Guest guest Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 " t r u t h o u t " <messenger Pentagon Spying on Americans in US and Abroad Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:59:01 -0800 Pentagon spying on Americans; Bush meets strong backlash over spying; Evo Morales wins in Bolivia; Diebold voting machines in question; India decides not to share seismic data with neighbors wanting to set up tsunami warning system; and more ... Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org Join fellow bloggers at the t r u t h o u t Town Meeting. Get perspective on today's important issues from TO's editorial team and prominent guest bloggers. Join the debate! http://forum.truthout.org/blog t r u t h o u t | 12.19 Pentagon Spying on Americans in US and Abroad http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121905I.shtml Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, is a three-year-old agency whose size and budget remain secret. It has grown from an agency that coordinated policy and oversaw the counterintelligence activities of units within the military services and Pentagon agencies to an analytic and operational organization with nine directorates and ever-widening authority. Congress Pushes Back, Hard, against Bush http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121905J.shtml From a standoff over the Patriot Act to pushback from Capitol Hill on the treatment of detainees, secret prisons abroad, and government eavesdropping at home, tensions between the Bush White House and the Republican-controlled Congress have never been more exposed. Evo Morales Elected Bolivian President in Landslide Victory http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121905K.shtml According to exit polls, socialist Evo Morales received 51 percent of the votes in Bolivia's December 18th presidential election, enough to secure his victory. Right-wing candidate Jorge Quiroga admitted defeat with 32 percent of the votes. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Big Brother Bush: President Steps toward Police State http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121905L.shtml Without a serious leap of imagination, particularly with the list of those under surveillance not available to anyone outside the NSA and the Pentagon, it is also possible to project that political critics of the Bush administration could end up among those being tracked. The idea that all of this is being done to us in the name of national security doesn't wash; that is the language of a police state. New York Times | The Business of Voting http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121905M.shtml Diebold has always insisted that its electronic voting machines are so reliable that there is no need for paper records of votes that can be independently verified. Fortunately, the American people feel otherwise. J. Sri Raman | When " Security " Looms Larger Than Tsunami http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121905N.shtml Come December 26, it will be a year since the unforgettable tsunami disaster that hit India and ten other countries of the region. On the eve of the anniversary, India's rulers have announced their resolve not to share seismic data with other countries in order to facilitate the installation of a tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean. If Cambodia Can Learn to Sing Again http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121905O.shtml It seems fitting that Arn Chorn-Pond should take on the inordinately ambitious goal of trying to rescue Cambodia's nearly extinct traditional music. After all, it was the music that rescued him. William Rivers Pitt: Radical Militant Librarians and Other Dire Threats http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121905Z.shtml William Rivers Pitt writes: In my opinion, we need to fight, resist, refuse to subsidize Washington in every way, and we must immediately begin impeachment proceedings against this president, not only because he has clearly earned impeachment, but in order to revive a national awareness of the intent of the Founding Fathers to circumscribe centralized state power, and their vision of a free and peaceful Republic. VIDEO SPECIAL | Dahr Jamail: Reporting on Iraq A Film By Sari Gelzer http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm Dahr Jamail shares the stories of Iraqi civilians he interviewed while spending 8 months in occupied Iraq as an independent journalist. Through his reports of torture, and of a healthcare system that is being impeded by American troops, Dahr reveals the urgency for withdrawal from Iraq. Red State Road Trip: A 60-Minute Documentary http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm How could America have given George W. Bush a second term? Filmmaker Chris Hume decided to find out by embarking on a 6,000-mile, cross-country journey in search of America's soul. The result: a fascinating, hilarious, and often disturbing road-trip adventure. Welcome to t r u t h o u t video podcasting. What is video podcasting? By using iTunes you will be able to to our podcasts, and when we post a new video your iTunes will automatically download it and have it ready to play the next time you launch your iTunes studio. For those with the latest iPods that support video you can load our video content onto your iPod as well and view it anytime. Video podcasting is the latest advancement from Apple Computers, but you can enjoy it from a Windows PC as well. Just go to http://www.apple.com/iTunes/download/ and download iTunes 6. 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