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November 22, 2005 - Posted by R. Neal Bush announced his nominations to the newly expanded TVA board of directors. See if you can spot the spin in the Knoxville News Sentinel's report (registration required):

November 22, 2005 - Posted by R. Neal As a follow up to some of the torture related news posted here in the last couple of days, here's a handy guide to help sort out some of the technical terms: Enhanced interrogation techniques: Torture Dietary manipulation: Torture by starvation

November 21, 2005 - A follow-up to our earlier post about fake CIA airline companies in NC and TN that are used to shuttle terror suspects to torture-friendly countries: Jason Vest, a contributor to Southern Exposure, has

November 21, 2005 - Last week was a national week of action targeting Wal-Mart, led by the 400-member coalition Wal-Mart Watch. Thousands of events probing the worker, human rights, environmental and other problems of the Arkansas retail giant were held across the week, including screenings of Robert Greenwald's new documentary, "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price."

November 21, 2005 - This weekend, about 100 protesters descended on the sleepy North Carolina town of Smithfield -- a place that looks sleepy, but which plays a big role in one of the more unseemly sides of U.S. foreign policy.

November 20, 2005 - It's been almost four years since Facing South/Institute reporter Jordan Green first wrote about Halliburton's questionable no-bid defense contracts in the "War on Terror." A writer at the NY Times later admitted to me that Jordan was the first journalist

November 19, 2005 - Are you one of those sports fans who thinks that the pros are going downhill, overtaken by overpaid, thankless brutes?