As US and UK forces move toward Baghdad, The Independent's Robert Fisk reports on the appearance of Iraq's military preparedness.

We can see the movie already. Private Lynch played by Jennifer Love Hewitt, in a camouflage demi bra. Just imagine the screenplay.

Bush and the rest claim to be waging war "to liberate the Iraqi people." But what they are doing is not new--and it has nothing to do with liberation.

The United Nations General Assembly is hovering on the edge of calling an emergency session to challenge the US attack on Iraq. While US opposition has been fierce, the General Assembly provides a crucial opportunity for the global peace movement. Comments by Jeremy Brecher, author of "Globalization from Below."

NBC TV News fired veteran reporter Peter Arnett when he reported to Iraqi television that "The US war timetable has fallen by the wayside." Arnett, now with the British newspaper the Daily Mirror, comments on the war, and his firing.

The multinational corporation Halliburton seeks contracts to rebuild Iraq when the U.S. war on Iraq is completed. Frida Berrigan reports on its connections to the Bush administration, and the effort of Maxime Waters in Congress to restrict such links.

Aijaz Ahmad analyzes the mechanics of the outrage, the objectives and strategies of the military build-up, and the likely consequences of the U.S. and British war on Iraq.

Henry Norr, who writes a technology column for the SF Chronicle, was suspended for an indeterminate period of time following his arrest at an anti-war protest in downtown San Francisco.