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According to World Bank President's Robert Zoellick.

Ahead of the G8 summit,  taking place in Japan from July 7 to July 9, he is making an urgent appeal for G8 leaders and major oil producers " To act now to address the man made catastrophe" caused by soaring food and oil prices.

In a letter, to Japan's Prime Minister Fukuda and all the others G8 leaders, sent on July 1st,  Zoellick warned that : " We are entering a danger zone". Further he added that " the crisis has worsened since April."

 Today, British newspaper's The Guardian revealed that the World Bank had ( since April) an internal secret report pointing at biofuel as the major cause for the global food crisis.

According to the World Bank secret report, biofuels ( specially corn) have made  global food prices rise by 75 %. The figure contradicts ( what a surprise!) the Bush Administration's claims that biofuel contribute for less than 3 % of food price increases.

As we all know, Senator Obama owns his victory over Senator Clinton during the primaries to the left of the Democratic party;  AKA  the Progressive  Democrats.

They have they outlets in the form of the Daily Kos, Moveon.org, Code Pink etc, and a very specific agenda.

The core element of this political agenda is to end the war in Iraq. It is also to keep pushing for an impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, even so the timing of it would be ludicrous considering that the  Bush Administration is.....out of time.

 It is likely, at least according to Seymour Hersh from the New-Yorker magazine.

In his article, to be published the 7th of July, Hersh explains how the Bush Administration is in the process of stepping up its operations against Iran.

The covert operations have being going on for sometime, but last year the US  Congress agreed to a request from the Bush Administration to fund covert operations in Iran for an amount of 400 million dollars.

Today the US Army released a 720 pages official report based on interviews with more than 200 senior Army officers involved in the invasion of Iraq. The main conclusion,  in the Army's report, says its senior leaders failed to properly plan for the aftermath of the 2003 invasion.

It is an honest attempt to expose the mistakes that were made. Retired General Scales says the report is very candid and calls it a " chronicle of  failure".

The numbers are in, the month of June 2008  had  the biggest decline of the US stock market, in a month, since 1930. Are we heading for a crash in the only  sector of the US economy that was still quite healthy, even a few months ago? The Dow Jones has fallen 460 points in the last two sessions and reached its lowest point since September 2006.

A few factors are at play here to create a " perfect storm " for a bad situation to get even worse...a lot worse.

After a hiatus of 69 years, the Supreme Court has ruled today on the meaning of the 2nd Amendment in the highly anticipated case of District of Columbia v. Heller. Not since 1939 has the Supreme Court heard a case testing the 2nd Amendment scope.

This is the ultimate question here: Does the 2nd Amendment guarantee an individual right to have a gun for private use, or does it only guarantee a collective right to have guns in an organized military force such as a state National Guard unit?

 Today the US Department of Justice released its report after an investigation of allegations of politicized hiring in the Department of Justice Honor program and summer law intern program ( SLIP).

The findings are once again damaging for the Bush administration and show, one more time, a pattern of favoring people sharing the same political and ideological  views as opposed to hiring public servants  based on competence and merit .

This is one of the conclusion  of the report:

Yesterday, the Pew Research center released its comprehensive 2008's Global Attitudes Project.

Beside a global economic gloom in the forecast, with China and India as notable exceptions, the report noted some positive changes for the perception of the US abroad.

Five years after the start of the war in Iraq, the image of the US remains far less positive than it was before the war. However, the latest survey finds some encouraging signs for America's global image for the 1st time this decade.

Today the US Supreme Court voted ( 5 to 4 ) to grant terrorism suspects held since 6 years , in Guantanamo Bay without  specific charges or trial, access to  Federal Courts in accordance to Habeas Corpus.

Justice Kennedy was the swing vote on the court.

Of course the conservatives on the Court ( Including the two Pres. Bush's nominees, Justice Roberts and Alito)were dissent votes on the case.

Senator McCain's reaction to the vote was very much in line with the one of  the Bush Administration.