Newly discovered documents show that Britain is responsible for creating one of the chemical weapons factories that the US is so upset about...

Perry Anderson, editor of New Left Review, comments on the criticisms from within mainstream opinion of the Bush Administration's drive for war on Iraq , and the responses of the U.S. government to them. He then offers an alternative perspective.

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With the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, U.S. citizens for the first time felt vulnerable. The shocking dimension of the attack brought sympathy from around the world. According to Immanuel Wallerstein, the Bush administration has, in a 18 months, squandered that sympathy, isolating the U.S. internationally.

Tariq Ali, author of The Clash of Fundamentalisms, comments on the U.S., the United Nations, and the Iraq crisis. Ali argues that "The world has changed so much over the last 20 years that the UN--the current deadlock notwithstanding--has become an anachronism, a permanent fig leaf for new imperial adventures." What happens the next few weeks will be telling.

Local, state, and international unions representating 13 million workers have passed resolutions against U.S. military intervention in Iraq. Steve Early, labor journalist and a staffperson of the Communication Workers of America, comments on the increasing participation of union members in the anti-war protests.

Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members.