A half a million patriots don't make the news but the invisable 10's of thousands of ... so called... anarchists do. .... RNC video 31 minutes. This RNC video addresses why people felt it was so important to Protest.

Organizers from Code Pink: Women for Peace were vibrantly visible during counter-convention activities during the Republican National Convention in New York. For three nights during the convention, Code Pink activists smuggled in banners, unveiled protest T-shirts and donned message-bearing pink slips, revealing themselves during high-profile speeches including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Bush. In These Times interviewed Medea Benjamin, one of Code Pink's co-founders and the first of the RNC infiltrators, in a taxi cab during the last night of the convention.

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Alain Gresh discusses the "war on terrorism" in historical context--foreign policy during the Cold War, the war on the Sandinistas' Nicaragua, the war against the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, the present war in Iraq. Gresh touches on the ideologies of the likes of Samuel Huntington--the 'clash of civilizations' perspective and the growth of 'Islamophobia'. He concludes "Parts of both western and Islamic opinion are prepared to believe that, behind the present conflicts, civilisations really are clashing. The key divisions in society are no longer between the powerful and the weak, rich and poor, haves and have-nots, but between them and us. The countries of the West should forget the struggle between classes and line up in the battle against the Other. What would be the result? A thousand-year war whose only result would be to bring comfort to the established (dis)order."

Maurice Lemoine discusses the current situation in Haiti in historical context focusing on the changing fortunes and responsibilities of Jean-Baptiste Aristide.

Roger Burbach and Jim Tardell put the ongoing US war in Iraq in historical context.

I used to ride my bike from UMBC to Maiden Choice on Wilkens Avenue to pick up groceries or the like and while it was a bit exciting at some times of day, I never considered it to be an excessively dangerous ride. In the last few years its become a death trap.

James Petras, author of many books on Latin America, looks at the myths of both the right and the left about the government of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.