saturday reads

Preznit bu$h says he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to an exclusive interview with ABC News Friday.


Robert Fisk: Semantics can't mask Bush's chicanery


Preznit bu$h vowed to veto any supplemental war funding bill exceeding his $108 billion request for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A Haight-Ashbury soup kitchen that served as many as 450 people a day for a quarter-century closed Friday, a casualty of dwindling federal grants and donation money.


Preznit bu$'s job approval rating has dropped to 28%, the lowest of his administration.

for Holden:


Whole Heap of Little Horses
Kristin Hersh
Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight (1998)

friday reads

Rocketing global food prices are causing acute problems of hunger and malnutrition in poor countries and have put back the fight against poverty by seven years, the World Bank said yesterday.


Juan Cole on a military dictatorship achieved not by coup but by moral laziness.


Black Ops on Green Groups


Check out the Eldorado Roundup at Grits for Breakfast.


The Austin City Council yesterday approved the naming of the highest point of the new park near Lady Bird Lake. Doug Sahm Hill

thursday reads

Chris Floyd - Capital Crimes: Another Smoking Gun on Terror War Torture


An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein and ordered him released nearly two years after he was detained by the U.S. military.


Mugabe's thugs launch campaign of violence and intimidation against MDC supporters.


The Serious Fraud Office's decision to drop its investigation of BAE is overturned by the High Court.


John Pilger: Honouring The 'Unbreakable Promise'


How to derail 'imperial mobilization'


QOTD: Jon Stewart

It’s all sort of ironic, when you think about it. When you fly, you are inspected quite thoroughly. Whereas the plane itself is perhaps occasionally vacuumed. See, with this administration, if a passenger blows up a plane, it’s a failure on the War on Terror. But if a plane just blows up on its own, eh, that’s the market self-regulating.

Fiction Rules: Bible Tops List Of America’s Favorite Books


USDA recalls 406,000 pounds of cattle heads