EDITORIALS
The Left Takes a Dive for Kerry
Plus: Turning Point in Najaf?
NEWS AND REPORTS
The Olympics: Paid for in Blood
Plus: AIDS Crisis--Profit and Loss; Turmoil and Transition in Palestine; Boston Social Forum; The Fahrenheit Phenomenon; Social Forum in Quito; Labor in Haiti after the Coup
FEATURES
War Crimes and Imperial Fantasies
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky
Two Candidates, One Agenda
Lance Selfa
We Are the Majority
Campaign speech by Peter Miguel Camejo, leading Green Party member and Ralph Nader's running mate
Kerry's Bagman
Paul D'Amato on Dennis Kucinich
The War on the Poor
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair put the Clinton years in perspective--an excerpt from their new book, Dime's Worth of Difference
Afghanistan's Endless War
Katherine Dwyer
The Roots of Gay Oppression
Sherry Wolf
Fighting for an Independent Kashmir
Interview with Yasin Malik, chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
Disorders of the Left Kind
Adam Turl reviews Lenin's classic, *eft-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder
REVIEWS
Advice from an Imperial Liberal
Review of Toby Dodge's Inventing Iraq
Plus: Myth of the Super-Mom; Arundhati Roy's Guide to Empire; Jefferson and the Slave Power; Surveillance in America; Insights of an Antiwar Army Ranger; U.S. Support for State Terror; Bipartisan Assault on the Environment; Voices for Global Justice; The Difference that Reds Made in the Unions