What is the current situation of the US war on Iraq. Christian Parenti reports from Baghdad of the progress of a disaster where US occupying troops have little understanding of Iraqi culture and politics.

Question: Have the cumulative effects of the following: Israel’s murderous attack, in 1967, on the USS Liberty, its 2003 killing of Rachel Corrie, its extraction, since 1948, of hundreds of billions of dollars from our treasury, its oppression of the Palestinian people, its creating more enemies for America in the Islamic World, and its manipulating President George W. Bush into the Iraq War, finally begun to stir anti-Zionist resentment in America’s hinterlands? Columnist Ralph Peters thinks so.

Harry Magdoff, author of "The Age of Imperialism" and " Imperialism: From the Colonial Age to the Present," discusses capitalism, imperialism, the United States, and Iraq. Magdoff was interviewed by Huck Gutman as part of the conference "Imperialism Today" held at University of Vermont in Magdoff's honor.

Vicente Navarro, author of "The Politics of Health Policy," discusses the inadequate state of health care in the United States. The essay is based on an address at Johns Hopkins University.

UK's former environment minister Michael Meacher sparks a furor over claims that the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US became a pretext for the US to expand its global hegemony.

Former UK environment mionister Michael Meacher argues that the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US World Trade Center and the Pentagon became a pretext for the US to expand its imperialist reach.

A federal appeals court issued a surprise order today blocking the Federal Communications Commission from imposing new rules that would make it easier for the nation's largest media conglomerates to add new markets and areas of business.

Hollywood’s stereotyping of African-Americans, Arabs, and Islam, too, has an even longer and uglier history (See for the details on its degrading portrayal of Arabs, Jack Shaheen’s groundbreaking “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People”). But, here’s the question: Where were the “Tolerance Brigade” from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in LA, and Abe Foxman, when all of those Christian, African-American and Arab bashing flicks were being put out by Hollywood? Huh?