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LOVE IN ACTION CO-FOUNDER: "MY MINISTRY SHATTERS LIVES"
by Wayne Besen
CO-FOUNDER OF MINISTRY THAT RUNS TEEN ’EX-GAY’ BOOT CAMP SAYS GROUP SHATTERS LIVES AND CAN CAUSE SUICIDE
Love In Action Co-Founder John Evans Unveils Powerful Letter Rebuking ’Ex-Gay’ Ministries
NEW YORK - Author Wayne Besen released an explosive letter today by Love In Action’s co-Founder and former ex-gay John Evans, which rebukes gay conversion groups saying that they "shattered lives". The group he started has (…)

Extraordinary admission to interrogators by London bomb suspect
By Francis Elliott and Sophie Goodchild in London and John Phillips in Rome
A suspected member of the 21 July bomb cell has told investigators he was motivated by the Iraq war, not religion
Osman Hussain, suspected of attempting to blow up commuters in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, has given an extraordinary account of a plot hatched in a basement gym in Notting Hill, according to leaks from his interrogation by Italian (…)

Karl Rove on Welfare
by Ralph Nader Remember the day after the election last November, a triumphant newly elected (for the first time) President George W. Bush introduced to a national television audience a beaming Karl Rove as "The Architect" of his winning campaign. Did you know that you, the taxpayers, paid for his salary and benefits while he was running George W. Bush’s political campaign day after day inside the White House?
Isn’t this illegal, you may properly ask? It would be (…)

The U.S. Congress Sends Mixed Message On Indonesian Military
by Brian McAfee
The U.S. Senate voted against giving the human rights abuses countering the House’s vote to reinstate funding and training for the Indonesian military.
President George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice had been pushing for a full restoration of all military ties to Indonesia because of the ongoing terrorist threat but the persistence of human rights abuses and the corrupt nature of the Indonesian military and (…)

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072905B.shtml
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1387
Dramatic New Charges Deepen Link between Ohio’s "Coingate," Voinovich Mob Connections, and the Theft of the 2004 Election By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman The Columbus Free Press
Friday 29 July 2005
Columbus - New charges filed against Ohio Governor Bob Taft’s former top aide have blazed a new trail between "Coingate" and the GOP theft of the 2004 (…)

By William Fisher
As some Latin American analysts complain that Washington has declared "electronic war" on Venezuela with a plan to target the country for special radio and television broadcasts, it remains uncertain whether the project will ever get off the ground.
If approved by a joint congressional committee, the broadcasts would be financed by the U.S. government and implemented through the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the quasi-independent corporation established to (…)

Senate Approves Bill Protecting Gun Businesses
By CARL HULSE
WASHINGTON, July 29 - The Senate agreed to shield gun manufacturers and dealers from liability lawsuits on Friday, as Congress broke for a monthlong recess after sending President Bush energy and transportation bills that had been years in the making.
Long sought by the gun lobby, the Senate measure - approved 65 to 31 - would prohibit lawsuits against gun makers and distributors for misuse of their products during the (…)

Vatican in terror dispute with Israel
John Hooper in Rome and Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
Pope Benedict XVI was yesterday immersed in the first big diplomatic crisis of his papacy after the Vatican issued an unusually blunt statement criticising Israel for its response to Palestinian attacks.
The Vatican’s stinging rebuke came after Israel demanded to know why the Pope did not refer to a Palestinian suicide bombing in remarks he made on Sunday condemning terrorist attacks in London and (…)

Federal Judge Says Patriot Act Too Vague
By LINDA DEUTSCH
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ruled that some provisions of the U.S. Patriot Act dealing with foreign terrorist organizations remain too vague to be understood by a person of average intelligence and are therefore unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins found that Congress failed to remedy all the problems she defined in a 2004 ruling that struck down key provisions of the act. Her decision was handed down (…)

By Deborah James
At 12:03 a.m. on July 28, the House of Representatives approved CAFTA, the Central America-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement.
The bill, which would expand NAFTA to Central America and the Dominican Republic, would devastate farmers, privatize essential public services, and accelerate the race to the bottom on wages in the U.S. and all over Central America.
At the end of the allotted 15 minutes of voting time, the count was 180 to 175 against CAFTA, (…)