As Sharon escalates his criminal war against defenceless Palestinians, Arafat has the courage and defiance to resist, says Edward Said. And he has his people with him on that score.

Speech by Tariq Ali at a major rally was organised by the South Asian Alliance in Birmingham, UK on Sunday 15th September 2002 to look at the world one year on from September the 11th. "The mother of all fundamentalisms ... is American imperialist fundamentalism and unless this is fought and resisted we will face more and more disasters on a global scale...'

This link gives details and information on the Anti-Racist 28. Arrested and harassed by Baltimore Police on Augst 24th, 2002, some of these people are facing serious jail time and/or fines for attempting to protest against the National Alliance, a racist organziation.

An interview with Bush administration critic Scott Ritter, an ex-Marine, who served as the chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998.

Nick Mamatas reports on Neo-Nazi organizing in the United States, including the August 24 rally in Washington DC.

A new front in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been opened in the United States. American and Israeli computer hackers engage in identity theft, harassment, incitement to harassment, defamation of character, and malicious misrepresentation through the misuse and misappropriation of Internet technology. A report by Lawrence Davidson.

Sharon attacks the Israeli peace group Gush Shalom. It seems that the Gush Shalom activity causes many soldiers to think, for the first time, about the possibility that certain actions are not only immoral and sabotage all chances for peace, but also violate Israeli and international law. A commentary by Uri Avnery.

What gives the nation that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that has waged war far from its shores throughout the world on an unprecedented scale and with unprecedented destruction of lands and peoples, the prerogative to define global norms of absolute good and absolute evil? An analysis by Mark Selden.