Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff will announce wide-ranging changes to the nation's embattled disaster-response agency on the heels of a House report blaming government-wide ineptitude for mishandling Hurricane Katrina relief.-AP

Polls indicate that the Bush administration is succeeding in whipping up fear and hysteria about Iran. The secretary of defense is promising Americans decades-long war. Is death in battle Bush's solution to the job depression? Will Asians finance a decades-long war for a bankrupt country?-Paul Craig Roberts

Brazil will build an air-to-air missile with South Africa and buy nine used F-5 jet fighters from Saudi Arabia, a leading newspaper reported Sunday, citing military sources.-TerraDaily.com

The more than 18-hour delay in news emerging that the Vice President of the United States had shot a man, sending him to an intensive care unit with his wounds, grew even more curious late Sunday. E&P has learned that the official confirmation of the shooting came about only after a local reporter in Corpus Christi, Texas, received a tip from the owner of the property where the shooting occurred and called Vice President Cheney's office for confirmation.-Editor and Publisher

A major American attack on Iran's nuclear sites would kill up to 10,000 people and lead to war in the Middle East, a report says today.-UK Telegraph

A United Nations' inquiry will call for the immediate closure of the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees. The U.N. Human Rights Commission report, to be published this week, concludes that Washington should put the 520 detainees on trial or release them -Telegraph UK

The Venezuelan government has given a Christian missionary group from the US until Sunday to leave the country.President Hugo Chavez has repeatedly called for the expulsion of the New Tribes Mission, saying they are American imperialists.He has called them spies of the CIA and colonialists -BBC

In a rare move, the rebel leader, Prachanda, spoke out about the conflict that has claimed some 13,000 lives - and the possible exile or execution of Nepal's King Gyanendra.It was difficult to believe that the man sitting modestly in the corner was Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known under his nom-de-guerre of Prachanda ("The Fierce One") -BBC

I've been resting much more peacefully since George Bush pontificated at the National Guard Memorial Building a few days ago and revealed that our terrorist enemies are too stupid to breathe. That means, of course, that they're also too stupid to bomb the daylights out of us. Hence, my sounder sleep -Becky Akers/LewRockwell.com

Sometimes it’s the small abuses scurrying below radar that reveal how profoundly the Bush administration has changed America in the name of national security. Buried within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 is a regulation that bars most public access to birth and death certificates for 70 to 100 years -In These Times

What is rather ironic is the fact that Kenneth Lay wasn't just buying the favors of the Bush administration, he also tossed more than $100,000 to Gray Davis who ends up getting recalled over the whole mess and replaced by a morally bankrupt pig named Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger is dangerous, he's completely inept and California needs him gone as soon as possible(internal link to Part 2) -Devvy Kidd/NewsWithViews

A controversial Kuwait-based construction firm accused of exploiting employees and coercing low-paid laborers to work in war-town Iraq is now building the new $592-million U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Once completed, the compound will likely be the biggest, most fortified diplomatic compound in the world -CorpWatch

This administration is always after power and control; and, in their pursuit, sacrificing governance is never a problem, hardly even a consideration. Our unfettered commander-in-chief presidency desires only to be ever less fettered -- with its own hand-picked operatives ever more in positions of command in the Washington bureaucracy. It need not be capable of actually governing.What follows, then, is the third installment in an unending series we've been calling the Fallen Legion -Nick Turse/TomDispatch.com

Now I have heard everything. Well, almost everything.Apparently some Congressmen, finally realizing that being a nation depends upon acting like one, have proposed building a wall along America's southern border, to staunch the influx of illegal-immigrant invaders from Mexico. Immediately came forth Mexico's Presidente Vincente Fox, declaring that he would not "permit" such a project to go forward -Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D./NewsWithViews

A blistering report by House investigators said Chertoff was "confused" about Brown's role and authority, and that it was unclear why he chose him, given his lack of skills and his hostility to FEMA's downgrading under new plans.-Truthout.org

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas.-KIROTV.com

"This is not the Soviet Union. Let's not overstate the case," Rice said.-AP