"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine." - - - William Blum

August 29, 2005

Monday Bits

MP George Galloway, who undressed U.S. Senators in a hearing about Iraq pre-war intelligence failures a few months back, will be on a speaking tour of the U.S. shortly, terminating with the Sept. 24 anti-war rally in Washington DC.

Juan Cole summarizes the current reactions in Iraq to the faulty process of releasing the unfinished draft constitution to public referendum. The Sunnis have been excluded from the final amendment process, setting the stage for a bloody revolt.

Paul Krugman explains how Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is partly to blame for the pending real estate market collapse and 2006 recession.

The Attorney General of California sued 39 drug companies on Thursday, accusing them of bilking the state of hundreds of millions of dollars by overcharging for medicines.

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