Opponents of the Bush administration's stealth attempt to deny millions of workers overtime pay and a 40-hour work week believe there is still a chance to stop the Labor Department's pro-business rewrite of federal work-time regulations first passed 65 years ago. David Moberg reports.

Last April, the Children's Defense Fund reported that more than 1 million African-American children live in "deep poverty," in households with incomes less than half the U.S. government's already inadequate poverty level. Paul Street reports. Includes discussion of educator Henri Giroux's "The Abandonned Generation."

The Bush administration claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and this was reason for war. The US media knew the WMD were there. Seth Ackerman asks, but where are they?

US jets killed Iraqi troops with firebombs--similar to the napalm used in the Vietnam War--in March and April as Marines battled toward Baghdad. The explosions created massive fireballs. James Crawley reports.

The CONVERGENCE of environmental, social and economic justice elements in mountaintop removal provided common ground among the forest protection and coal activist communities.

US military casualties from the occupation of Iraq have been more than twice the number most Americans have been led to believe because of a high number of accidents, suicides and other non-combat deaths that have gone largely unreported in the media. The total number of US deaths from all causes is 112. The other unreported cost of the war for the US is the number of American wounded, 827. Julian Borger reports.

To revive the faltering economy, the Bush administration has resurrected Reagan's discredited supply-side economics. The theory is that the wealthy will reinvest their lavish tax cuts, thereby both pulling the national economy out of its stall and filling government coffers. A healthier, more egalitarian alternative, A.K. Gupta argues, is to invest in public works on a large scale.

US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz claims that Al-Jazeera television was "inciting violence" and "endangering the lives of American troops" in Iraq. The station's Baghdad bureau chief has replied to the Bush administration, complaining that in the past month the station's offices and staff in Iraq "have been subject to strafing by gunfire, death threats, confiscation of news material, and multiple detentions and arrests, all carried out by US soldiers...." Robert Fisk reports.