From the spring of 2000 to the spring of 2003, almost 20% of all US workers were laid off from either full-time or part-time jobs. The Magdoff & Magdoff analyse the current situation of "the reserve army of labor" in the US.

Except in times of war, capitalist economies rarely reach full employment. Employment is stagnant in the US economy. The editors of MR examine the current situation beginning with discussion of the "Economic Report of the President."

South African community radio legend Zane Ibrahim was detained for 12 hours by the Department of Homeland Security as he flew into Baltimore. Ibrahim, who ran a pirate radio station under South Africa's apartheid regime, was in the country to give a keynote address at a Goucher College forum on reflecting on 10 years of South African democracy was questioned closely about the station's anti-war programming. When he was released he was warned that officials would be keeping a close eye on him.

Kaminski asks for the Bush Regime to defend its statements that there were actually 19 hijackers on 9/11/01.

This is an article regarding Guantanamo Bay, and the upcoming supreme court cases dealing with the term enemy combatant.

Although the exact number of US civilian employees in Iraq who have been killed or wounded since the beginning of the occupation remains largely unreported in the last few weeks we have seen an escalation in the level of violence directed at civilian workers. Despite this spike in violence, US frms like Halliburton that are working in Iraq and recruiters, like Baltimore-based Aerotek Inc., are seeking ways to fill hundreds of jobs that are now open to Americans in Iraq.

From Iraq, Naomi Klein reports on the war provoked by the US occupation and waged by its forces against the growing number of Shiites who support Moqtada al-Sadr.

What do George W. Bush, John Kerry, and Paul Martin have in common? The answer: campaign blogs. But just how effective are they? Journalists and politicians who blog sound off: http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/