by Alice Zillah

At the Support the Truth event on February 18, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter told an Olympia audience that the Bush administration had reviewed plans in October 2004 to attack Iran in June of 2005. "The Pentagon was told to be prepared to launch a massive aerial attack against Iran, Iraq's neighbor to the east, in order to destroy the Iranian nuclear program."

by Phil Gasper

There's been a whole series of attacks on left-wing academics across the whole country. The most prominent ones are the Middle Eastern Studies department at Columbia University in New York, which was attacked in a film made by a pro-Zionist group; Ward Churchill at the University of Colorado, who is being pilloried for his article written just after September 11; and other cases of harassment of left-wing or progressive faculty members.

by Ann Rogers and Lois Danks

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the treaty negotiated by Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens and Northwest Indian tribes. The tribes traded 64 million acres of land for the right to fish and keep reservation lands.

Does that mean relations between whites and Indians have mellowed into mutual respect? Yes and no. When disputes over sovereignty and Native rights arise, the public generally responds 4-to-1 in favor of Indians. But those who stand to profit by stealing Native resources fight sovereignty with all the power they can muster.

by Mike Whitney

"If the world's central bankers accumulate fewer dollars, the result would be an unrelenting American need to borrow in the face of an ever weaker dollar - a recipe for higher interest rates and higher prices. The economic repercussions could unfold gradually, resulting in a long, slow decline in living standards. Or there could be a quick unraveling, with the hallmarks of an uncontrolled fiscal crisis."

New York Times editorial 4-2-05