As the United States gears up for an invasion of Iraq, the great unanswered question continues to be: Why is the Bush Administration so determined to topple a government that has been effectively contained by American power for eleven years? Michael Klare looks at the connection of material resources to the U.S. policy towards Iraq.

Review of a recent book edited by Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin. The book, The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal & Dissent, is a collection of articles by Israelis opposed to the Israeli government's actions in Palestine.

Interesting commentary by Joseph Sobran, concluding that "the world doesn't need more democracies. It needs more freedom - a vastly different thing."

The aftermath of the terrorist attacks has revived imperialist ideology in the United States, rather than caused it to query its world role. Writers do not hesitate to draw parallels between their nation and ancient Rome, which they hold to be a model for world domination in the 21st century.

The thought that a US citizen is being held indefinitely without any Constitutional rights on the basis of a determination the government has made in secret is of no great concern to the Washington Post.

Slowly, President Bush's war plan against Iraq is emerging from the thick
fog. At first it looked like a collection of hazy slogans, but gradually it
is becoming clear that it has definite - if hidden - aims.

Today there are no hints of the Great Upheaval of 1877--the railroad workers strike and its extensive support in cities across the United States. Oriole Park at Camden Yards now stands in the place of the 1877 rebellion in Baltimore. Rick Mercier helps us remember what happened in the summer of 1877. See also from Indymedia "Production of Space, Destruction of Place, Erasure of Memory: A Photoessay on Stadiums in Baltimore" at http://baltimore.indymedia.org/pbook/stadiums/display_contents/index.php .

The human race is doomed to extinct itself, thanks to it's insane and evil policy of choosing to deliberately commit genocide upon every generation of children that it creates. This Essay exposes All of the Forbidden Truths regarding this issue.