Collateral Damage
When does “regrettable collateral damage” become a deliberate and calculated war against families? This is an important question to consider now.
War Crimes
In an October issue of Profil, an Austrian weekly magazine, the columnist, Georg Hoffman-Ostenhof, raises the question: “Is Bush a War Criminal?”
Priming the Pump
Almost 4 million new cars sit unsold in car dealers’ lots. A credit analyst who predicted Enron’s downfall now believes that Ford may go bankrupt. Hundreds of surplus airplanes sit parked. Bond markets’ near-zero valuation of US airline debt points to a belief that the industry could collapse.
Balancing Acts: Walking a Tightrope in Occupied Iraq
Editor’s note: The Iraqi Communist Party holds one seat out of 25 on the Provisional Governing Council of Iraq. The US military and administrative authorities conceded this seat to the ICP only after other political forces in Iraq emphasized the Party’s legitimacy among the people of Iraq and urged the occupation forces to accept them on the Council. Ali and Batti discuss here the Party’s assessment of the war and occupation, bringing a speedy end to the occupation, the toll of war on the Iraqi people, and the revitalization of the Iraqi trade union movement under the new and independent Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions.
