Ariel Sharon's re-election bid to the post of Israel's Prime Minister is in doubt. His horrific human rights record isn't the reason that he has fallen out of favor. It's a controversial $1.5 million loan to his campaign, that has also implicated his twon sons, Omri and Gilad Sharon, in electoral wrongdoing.

Green Party member Matt Gonzalez is elected as president of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors. Democratic Party leaders are shocked. Rachel Gordon reports.

The attacks caused disruption for satellite and space companies across the USA. Someone was using some HIGHLY classified frequencies. Despite the U.S. spending millions to defend satellites from its own high-powered laser weapons, many of these computers in orbit still obey commands without authenticating their source.

As humans concerned with the future of human rights in a democratic republic, it's vital that we now speak up, spread the word, and encourage the ACLU and other pro-democracy groups to help Marc Kasky in his battle on our species' collective behalf.

Police pullover family, arrest them, shoot their dog, and laugh about it. One problem, NO CRIME WAS COMMITTED! There are many harrowing experiences in this world, and one of them definitely is getting shoved around by a cop and arrested for no apparent reason, and then watching the cop shoot your dog in front of your kid, and laugh about it! This type police abuse of power and unproffesionalism is an outrage. I urge everyone who reads this to email, write, fax,or call the contacts at the end of the transmission and let them know exactly how utterly unacceptable this is. Use the most outraged voice and/or tone you can muster to let them know exactly what you think.

Ken O'Keefe is leading the volunteer mission of peace activists who will be acting as human shields in Iraq. In 1991 he was a member of the United States Marine Corps and he went to Iraq as a soldier to fight the Gulf War. This interview was conducted by Isin Elicin on NTV (Turkish 24 hour television).

Dispatch from East Jerusalem, for No One Is Illegal, on the January 5th double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Jaggi Singh reports that at least six of those killed and a significant proportion of the injured were foreign workers.

The decade between the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg has seen the considerable failure of the Rio Earth Summit and its Agenda 21 to produce meaningful results. John Bellamy Foster discusses the weaknesses global environmental summitry.