As Iraqi sovereignty is "returned" to the people of Iraq, world systems thinker Immanuel Wallerstein offers analysis of current situation in the Middle East.

Attacks on homeless people increase nationwide.

Denying name to officers is not a right, justices rule

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) recently published a bleak appraisal of the privatization of public electricity monopolies in developing countries. Serge Halimi reports.

When CBS News learned that veteran journalist Seymour Hersh was about to publish in the 'New Yorker' on the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, it ran a report with photos on 60 Minutes. Ignacio Ramonet comments on the US media and the Bush administration's colonial war in Iraq.

President George Bush's latest restrictions on Cuba are intended to win Florida's Cuban vote in the November elections; they also express his obsession with ending the Castro regime rather than helping Cuba towards democracy. There are potentially dangerous contradictions within Cuban society and politics. Janette Habel reports.

Israel's plan of attack is to close off the Gaza Strip before withdrawing to concentrate on expansionist policies in the West Bank. Ariel Sharon hopes this will annihilate the Palestinians politically, condemning them to work for poverty wages in industrial estates along the security wall. Meron Rapoport reports.

Time Wise looks at former president Ronald Reagan and the politics of race in the USA.