The new domestic order under the Bush administration. C. Clark Kissinger discusses what has changed since September 11.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a landmark gay-positive decision in Lawrence v. Texas. In a 6-3 vote, the court ruled in favor of the gay petitioners, with a five to four majority supporting them on substantive due process/privacy grounds, and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor writing a concurrence on Equal Protection grounds. Vincent Samar reports.

The Ottobar cancelled a music fundraising event for the International Solidarity Mmovement. This created an angry reaction from activists and others who were looking forward to attending the event with folk singer David Rovics, spoken-word artist Excentrik, and Iron Sheik, a Palestinian-American hip-hop performer. Waris Banks reports.

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-CT), a War Hawk, never misses a chance to give taxpayers’money away, in the billions a dollars each year, to the Tel Aviv regime. Meanwhile, in Connecticut, school children can’t visit historical sites, because of state budget cuts...Without new revenues, states are more than likely to slash their budgets in the area of public services... For this fiscal year, the budget shortfall is in the $80 billion range, with another $75 billion in shortfalls for FY 2004...How long will the American people tolerate Congress putting Israel’s interests before theirs?

Bill Gates is no stranger to the Cato Institute, the prominent libertarian/free-market think tank -- Microsoft's annual donations are acknowledged but undisclosed and its lobbyists are frequent guests at the Institute's conferences and panels. But things are beginning to change...

Chris Lee of Scotland's "Sunday Herald" interviewed democracy activist and third party advocate Ralph Nader in Washington DC. Nader, whose professed goal is to "strengthen and build the democratic process" in the United States, does not rule out another presidential campaign in 2004.

June 26, 2003. Ralph Nader, Green Party candidate for president in 2000, and probable candidate in the 2004 election, showed up in Baltimore today. He began his “People Have the Power” tour on the east side of town, in the working class neighborhood of Dundalk, at the gritty Steelworkers Union Hall, despite the sweltering weather, and showed a lot of enthusiasm in urging his audience to take on the political system.