Round up...

Proposing Plan C: Report on the Third U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions --The Community Solution

Energy Depletion & the US Descent into Fascism (PDF) --Mountain Sentinel (Dale Allen Pfeiffer)

Against An Imperial Internet --TomPaine.com (Bill Moyers and Scott Fogdall)

Academia Signs Up to Track Dissent --Truth Out

"...A regime openly committed to wielding arbitrary power over the life and liberty of every person on earth is now equipping itself with intrusive technology beyond the wildest dreams of the most totalitarian states in history. And some of the nation's most respected educational institutions - proud bastions of civilization and enlightenment - are helping them do it..."

Web could be terror training camp: Chertoff --Reuters

"Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Monday..."

Former ISI head says U.S. assisted in Pakistani coup --United Press International

Dark Days Ahead --Truth Out

"...three years after a devastating blackout left 50 million people in the dark in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada for nearly three days, and forced the closure of the New York Stock Exchange, nothing substantial has been done to overhaul the country's dilapidated power grid..."

Bush opposes three-way partition of Iraq --Agence France-Presse (This could become the Democrats' platform in 2008. It appears pulling out won't even be considered.)

Bush's Petro-Cartal Almost Has Iraq's Oil --AlterNet

First Bush-appointed election chair say 'no standards' for e-voting devices, system 'ripe for stealing elections' --Brad Blog

Rep. Doolittle Paid Lawyer Thousands in Connection to Abramoff Investigation --Associated Press