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Mullen: US Military Has Plans to Attack Iran If Needed – Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Admiral Mike Mullen acknowledged Sunday that the US military has developed a plan to attack Iran and its nuclear facilities, although he said such a strike is an undesirable option

Report: July Was Deadliest Month in Iraq Since May 2008 – The Iraqi government is reporting 535 people were killed in the country last month, making it Iraq’s deadliest month since May 2008. The Iraqi government said the dead included 396 civilians, eighty-nine police officers and fifty soldiers

WikiLeaks Volunteer Detained, Questioned over Afghan War Logs – On Thursday, authorities at Newark Liberty International Airport detained and questioned a twenty-seven-year-old WikiLeaks volunteer named Jacob Appelbaum. He was questioned for three hours and had his laptop computer and three cellphones seized

Global Treaty Banning Cluster Bombs Goes into Force – A global treaty banning cluster bombs went into force on Sunday. The Convention on Cluster Munitions prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of the weapon, which is blamed for maiming and killing tens of thousands of civilians. The United States has shunned the treaty even though it is the world’s largest producer of cluster munitions with a stockpile of 800 million submunitions

Greenspan Opposes Keeping Bush’s Tax Cuts on Wealthy – Former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan has come out in favor of letting the Bush administration tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire.

Life Insurance Firms Probed for Defrauding Families of Dead Soldiers – New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to investigate whether life insurance companies, including Prudential and MetLife, are defrauding the families of dead American soldiers and Marines out of their full death benefits

ADL Opposes Plan for Mosque Near Ground Zero – Here in New York, the controversy over plans to build a mosque and Islamic community center two blocks from Ground Zero is intensifying after the Anti-Defamation League came out against the project

FBI File on Howard Zinn Dates to 1949 – The FBI has revealed it began tracking the late historian Howard Zinn in 1949, well before he became a national figure in the civil rights and antiwar movement
– Democracy Now