While diplomats and generals debate what should be done if Iraq has acquired weapons of mass destruction, a website run by a tiny Virginia nonprofit is giving ordinary citizens a glimpse of what may be Saddam Hussein's biological, chemical and nuclear arms-making facilities.

By publishing its analysis of commercial satellite pictures, GlobalSecurity.org is doing more than educating the Internet-going public. The group is beginning, in minute ways, to affect the moves of world players as well.

An interesting article at Wired about the non-profit GlobalSecurity.org.  A good quote:

"The volume and granularity of information is so much greater in the hands of government decision makers that it induces a sense of arrogance," he said. "The great unwashed don't know what's going on and don't have to be consulted. Well, now we all know what we're talking about."

"The Pentagon is preparing to consolidate control of most of the global war on terrorism under the U.S. Special Operations Command, according to government sources, signaling an intensified but more covert approach to the next phase in the battle against al Qaeda and other international terrorist groups."

Its good to see that at least some of the Pentagon has some idea of how to fight a 4th Generation opponent. 

"Kelly Clarkson has a golden future, right? Maybe so. But the "American Idol" winner and her fellow finalists had to sign virtually their entire careers away to the show's producers for one shot at stardom."

A great article on Salon by Eric Olsen, editor of Blogcritics, on the future indentured servitude of the American Idol crowd.  A good example of current music industry tactics taken to extremes. 

""Glasgow's Sunday Herald draws attention to 'a secret blueprint for US global domination' written in the run-up to the 2000 election by the Project for A New American Century, a right-wing think-tank chaired by the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol. "

Some interesting discussion on Plastic including some good links to related articles.