Editor’s Page

Sixty Years of Global Economic Expansion Ending?

By Nat Weinstein

International

Tel Aviv to Tbilisi: Israel’s Role in the Russia-Georgia War

By Ali Abunimah

War a la Carte: How the U.S. Invited a War in South Ossetia

By Eric Walberg

Venezuela: Alliance with Employers

By Stalin Perez Borges

Korea: Stop Arrests of Trade Union Leaders

Anti War

Poverty + War = A Deadly Combo

By Bonnie Weinstein

Labor

Vote ‘No’ on the Tentative Contract!

By Jack Heyman

Challenges Facing the Labor Movement in Canada

By Roger Annis

A Perfect Capitalist Disaster

By Gregg Shotwell

The Expectation Stick

By Gregg Shotwell

The Freightliner Five are demanding Justice

By Lee Sustar

Black Agenda

Denver 2008: Hope Is For The Weak

By Bruce Dixon

Freedom Rider: Death to Afghanistan

By Margaret Kimberley

Freedom Rider: So Long Suckers

By Margaret Kimberley

Obama Turns Blind Eye to Israeli Apartheid

By Bruce Dixon

United States

Obama’s Chicago Boys, Lookout

By Naomi Klein

Suicide Spreads as One Solution to the Debt Crisis

By Barbara Ehrenreich

What Will an Obama Presidency Bring?

By Carl Finamore and Mark T. Harris

Obama, the Prince of Bait-and-Switch

By John Pilger

Palestine

Citizenship Law makes Israel an Apartheid State

By Amos Schocken

The Palestinian Bar-Mitzvah

By Bassam Aramin

End of the Two-State Solution

By Saree Makdisi

Cuba

The Harassed Team

By Fidel Castro Ruz

Political Prisoners

The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Book Review By Carole Seligman

I’m a Slave!

By Kevin Cooper

Seven by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Of Terrorist Lists & Listers

The Bo’ They Called “Bushead”

August 8

Beyond Politics

Business Sense

The Outsider’s Road Within

Saving Bankers While Homeowners Fall

Environment

Secret Report: Biofuel Caused Food Crisis

By Aditya Chakrabortty

Sports/Politics

Why He Fears the Fist: A Response to Jonah Goldberg

By Dave Zirin

The Sweetest Dream

By Cliff Conner

Letters

Letters to the Editor