Text of speech of presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich at the June 5 2003 Take Back America Conference. Audio file is available at Pacifica's Peace Watch -- http://www.pacifica.org/programs/peacewatch/030626_peacewatch.html .

A review of the propaganda the Bush adminstration put out to gain support for its war against Iraq. Christopher Scheer contrasts the lies with the facts.

Ralph Nader spoke at a rally of more than 1,200 at Johns Hopkins University on June 26. Nader encouraged civic activism to resist the increasing concentration of economic and political power in the USA. The event, sponsored by Democracy Rising and the Student Labor Action Committee brought together more than 50 activist groups who tabled and networked.

Edward Said writes of his meeting with Rachel Corrie's parents, Corrie's courage and dignity, the dignity of the Palestinian resistance, and the need for solidarity.

This year is the 140th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg. The American people should answer these questions: Is this the kind of Republic you really want? Is the national interest being served by our present domestic and foreign policy? Can you have a government of, by, and for the people, when the “Military-Industrial Complex,” “Big Oil,” and the crafty CIA spooks, are manipulating institutions to their own ends? America remember your “honored dead” at Gettysburg. Get involved in electoral politics. Take our country back from the globalists before it is too late!

In These Times discusses with investigative journalist Greg Palast questions of democracy and media. Interview by Aaron Sarver.

In the weeks leading up to the war on Iraq, TV screens across America were crowded with images of U.S. soldiers readying for upcoming battles with a crazed dictator who would stop at nothing. One clip after another showed U.S. soldiers racing to don $211 suits designed to protect them from the chemical and biological attacks they would surely suffer on the road to ousting Saddam Hussein. Frida Berrigan reports.

Bush is a coward. I am the one who took his place in Vietnam, so I should know. The latest from Liberty Underground