Observing the Democratic Party's active support of Bush's plans to attack Iraq, Daniel Ellsberg sees parallels with the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution which led to the escalation of the Vietnam War.

As journalists who criticize Israel's policies against the Palestinians find themselves labelled "anti-semitic," it is from publications of the Israeli press--Ma'ariv, Ha'aretz or Yediot Ahronot--that we can read what's going on in the Occupied Territories.

After living in Baltimore for 34 years, Brendan Walsh of Viva House notes that nothing has changed for the poor whose destiny is poverty. Yet, Mayor O'Malley's "Believe" campaign tells us that the solution is found in individuals and increased police presence.

In the media, places like Bali only feature as tourist playgrounds. George Monbiot points out that that endangers us all.

Basic services such as hospitals, crime prevention, sanitation, and even libraries are being privatized, given over to corporations for profit-making. Betty Mandell analyses this attack on the public sector.

President Bush's request for a Taft-Hartley injunction to open up the West Coast docks is not simply a brazen use of governmental power on behalf of employers in a collective-bargaining dispute. It is part of an ongoing battle by global shipping and terminal operation companies, backed by the world's biggest retailers and manufacturers, to weaken longshore unions.

Democratic Party leaders' deal with Bush guarantees that Iraq will continue to dominate the news right through Election Day, sucking the oxygen out of the bread-and-butter issues (the economy, Social Security, Medicare and the like) on which the Democrats had hoped to take back the House and preserve the Senate.

Actor Woody Harrelson comments on the U.S. government's drive for war against Iraq.