Investigative journalist Greg Palast takes off from the power outage in northeast US to discuss the history of deregulation in the energy industry.

Peace activists country-wide combine commemorations of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with protests against the Bush administration's proposal to develop new, low-yield nuclear weapons. (With quote from Max Obuszewski, media outreach coordinator for AFSC in Baltimore.)

On Aug. 10, 2003, “The Baltimore Sun,” the only daily in town, published an unsigned editorial (I’m not making this up) entitled, “Sharon’s Peacemaking.” It labeled the architect of the 1982 serial bombing of Beirut, Lebanon; the 1982 Sabra and Shatila Massacres; and of the IDF’s rampage at Jenin, in 2001, “a willing warrior and reluctant peacemaker!”

Dean's subversion of the constitution through his judicial appointment policies. Dean's general constitutional ignorance.

Resolving the conflict between legal concepts based on market values and those based on the non-market values of human rights is crucial to future world order. And the law is not equipped to deal with non-market values. Mireille Delmas-Marty reports.

Ignacio Ramonet provides an overview on the increasing surveillance and data collection activity on private citizens by government.

The US policy of mass incarceration (with access to inept medical care but without access to information, prophylactics or disinfectants) has led to a steep increase in the number of prisoners with communicable diseases. Megan Comfort reports.

In 2000, ?Hawkish Joe? Lieberman (D-CT) was flying high above the political horizons. Today, he?s running behind the Anti-Washington candidacy of Howard Dean, the former Governor of Vermont. In the early primary polls, Lieberman, an unrepentant warmonger, is doing poorly with the rank and file Democrats. This is called, ?Pay Back Time!?