As President Bush made his way to the U.N. today, at least 3,500 antiwar protestors took to New York City's streets to call for an end to the Iraq war and no more wars.

The mainstream American media seems incapable of publishing anything rational concerning North Korea or its leader Kim Jong Il. The latest example of a truly ridiculous and sloppily written article is by right-wing ideologue Robert D. Kaplan and appears in the October issue of the Atlantic Monthly.

The Bush administration last week put to Congress legislation that would give immunity from prosecution for war crimes to CIA operatives and others who engage in “tough” interrogations of prisoners.

Almost a century and a half after Marx’s painstaking work had unearthed the anatomy of modern bourgeois society, we are once more in the danger of being deluged by “vulgar economy”.

The key point to note here is that not all those who condemned the use of nuclear weapons were radicals or liberals. Many among them were conservatives who held to a strong moral position on the use of these weapons as being against their religious convictions.

Political opponents of the Khartoum regime have come under increased surveillance, harassment and arbitrary arrest by NIF security forces, states a number of recent reports by the Sudan Organization Against Torture (SOAT).

It’s now approaching five years since the Taliban government in Afghanistan was deposed by American bombing and the reoccupation of the country with the former mujahedeen and so-called regional warlords, together with invading US troops. So what has happened in this almost five-year period?

People imagine that their opinions are their own, not those of corporate moguls who compete to colonise the public sphere. We are not as free in thought as we think. 

AS THE casualties and devastation mount in Afghanistan, more Canadians are asking tough questions. Dozens of organizations representing millions of people have endorsed the October 28 Day of Action to demand the immediate withdrawal of Canadian troops.

he UK-based charity organisation Save the Children has launched a global report exposing the devastating consequences of armed conflict on education in 30 countries. As the only country in the Middle East assessed, Iraq is singled out as one of the most recent problem areas.

"What if they gave a war and no one came?" was a popular slogan during the Viet Nam war. It remains a timeless and powerful motto, and is as relevant as ever. It is still a mantra that evokes thought provoking responses and suggests some intriguing possibilities.

Dr. Andrew Bard Schmookler asks Tom Ridge, his old Harvard classmate, to speak out against the Bush administration. Ridge, the author writes, seemed an earnest young man rather than a sophisticated cynic. Now, Schmookler wants to know if he saw his old classmate correctly during their days at Quincy House.