Image and spectacle are of crucial importance in US presidential campaigns. Media events like party conventions and daily photo opportunities are concocted to project positive images of the candidates and to construct daily messages to sell the candidate to the public. Douglas Kellner, philosopher and media critic, provides general analysis with focus on the Bush v. Kerry campaign.

Political scientist Carl Boggs, author of "The End of Politics," discusses George W. Bush, John Kerry, and the politics of US imperialism.

A critical commentary on the Bush v. Kerry campaign, the Democratic Party and the US Left's relationship to it.

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A history of the background to the development of the racist state, in Spain. Rodrigo de Zayas looks at the period of Phillip II to present.

The Pentagon is contemplating a draft call-up of health professionals because of a shortage of doctors, nurses and medics in the increasingly thinly stretched U.S. military

The correlative to a politics of "Anyone but Bush" has become: not a word against Kerry! Alexander Cockburn discusses the great silence of progressive America as the Democratic candidate pledges more troops for Iraq, greater fiscal austerity, and a strong hand in the war on terror.

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