News of note

A new report by the prestigious Centre for Strategic and International Studies, written by Dr. Anthony Cordesman, paints a grim picture in Iraq. The Iraqi resistance reportedly has a war chest of up to $1billion, with an additional $3 billion stashed in Syria, and attacks on Americans by Sunni Iraqis will continue "until the day the US leaves." Cordesman concludes that US troops are dying because of the ideological approach of the Bush administration, stating that "four years into office, the Bush national security team is not a team".

Italy has all but shut down as some 250,000 people crowd around the Basilica of St. Paul to mourn the soldiers killed in Iraq. Why can't our government muster a commemoration even half as grand to honor our 400+ war dead?

Hi-tech protesters are chasing Bush across London.

George W. Bush is the "greatest threat to life on this planet that we've most probably ever seen," says the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone.

Falling short of legalizing gay marriage, Massachusetts has overturned the ban on same-sex unions.

The spoof website What Brand Are You? backfires--or succeeds spectacularly--as users of the site have trademarked 20 of the names, generated by an advertising agency to poke fun at the banal business of corporate naming.

Microsoft is going down the path paved by Google News: they've launched their own auto-generated news site, Newsbot.