President Bush made his fortune by getting Texas taxpayers to pay for the Texas Rangers's new baseball stadium. His government now expands corporate welfare on the backs of individual taxpayers, while allowing huge tax escapes for large multinational corporations.

Iraqi resistance target agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency. Six killed in suicide bombing with 32 injured. Patrick Cockburn reports.

Tariq Ali, author of "The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity", and Mike O'Brien discuss the aftermath of the US war on Afghanistan.

Noam Chomsky examines the history and dilemmas of the imperialist strategy of the United States.

The talks of the World Trade Organization collapsed in Cancun, Mexico as the Kenyan delegation walked out while anti-global capital activists protested in the streets. World system analyst Immanuel Wallerstein examines the event in the context of the history of the neoliberal offensive.

Justice Breyer, in defending Israel’s arbitrary practice of barring defendants from choosing a lawyer, whom the Israelis suspect might carry “terror instructions” from behind bars, made this dubious statement, “Maybe to have a lawyer not of your choice (is better) than none at all.” In light of the Sixth Amendment’s right of a defendant to the “assistant of counsel for his defense,” in a criminal case, of his or her own choosing, Breyer’s view on this important constitutional issue is truly appalling.

Amira Hass argues that Israeli occupation of the Palestian territories explains the action of Palestinian suicide bombers.

Samir Amin, author of "Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics & Global Disorder", links capital accumulation and social pauperization on a global scale.