Items of potential interest

In reading today's Christian Science Monitor, an article introduced an news site Watching America. This site provides English translations of international reports of news about the U.S. It looks like a valuable resource and I have added it to the "quick links."

Mathew Maavak has an interesting article by Barry Chamish on new crackdowns and activities inside Israel which you may find worth reading.

If you want to get frustrated, then read Data Shows Faster-Rising Death Toll Among Iraqi Civilians. They are keep track of civilian death tolls from suicide attacks and bombs, but the neither the U.S. military or the Iraqi government are releasing information on civilians killed through their actions.