Obituary for Beltran Navarro, a local Latino/a rights activist.

Jeremy Brecher discusses the prospects for a global peace movement. Brecher argues that such a movement "needs to present the US with a consistent, unified, and principled opposition to the Bush policy of dictation and aggression" and express it in "nonviolent sanctions that show US elites and people that a policy of global domination comes with an unacceptable cost to them." Such sanctions can take economic, diplomatic and legal forms, "imposed both by governments and by people acting in civil society."

Edward Said discusses the condition of Arab nations after the United States war on Iraq. Said argues that the Arab people face a systematic attack on their future by U.S. imperialism acting in concert with Israel, to pacify, subdue, and reduce Arab nations "to a bunch of warring fiefdoms whose first loyalty is not to their people but to the great superpower (and its local surrogate)...."

Rashid Khalidi, author of "Rethinking the United States in the Middle East", critically discusses the latest U.S. plan for resolution of the conflict between the Israeli government and the Palestinians.

“Weasel hails pariah Arafat,” blared a grossly offensive headline, in the NY Post, 05/25/03. Ariel Sharon’s Gang was indignant about France’s foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, scheduling a meeting with the PLO’s Yasser Arafat. Oh, what short memories these arrogant Zionists have! The records shows that virtually all Israeli combat aircraft in the Six-Day War (June, 1967) had been French. And, that French planes and pilots even flew air cover for Israel in the Suez War in 1956. Today, the ungrateful Zionists are demonizing Catholic France. Could America be next?

The United Nations security council has recognised the occupation of Iraq approving its re-colonization by the US and Britain. This as more than 1,000 multinational corporations gathered in London to seek opportunity to plunder Iraq. Tariq Ali, author of "Bush in Babylon: Re-colonising Iraq", asks what happened to the recent rhetoric of Europe versus America?

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has outlined a "road map" to resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, it may never reach the conclusion of its first phase. Adam Hanieh and Catherine Cook analyze the response so far of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Palestinians providing background on previous plans and the ongoing conflict.

Naomi Klein notes that "Jessica Lynch and Rachel Corrie could have passed for sisters....Lynch, the soldier, was born in Palestine, W.Va....Corrie, the activist, died in Israeli-occupied Palestine." Klein's commentary looks at how the media and the military distorted the two stories making Private Lynch appear more heroic and Corrie and her fellow ISM activists appear sinister.