Our guests for Monday, June 12, will be Randy Tarkington, Campaign Director for Vote NO on 1 (Because marriage equality matters) and Milan Rai, a London-based writer whose most recent book is the just-released “7/7: The London Bombings, Islam and the Iraq War.” Milan is also a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness UK, which has been campaigning against US/UK policy towards Iraq since the mid-nineties, and Justice Not Vengeance, which campaigns for a peaceful resolution of international conflicts.

Ticket Giveaway!!! Tune in tomorrow to win a pair of tickets to see Bill Maher at the Ryman Auditorium on Saturday, July 8th. But it won’t be your only chance. We’ll be giving away one pair of tickets for the next four weeks.

Must Reads

2006-06-09
Why Democrats Lose by Robert Parry (TomPaine.com)
Liberals have not invested enough in a media message machine that can counter the conservative spinmeisters.

NASA shelves climate satellites by By Beth Daley (Boston Globe)
Maybe they know something we don’t. Maybe it’s already too late and colonizing the moon is our only option!

REPORT: Congress Has Voted More Than 50 Times to Override State Laws
Federalists. Yeah right.

Big Pharma’s Deadly Experiments By Kelly Hearn (AlterNet.org)
Drug companies prey on poor people overseas by using them in tests for new — and often dangerous — meds.

Associate Publisher: Public Interest in News Topics Beyond Control of Mainstream Media By Kenneth F. Bunting (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
When will mainstream media question the 2004 election?

Unreported: The Zarqawi Invitation By Greg Palast (Truthout.org)
Who invited Zarqawi into Iraq, anyway?

2006-06-22
“Power Grab”, by Elizabeth Drew (New York Review of Books)
Fortunately, we have three branches of government for a separation of powers. Oh, wait.

This post was written by Mary Mancini