Demonstrators against Bush's drive for war against Iraq have mobilized quickly, but face very high hurdles. Jo Freeman, author of "At Berkeley in the Sixties" (forthcoming), comments, emphasizing the need "to organize more than marches and stay on the case long after Saddam Hussein is removed, no matter what [the U.S.] does next."

The Bush Administration is harshly criticized at the World Economic Forum for its Iraq policies and role in the world. Alan Freeman reports.

Pentagon Papers analyst Daniel Ellsberg addresses questions on the current situation: What is Iraq's threat to the U.S.? What are the Bush Administration's objectives? Interview with the German newspapers Metall (Germany Metalworkers Union newspaper) and Freitag.

David Horowitz, an Internet spieler, and Zev Chafets, a NY Daily News ranter, have harshly smeared the emerging Peace Movement. They are also Ariel Sharon sympathizers (a/k/a "Sharon-symps"). This connection is no accident in explaining their hatchet jobs on a noble national grass roots movement, that is attempting to stop a U.S. led war on Iraq.

As the United States prepares for war against Iraq--another battalion, one more set of aircraft carriers and cruisers, an ever-increasing number of aircraft, new contingents of officers and soldiers transferred to the Gulf--Edward Said urges an Arab alternative to the wreckage that is about to engulf our world.

On January 22, the U.S. celebrated the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling establishing a woman's right to make private, personal choices about abortion and childbirth. Yet 30 years later, activists and providers are still on the defensive, protecting "choice" while sidestepping shrinking public support. Eleanor Bader reports.

After a hundred and twenty years of socialist and nationalist revolts, does the World Social Forum represent a qualitatively new alignment of forces and strategies for change? World systems analyst Immanuel Wallerstein comments with strategic considerations.

U.S. Threatens North Korea as It Prepares Conquest of Iraq.