PLUS: Joe Allen on The Gary Tyler case; Shaun Harkin on Anti-immigrant crackdown; Amira Hass on restricted travel in the occupied territories; David Whitehouse on the U.S. Deal with North Korea; Saman Sepehri on how the U.S. is gearing up to attack Iran

FEATURES

Crisis of U.S. imperialism
Joel Geier looks at the problems facing the Bush administration internationally

Prisoners of ideology
Phil Gasper analyses how America's draconian approach to criminal justice is beginning to unravel

The new face of U.S. politics
Lance Selfa explores the new political conditions created by the worsening war and the Democratic election triumph

Lebanon and the Middle East crisis
Gilbert Achcar talks to the ISR after a recent trip to Lebanon

The watchdog, not the master
Sherry Wolf challenges the notion that the "Israel Lobby" determines Washington's policy toward Israel

Islam and Islamophobia
Deepa Kumar debunks a number of myths peddled about Islam

Is the U.S. becoming post-industrial
Adam Turn examines the argument that we have entered a new post-industrial age, and its corrollary, that the working class is no longer capable of mounting a collective challenge to capitalism

PIcasso's Guernica
Scott Johnson pulls the curtain open on one of the world's most famous paintings

The German Revolution 1917-1923
Todd Chretien offers us part II of his review of the classic historical account by Pierre Broue of Germany's revolutionary years

REVIEWS

Voices of war resisters

PLUS: Afghanistan: the "good" occupation; The second Intifada; Israel-Palestine: The case for a one-state solution; The return of sexism; China's peasants; The U.S. in Central America; The history of rum