporate media whitewashing Abu Ghraib abuse in the context of college fraternity-style humiliation, truth about rape and sexual torture of women and children finally being reported.

Bob Chapman | Inflation is running much higher than is believed.

Mail Online | U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned the country over its ‘provocative and belligerent’ threats.

Kurt Nimmo | Is it possible the FBI arrested the same caliber of “terrorists” in Chicago as they did in New York?

You Tube | Alex Jones discusses his appearance in IFC’s “New World Order” while driving around spreading the word via a megaphone mounted on top of a car.

Yahoo Finance | As the FDIC has had to step in to take over more and more insolvent banks, the fund has dwindled to dangerously low levels. At the same time, the number of problem banks continues to grow at a rapid pace.

AFP | US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Wednesday she now knows 9/11 terrorists did not enter the United States from Canada, seeking to bury controversy over a diplomatic gaffe.

Online Journal | The first time Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld pressured the CIA to mislead Congress was in 1975 and 1976, when Cheney was chief of staff to President Gerald Ford and Rumsfeld was Ford’s secretary of defense.

Jurriaan Maessen | In a series of pamphlets constructed in the latter days of the German occupation of Europe, H.R. Nord, one of the founders of the European Parliament, wrote that all European countries should prepare to construct a ‘European Federation’ as a first step in the direction of a world government.

Fox News | The U.S. military is developing easy-to-use, highly powerful hacking tools for GIs to use in case of a cyberwar, reports the Web site of Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine.

CTV | Canada and the U.S. signed an agreement Monday designed to increase border security by allowing the RCMP and the U.S. Coast Guard to team up and ride in each others’ vessels during border patrols.

Andrew G. Marshall | The main topic of discussion at this years meeting was the global financial crisis, which is no surprise, considering the list of conference attendees includes many of the primary architects of the crisis, as well as those poised to “solve” it.

Washington Post | Washington policymakers are taking a fresh look at a money-making idea long considered politically taboo: a national sales tax.

Infowars | Reports indicate that North Korea is threatening to attack U.S. warships.

USA Today | Federal tax revenue plunged $138 billion, or 34%, in April vs. a year ago — the biggest April drop since 1981.

WTOL 11 | The first round of Toledo police layoffs, in which 75 officers were let go, may already be having an affect on gun ownership.

USA Today | As more consumers struggle with bills, their credit scores are paying a price.

OpEd News | Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld are the key co-conspirators in the 9/11 cover up and all will soon have their day in court when the appalling truth of America’s most treasonous act is laid bare for the world to see ~ If Obama allows it to happen.

Paul Joseph Watson | 1953 peace deal renounced by North Korea.

Press TV | A human rights group has confirmed that the United States used disproportionate force in its recent raids in Afghanistan and killed 97 civilians to get at two Taliban militants.

New York Times | Obama’s proposal for a new legal system in which terrorism suspects could be held in “prolonged detention” inside the United States without trial would be a departure from the way this country sees itself.

Telegraph | Gen. George Casey said the world remained “dangerous and unpredictable”, and the Pentagon must plan for extended US combat and stability operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan that could deploy 50,000 US military personnel for a decade.

Reuters | Russia is taking security measures as a precaution against the possibility tension over North Korea could escalate into nuclear war.

Kurt Nimmo | U.S. further antagonizes a bellicose North Korea, deemed part of an “Axis of Evil” by the neocons.

Paul Joseph Watson | Kevin Trudeau personally spoke with Bilderberg members who brazenly advocated mass culling of human population.

Infowars | Alex talks with Kevin Trudeau, the infomercial marketer ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $37 million for violating a 2004 stipulated order by allegedly misrepresenting the content of his book, The Weight Loss Cure ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About.

Google Video | The 1981 TV special ‘The Wave’ is based on an experiment known as ‘The Third Wave’ undertaken by history teacher Ron Jones to demonstrate the appeal of fascism with sophomore high school students as part of a study of Nazi Germany

Wayne Madsen | The fear is that once a vaccination against AH1N1 is started, the virus will re-assort itself into a hybrid H1N1/H5N1 strain or mutate into a new H5N1 strain.

Bruce Falconer | Think Liev Schreiber in The Manchurian Candidate.

Dean Baker | The Fed bears primary responsibility for the economic collapse.

Al Jazeera | Thousands of civilians trapped in Pakistan’s Swat valley, where the military is battling Taliban forces, face a “humanitarian catastrophe” unless help reaches them soon, a rights group has said.

Mail Online | A growing army of private security guards and town hall snoopers with sweeping police-style powers is being quietly established

Ynet | Outgoing commander of 7th Armored Brigade says despite threats from Hamas and Hizbullah, IDF training for possibility of conflict with standard army, such as Syria’s.

Ron Paul | The current administration has reversed its position on releasing evidence of torture by the previous administration and we must ask why.

Asia Times Online | North Korea shook the world – literally – in the early hours of May 25, carrying out its second nuclear test, at a site in the northeast of the country.

CNSNews | Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told a group of reporters at the National Press Club that he wants to “coerce people out of their cars.”

Sherwood Ross | America’s humanist Left may yet muster its forces for a last-ditch fight to preserve a bit of sanity in this epoch of messianic presidents hell-bent upon waging war.

Los Angeles Times | The wristbands use the same technology as electronic toll booths, security key cards and the newest U.S. passports.

NY Daily News | The mother of Bronx terror suspect David Williams said the government snitch who cozied up to her son promised him a liver transplant for his dying brother.