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Been watching or reading the news lately? You might see a phony news story planted by the Pentagon and not know it. For an organization that’s supposed to be defending the Constitution, the U.S. military has a profound contempt for press freedom. Planting propaganda in the media is part of what the military calls “psychological operations.” The difference between psychological operations and conventional warfare is that in psychological ops, the target isn’t the enemy—it’s YOU.

Californians are trying to get out from under the long-term energy contracts they signed, at premium prices, during the energy crisis. They say the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) stood by while they were getting screwed in the deregulated energy economy. Only the most cynical observers think that the Bush Administration looked the other way in return for millions of dollars in campaign contributions from Enron and other corporate sharks.