Analysis of Bush's October 7 speech which claims to make the case for war against Iraq. Contributors include Chris Toensing (Editor, Middle East Report), Phyllis Bennis (Institute for Policy Studies), Rahul Mahajan (The New Crusade: America's War on Terrorism), and others.

Abby Aguirre reports on the cyber-harassment of critics of Israel's policy in Palestine. Activists spammed include Monica Tarazi, of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, MIT professor Noam Chomsky, and others.

Bush administration opportunistically uses human rights violations reports to justify its planned war against Iraq. Comments from Amnesty International. (October 2002)

As governments of the European Union sign up for war against Iraq, Ramonet points out that nominally sovereign states are being reduced to the status of satellites. (October 2002)

Fotopoulos shows that the "war against terrorism" launched by the transnational elite, dominated by the U.S., after the September 11 terrorist attacks aims to secure the stability of the New World Order, founded on capitalist neoliberal globalization and oligarchic political structures, by crushing any perceived threats. (Vol. 8 No. 2, July 2002; see also Carl Boggs "Militarism and Terrorism: The Deadly Cycle" in the same issue, but print only)

As the Bush administration prepares to make war on the Iraqi people, it is important that we recall the medical consequences of the last Gulf War. In that conflict, in effect a nuclear war, the civilian population, not Saddam Hussein, bore the brunt of the devastation. And will again.

20,000 people filled Central Park's East Meadow in New York City on October 6 to protest the Bush Administration's planned war on Iraq.

A question and answer session with Noam Chomsky on the Bush's administration's drive to make war on Iraq.