The American people deserve to have a president who will always put the national interest first. If you’re honest with yourself, (and I hope that you will be), there is no way to justify this Iraq madness as being in “our” national interest. You have been conned by slick operatives from “Big Oil,” the “Military Industrial Complex,” and, particularly, by the “Israel First Brigade.”

Mike Davis, author of "City of Quartz", Ecology of Fear", and "Dead Cities", reports on the fires burning in Southern California.

Meeting in Chicago October 24-25, 154 delegates representing approximately 500,000 trade union members from all over the country held the first National Assembly of US Labor Against the War, and established the organization. The purpose of the new organization is to force the AFL-CIO to address the US occupation of Iraq as well as the escalating war in the US against working people. Kim Scipes reports.

12 US states have rebelled against the Bush administration and its environmental policies by suing to block changes in the Clean Air Act that will make it easier for industrial plants to upgrade their equipment without paying for anti-pollution devices. Those involved in the lawsuit are Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin. David Usbourne reports.

Imagine Erie, PA as a refugee camp whose residents are terrorized by an occupying army.

Stephen Kerr reports on Executive Order 13303, a license to loot Iraq. (Two from Global Research, my choice for the most invaluable website for progressive commentary.)

The killing in Iraq goes on and on:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SLO310A.html

Executive Order 13303 is a license to loot Iraq:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KER310B.html

Discussion with Tariq Ali, author of "Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq" and "Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity." Ali discusses the US military operation in Iraq, perceptions of 9/11 in the Muslim world, the long-term objectives of American foreign policy in the Middle East, the stability of the Musharraf regime in Pakistan, and the prospects for a more equitable global order.

"We think it's a case of the EPA playing word games with something that has such a huge impact on human health around the world"