online.wsj.com — KABUL—President Hamid Karzai's administration is seeking to limit the role of U.S. and European officials who mentor Afghan anticorruption prosecutors, in moves that Western officials see as the latest attempt to undercut efforts to stamp out the graft that pervades the Afghan government.

online.wsj.com — The Obama administration is set to notify Congress of plans to offer advanced aircraft to Saudi Arabia worth up to $60 billion

cnn.com — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has deployed troops to areas near the Colombian border and says he is reviewing plans for a potential war as tension between the two nations rises.

cnn.com — Israel launched a series of airstrikes in Gaza starting late Friday in response to a rocket assault on Ashkelon earlier in the day.

english.aljazeera.net — The video was filmed in 2001, apparently without Netanyahu's knowledge, during a meeting with Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. It aired on Friday night on Israel's Channel 10, and several translations have been posted online. At one point on the tape, Netanyahu threatens a "broad attack" against the Palestinian Authority.

news.yahoo.com — A Jerusalem planning body on Monday approved a plan to raze 22 Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem to make room for an Israeli tourist center, a decision that could raise tensions in the divided city and deepen the conflict with the Obama administration.

amnesty.ie — The Israeli thugs are at it again!!! 31 May 2010 Amnesty International has called on Israel to launch an immediate, credible and independent investigation into the killing by its armed forces of at least 10 people on boats protesting the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.

msnbc.msn.com — One can't help admiring this new coalition government in Britain. I can not imagine the two polar opposition parties of the US acting like responsible grownups and coming together for the common good of the country. Although there is a vast difference between the Conservative Party of Britain and the GOP party of "cut your nose off to spite your face."

earthblognews.wordpress.com — “Left” vs “Right”, “Liberal” versus “Conservative”. This simple minded paradigm is involuntarily hoisted on Americans by the corporate media while at the same time both parties have sold out the population to the multinational corporations, banks and special interests who run Washington D.C. To think that every American can be divided into one of two simple categories represents a mass delusion concocted and promoted by the media solely for the purpose of distraction and avoidance of discussing real issues that affect all Americans while the country is looted and power is consolidated.