Top-level document written during the Clinton administration found confirming OIL WAR is perceived as legitimate US Defense Department policy.

Baltimore landlords allegedly evicted tenants for allowing lead-poisoning tests in rental properties. The Association for Community Reform Now (ACORN) tested for and found lead in 83 of 157 houses in the Park Heights area. Ericka Blount Danois reports.

The UK's Tony Blair is accused of lying to Parliament and the British people over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and his claims that the threat posed by Iraq justified war. While leaders of the Labour Party question the UK's executive, citizens in the United States may wonder where are the Democrats to challenge Bush about misleading Congress and the American people?

Amira Hass compares the facts on the ground in the Palestinian territories with the response of Israel's Ariel Sharon to the "road map" to peace offered by the United States. Instead of a Palestinian state emerging from this process, Hass sees a Bantustan.

"The city Board of Estimates approved yesterday the planned purchase of 46 acres in West Baltimore for $20 to allow the replacement of a decaying, subsidized housing complex with a mixed-income community."

Maryland nuns could face 30-year term for anti-nuclear Plowshares protest.

The motto for the whole Democratic Party: "Vote for us -- we kinda, sorta disagree." The Party leaders are so timid, spineless, and lacking in confidence that to compare them to jellyfish would be an insult to invertebrates.

After water in wells near Ft. Detrick tested toxic, cleanup crews went digging into the fort's former waste dump. The 2,000 tons of hazardous waste they uncovered contained not just the toxic chemicals they'd expected, but also vials of live bacteria, including anthrax.