Michael Kelly was an embedded war correspondent and a hawk. He died in a vehicle accident in Iraq, on April 4, 2003. In his last published column, (NY Post, 03/26/03), he praised the Pentagon’s War Plan. Only an Albert Camus-like writer could do justice to the enormous horror that is the misnomer labeled, “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” Kelly’s unfortunate death, like that of the old, but dead, Iraqi warrior that he met on the bridge over the Euphrates River, put a human face on it. And, here is the greatest tragedy of all: None of this had to be!

FAIR reviews the mainstream media accounts of the killing of Iraqi civilians by U.S. military personnel.

Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood comments on the United States war on Iraq and its consequences.

The Christian Right and House Majority Leader, Rep. Tom DeLay, have a lot in common besides their extreme right wing politics. For example, they both love Ariel Sharon’s Israel. On April 2, 2003, DeLay bragged about a Washington-based conference, that was being held that night, to solidify the clique’s support for Israel’s regime and the U.S. war with Iraq. DeLay called Sharonland (triple gasp) an “indispensable ally and brother in democracy, religious freedom and human rights.”

Democratic Senator John Kerry claims we need some regime change at home. He says that only a new President could repair all of the damage that the Bush administration has done.

How many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilisation. A commentary by Arundhati Roy on the U.S./U.K. war on Iraq.

In several books, Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel have developed an approach for an economic alternative to capitalism called "participatory economy." In this article, Tom Wetzel discusses "parecon" through the lens of class struggle.

Immanuel Wallerstein argues that the goal of the Bush administration is not to save capitalism, but to replace it with some other system. U.S. hawks believe that the U.S. world policy pursued from Nixon to Clinton is unviable today. They wish to substitute for it in the short run a policy of premeditated interventionism by the U.S. military.