...Disrespect ~ Interview with Suzanne Gordon, author and journalist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris

They don’t know about sickness, death, or old age not so much because they have never been exposed to it, but more because they have become detached from the side of reality that is icky.

...Poor Nations Exacerbate Poverty ~ Interview with Bill Fletcher, president of Trans Africa Forum, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris

The full 48 minute debate between San Francisco radio journalist Jeffrey Blankfort and USF Prof. Stephen Zunes on the role of the Israel Lobby in shaping American politics, originally broadcast in two parts on KPFA on June 1st and 8th, can now be heard or downloaded by going to

http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=12876

It has been awhile, gentle readers, but the ANWR issue was generating some traffic, so in the interests of elucidation, we left it up for a bit. But now on with the woe: Bush has a press conference. Well, that is going to be a load. The filibuster biz is over, if only for a short while and Priscilla Owen is immediately confirmed. While all this senatorial wrangling goes on, the Amazon burns, the Senate will spend more Chinese money to build roads while constructing some import barriers against that country's vast production capacity. Good news, we didn't flush!

The U.S. Special Operations Command will spend up to a half-billion dollars over the next five years to develop pre-packaged media products for distribution to foreign news organizations and audiences, according to government planning documents obtained by IMC-Binghamton.

Investigative jounalist Seymour Hersh reports that the 10 inquiries into prisoner abuse have let Bush administration off the hook as having responsibility for the military prison abuse at Abu Ghraib.

Approximately 100,000 veterans in the US and approximately 4,000 in allied countries that served in Operation Desert Storm have subsequently presented with a variety of ailments, but the most common complaints have been the appearance of a collection of chronic symptoms that do not fit easily with any known syndrome. This condition has been called Gulf War Illness or Desert Storm Syndrome, and its origin and cause(s) have remained ellusive. Read on...