Naomi Klein expresses outrage that very little concern is being heard about the Iraqi deaths stemming from the US invasion.

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is under pressure to intervene and delay this month's general election amid the furore caused by the Council of Guardians' decision to blacklist moderate candidates. Many reformist members of parliament resigned in protest and some now fear that security forces may act to push through the vote. Most Iranians don't want a confrontation between conservatives and reformers--they want the changes in their social, cultural and economic lives to continue. Bernard Hourcade reports.

The policies of Ariel Sharon's government, especially its security wall, are meeting resistance within Israel, partly because the liberties of Israelis are being threatened, amid signs of a democracy in crisis. Israeli journalist Meron Rapoport reports.

The US invasion of Iraq was primarily an operation to reassert US power and control over oil supplies. Fault lines in the 'international (capitalist) community' have developed. This article seeks to contextualize the recent US war on Iraq within the geo-political economy that has shaped US foreign policy since the Iran-Iraq War (1981-1988).

Bush administration policies guarantee a constant flow of oil, no matter what the human cost. Frida Berrigan looks at top US oil suppliers and their human rights records.

Peter Gowan, author of "The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance", analyzes the United States origins of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945, and the duality of US usages and conceptions of it ever since: from the Cold War through the collapse of the USSR to today’s war on terror and occupation of Iraq.

With appropriate moral outrage, Pilger recounts how the invasion of Iraq ranks as the greatest crime in the recent history of the world.

Alfred Cavallo surveys oil resources around the world and related politics. He concludes that "Oil supplies are finite and will soon be controlled by a handful of nations; the invasion of Iraq and control of its supplies will do little to change that. One can only hope that an informed electorate and its principled representatives will realize that the facts do matter, and that nature--not military might--will soon dictate the ultimate availability of petroleum."