Harold Pinter comments on the irrationality of the United States's drive to control the world's oil resources, and UK Prime Minister Blair's support of the Bush policy.

In Baltimore County, supremacist groups seek to recruit. Racist pamphlets have been distributed in Essex announcing a meeting set in Rosedale. Laura Barnhardt reports.

Carlo Giuliani died on the streets of Genoa during last year's G8 demonstrations. Now his story has been told in one of a string of films inspired by the three days of protests. Dave Calhoun discusses Francesca Comencini's film "Carlo Giuliani, Ragazzo" and Roberto Torelli's "Bella Ciao."

Bush's dictatorial powers of arrest and imprisonment are part of an unprecedented expansion of militarized state power into every aspect of American life and secrecy surrounding government activity. Chris Floyd argues that the U.S. is moving from a democratic republic to a military autocracy.

The U.S. isn't just losing the fight against terrorism--it is fuelling it across the globe. "Phase one" of its war on terror, Afghnaistan, has failed, yet the U.S. prepares to launch "phase two": its long-planned invasion and occupation of Iraq. Seumas Milne comments.

The silence of the media and politicians on the deterioration of the liberties we fight to protect gives Attorney General Ashcroft encouragement to pursue his plans, based in the USA Patriot Act. Related New York Governor George Pataki introduced the Statewide Public Security Tips Hot Line. Nat Hentoff comments.

Sept. 8, Flight 91 was ready to take off from Newark, N.J., for Dubai, United Arab Emirates with a final destination of Kabul, Afghanistan, when agents of the F.B.I. boarded. The agents escorted 7 passengers off the plane and into a room where they were interrogated for 6 hours. The group, part of a tour organized by San Francisco-based Global Exchange to visit Afghanistan, missed their plane. A.C. Thompson reports.

The United States is marching toward war with Iraq. The Bush administration has articulated its reasons for war, but has produced no official
estimates of the costs of such a war. Yale University economist William Nordhaus offers an analysis.