View front page articles all submitted articles All articles are submitted by smart activists like you. Go here to contribute:  08-07-2005 Sunday August 7, 2005 Comments NCAA bans the use of American Indian mascots and logos by sports teams during postseason NCAA tournaments, but during the regular season it's perfectly ok. United States | San Francisco Chronicle [0] Congressional Recess Action Guide United States | Moving Ideas Network [0] "Incite hatred" in Britain and you can be thrown in jail for three months without being charged -- that is, if you're not just deported. United Kingdom | Christian Science Monitor [0] FCC rules that telephone companies no longer have to open up their DSL networks to competition. United States | internetnews.com [0] The largest German newspaper publisher is buying the country's largest television broadcasting group. Germany | New York Times [0] X Games: no girls allowed? United States | Women's eNews [0] Two former employees of a pro-Israel lobbying group charged with spying Israel | Seattle Times [0] Chevron pays Nigerian soldiers $109.25 a day for guarding Chevron oil rigs, attacking two villages, killing four people, and setting fire to homes. Nigeria | San Francisco Chronicle [0] Saturday August 6, 2005 Comments Saturday is the 60 year anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. This article uncovers writing on the true effects of the bomb and calls for a New York Times writer, then on the gov't payroll, to have his Pulitzer revoked. Japan | Common Dreams [0] I'll trade you my Detroit newspaper and a Florida paper for three of your papers in Idaho and Washington. United States | Mercury News [0] Justice Dept allows Sprint and Nextel to merge because consumers, "will continue to have a number of other carriers from which to choose." That number is 3. United States | Seattle Times [0] Police in Ohio have helped cover up sex-abuse in the church for the past 50 years. United States | Toledo Blade [0] Rice creates new post to "accelerate the demise" of the Castro regime in Cuba. Cuba | BBC News [0] Wal-Mart trying to weasel out of a gender discrimination lawsuit because it would "be too big". If they win it means the practical end of class action lawsuits. United States | Los Angeles Times [0] ABC TV barred from Russia after the network broadcasts an interview with a Chechen leader Russian Federation | AsiaMedia [0] Peace Corp = Military United States | San Francisco Chronicle [0] Friday August 5, 2005 Comments Bush is off to a five week vacation in Texas, where he's already spent 20% of his presidency. United States | Washington Post [0] America Coming Together falling apart United States | Washington Post [0] Iraqi general was stuffed into a sleeping bag, wrapped in electrical cord, and beaten, "It was inside the sleeping bag that the 56-year-old detainee took his last breath through broken ribs." Iraq | Washington Post [0] After the incident in Connecticut, Alabama enacts law saying that a government cannot seize property for the purpose of turning it over to retail, industrial, office, or residential developers. United States | Washington Times [0] Silenced FBI whistleblower heard Turkish officials boasting of giving "tens of thousands of dollars in surreptious payments" to House Speaker Dennis Hastert in exchange for political favors. United States | Corporate Crime Reporter [0] State Department warns Americans about traveling overseas. After all, they might accidentally see media that doesn't push Bush's propaganda. United States | Washington Post [0] Pentagon poised to resume production of antipersonnel landmines. United States | Reuters AlertNet [0] A comprehensive look at what has become one of the most important political controversies in recent times: the Plame/Rove scandal. United States | Democracy Now! [0] Thursday August 4, 2005 Comments Robert Novak was going to be asked about the CIA leak case on CNN, that is if he hadn't gotten all pissed and stormed off the set. (With video :) United States | Media Matters for America [0] Don't believe the hype, the US is not getting out of Iraq. But it is kinda convenient for you to think so with the the Congressional elections coming up and all. Iraq | TomPaine.com [0] Japanese PM trying to privatize Japan Post (the postal service and world's biggest savings bank). If he doesn't get his way, then everybody's up for reelection on Monday! Japan | Bloomberg [0] Astronauts seeing widespread environmental destruction on Earth, "The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so very thin." Global | CNN [0] 130 people dead and 350 wounded in Sudan after the death of former rebel leader and First Vice President Sudan | CNN [0] Dog cloned Korea, Republic Of | Zaman Online [0] Mauritania's government overthrown by the military! Ok, I've never heard of Mauritania either but apparently they are one of Israel's few allies. Mauritania | Aljazeera [0] Scientists able to implant fake memories to help people lose weight. In other news, Bush is God, Bush is God, Bush is God, Bush is God, Bush is God, Bush is God, Bush is God, Bush is God, Bush is God, Bush is God, Bush is God. United States | Wichita Eagle [0] Deciphering the death of the Saudi King, "The country is caught between two choices: progressive reform or continuing paralysis and decay." Saudi Arabia | TomPaine.com [0] Drug companies agree to new guidelines for consumer drug ads, as long as they are weak and unenforceable. United States | USA Today [0]