Samir Amin, author of Accumulation on a World Scale and director of Third World Forum, spoke to V. Sridhar in Hyderabad, where he participated in the Asian Social Forum (ASF). Amin discussed the changes in the nature of imperialism and globalization and its consequences for the countries of the South, articulating an alternative vision for the peoples and countries of the South. He argued that any alternative system must allow each country and society to negotiate the terms on which it engages with the rest of the world.

Speech at the World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Indian writer/activist Arundhati Roy discusses corporate globalization, U.S. imperialism, and resistence to empire.

In the wake of 9/11 the foreign policy of historical revisionism of the Schröder-Fischer government has faced a strategic collapse which uncovered the roots of the conception. They are pointing to an extensive weakness in American post-1945 foreign policy which now can be corrected. In quest of an effective long-term strategy against global terrorism, Iraq could prove to be the prototype of a new post-war order.

On January 25, 2003, warmonger Jonah Goldberg ranted, “France is a liar.” He was raging at France for daring to seek peace, and not war, over the Iraqi controversy. He was also upset with French leaders for attempting to lift the genocidal sanctions against Iraq. Goldberg’s mean-spirited spiel was also a cleverly disguised piece of pro-Zionist propaganda (a/k/a “ZionProp”). In an earlier piece, he had suggested the U.S. “bomb Canada," because he didn’t like its politics. After an uproar, Goldberg insisted he was only kidding about his smart aleck remark, but I noticed that nobody is laughing about it.

For decades a class war against America's working people has been waged by big business and hard-right conservatives. They have been united on a campaign to shift income from poor and working people to the wealthy. David Moberg reports on the latest installment--Bush's new tax plan.

February 1 more than a thousand of the U.S.'s top military and government leaders will gather in a secretive tribal rite called the 103rd Annual Wallow of the Military Order of the Carabao. In the past, guests have included Secretary of State Colin Powell, General Richard Myers, current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and James Schlesinger, the Nixon-era CIA director and Secretary of Defense. Ian Urbana reports.

United Nations inspector Hans Blix praises cooperation but raises concerns on chemicals and anthrax. The Guardian offers a detailed assessment asking chemical, biological, and nuclear experts of the specific allegations contained in the Blix report to the Security Council.

The world is living in a state of terror. The real cause of this planetary panic is called the Market--a faceless all-powerful all-present terrorist acting as god, thinking it's eternal. Eduardo Galeano comments on this capitalist institution and its effects around the world.