In the United States, as in Australia, it seems there is no stopping our lying national leaders as they steamroll over hard-won democratic rights and core democratic principals. As far as America's mainstream press and broadcast media are concerned, the bigger the scandal concerning the Bush administration, the less they care to investigate.

If only President Bush had had casual sex with a White House intern!

As the infamous Downing Street Memo exposing pre-war planning gains traction in what passes as news reporting in the U.S. mass media, calls for the impeachment of America's Liar-in-Chief are increasing in volume... from a whisper to a squeak. But the propsect is there...

First we take Washington, then we take Canberra and the Australian Prime Mendicant, John W Howard.

A startled young Brazilian is shot dead - 8 times! - after being chased by gun-waving strangers who are, in fact, undercover police.

In Iraq, Afghanistan, the USA and around the world, innocent "terrorist suspects" are being harassed, imprisoned without trial, tortured, and killed, all in the sacred cause of George W Bush and co's reckless, phoney "war on terror".

We are all on his hit list.

Canadian experts warned Wednesday
of the devastating economic fallout
of a long-overdue flu outbreak.