While historians here debate whether George W. Bush has been the worst president in U.S. history, a global consensus that he inspires the least confidence of all the world's major leaders appears to have emerged. An average of two out of three respondents in 20 nations whose combined population make up 60 percent of the world's population said they either had "no" or "not too much confidence" in Bush "to do the right thing regarding world affairs", by far the highest negative rating of eight leaders featured in a new survey released here Monday by WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO).



George W. Bush Has `Gotten Away With Murder’
Vincent Bugliosi

Former California prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wants President Bush charged with murder. Bugliosi ... who in the early 1970s successfully prosecuted Charles Manson for the murder of Sharon Tate and six others ... lays out his case against Bush in The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. "My motivation for writing this book is simple - to bring about justice," Bugliosi says in a video posted on the book’s web site. Video runtime: 3:55 mins.



US Politicians Are Obliged to Agree With Israel, Says Jimmy Carter
YouTube.com

Interview excerpt. Video runtime: 34 seconds



Hitler, Owens and the 1936 Olympics Myth
Rick Shenkman

Everyone knows that at the 1936 Olympics Hitler snubbed Jesse Owens. As the story goes, after Owens won one gold medal, Hitler, incensed, stormed out of Olympic Stadium so he wouldn't have to congratulate Owens on his victory ... Several other misconceptions about the 1936 Olympics are prevalent. Not only was Owens not rebuffed by Hitler, Owens wasn't shunned by the German audience at the Berlin stadium either ... It is forgotten that Germany managed to pick up more medals than all the other countries combined.



Jesse Owens, Man and Myth at the 1936 Olympics
Peter Ephross -- Forward (New York)

Hitler’s snub of sprinter Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is well known: Unwilling to recognize a black runner’s prowess, the story goes, Hitler refused to acknowledge Owens after the American athlete won the 100-meter dash. Indeed, Owens himself repeatedly recounted the incident late in his life. There’s only one problem: The story is most likely apocryphal. As sports journalist Jeremy Schaap points out in his vividly written "Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics," American newspaper accounts filed by onsite journalists reported that Owens and Hitler exchanged waves after Owens won the 100-meter dash.



Documents Undercut Pentagon's Denial of Routine Abuse
Tom Lasseter - McClatchy Newspapers

Although Defense Department officials deny that detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or in other American camps were routinely mistreated, official statements and court testimony undercut the claim. FBI agents witnessed mistreatment at Guantanamo, according to accounts gathered for a Justice Department report released May 20, 2008. One agent reported seeing detainees in interrogation rooms "chained hand and foot in a fetal position on the floor ... Most times they had urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18, 24 hours or more."