April 2005 Vol 5, No. 4
Letter from the Editors
Antiwar
A Trojan Jackass for the Anti-War Movement
By Stan Goff
Preemptive Police Action Against Local Antiwar Group
By Bonnie Weinstein
Military Recruiters Target Campus Activists
By Hadas Their And Katrina Yeaw
Defending Labor’s Right to Protest the War
By Jack Heyman
By Gary Younge
United States
Why the $4.7 Trillion Pyramid Won’t be Enough to Save Wall Street
By Michael Hudson
Behind The Dollar’s Slide:
A World Economy Wildly Out Of Balance
By Robert J. Samuelson
By Stephen Roach
Oil for Dollars, and Dollars for U.S. Deficit
By Richard Benson
Secret U.S. Plans for Iraq’s Oil
By Greg Palast
Goss Says CIA Ban Excludes Terrorists
By Robert Bryce
The Dysfunctional Society:
U.S. Billionaires on the Rise—Roads, Bridges in Decay
By Jamie Chapman And Kate Randall
By the Editors of Scientific American
Science and Environment
The State of the World? On the Brink of Disaster
By Steve Connor
Social Change and Human Nature
By Will Miller
Latin America
Ricardo Alarcon Says: ‘Let’s Talk About Cuban Democracy’
By Liset García
US Could Not Find Anyone to Present Anti-Cuba Resolution
By Raisa Pages
The Convertible Peso Appreciates 8 Percent Against the U.S. Dollar
By Anett Rios Jauregui and José A. de la Osa
Fidel Castro: The Pope, Religion and the ‘Fall of Communism’
By María Julia Mayoral, Anett Ríos, José A. de la Osa, Alexis Schlachter and Alberto Núñez
The Pope Has Blood on His Hands
By Terry Eagleton
We Should Normalize Relations with Cuba
By Bill Fletcher Jr.
Interview with Philip Agee: CIA Intervention in Venezuela
By Jonah Gindin
By David Noon
Why Socialists Defend the Bolivarian Revolution
By John Riddel
Coming to Terms with China: No Longer the “Lone” Superpower
By Chalmers Johnson
Afghanistan and Iraq
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
Journalists Tell of U.S. Falluja Killings
Two by Mumia Abu Jamal
Ona Move! Greetings to the Global Women’s Strike—2005!
Arsenal of Marxism
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism