George Monbiot analyzes recent elections in the United States and UK. He concludes that "a vote for a third political party ... could, far from being wasted, be the most powerful vote you can cast ... arguably the only force which could ... oblige "progressive" politicians to implement progressive policies and enhance the scope of mainstream democratic choice."

City councils in Takoma Park, Berkeley, Calif., Santa Fe, N.M., and several other cities also have passed resolutions opposing unilateral military action in Iraq. Similar resolutions are under discussion in Madison, Wis., and Baltimore.

Ahmed Chalabi, the London-based leader of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), is front man for a long-time neoconservative strategy to redraw the map of the oil-rich Middle East and put American military and American oil companies in full control of the Persian Gulf's reserves enhancing America's global strategic hegemony.

Shalom and Albert address some questions activists encounter while organizing against the Bush administration's plans for war aginst Iraq. This is an earlier version of the article which appears in the November 2002 issue of Z Magazine.

Seattle shop steward Brian King (United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1001) argues that the Labor Party and the Green Party should join forces to challenge politics as usual.

Police exercising new powers to videotape and infiltrate protestors.

Adoption by the United Nations security council of the resolution on Iraq, tabled yesterday by the US, will set in motion a detailed timetable that could take the world to war. MacAskill and Burkeman report.

Liberals insist that Bush regime must be understood as "politics as usual." But one election has already been stolen--Presidential 2000. Liberals note certain obvious dissimilarities with previous variants of fascism. Anis Shivani reviews the literature and compares.