• WMDs, or Weapons of Mass Destruction. Actually we’ve heard a lot about these, but did you know that the report Project for the New American Century, produced in 1998 by many of Bush’s cabinet members, speaks of equipping the US forces with "advanced forms of biological weapons that may transform biological warfare to a "politically useful tool"?

• IN TEXAS, YOU SAY? All the time that the US was looking in Iraq for WMDs, they found nothing. Well, not quite true. They did not find them in Iraq, but they did in Texas. You didn’t hear about it on the CNN or Fox TV news or on any other major media, but last May, US Federal Agents arrested a white racist couple in a small town near Tyler, Texas, USA. The Feds seized a cyanide bomb, capable of unleashing a deadly poison cloud, a supply of chemical and components for additional WMDs, gas masks, over 100 conventional bombs, an arsenal of automatic weapons, silencers, and a million rounds of ammunition. If Muslims have been caught with these WMDs, fake ID’s, gas masks and books on making explosives, it would have been front-page news for weeks on end. Talk about selective reporting!

• TRADE – One of the favourite techniques used by capitalism for subjugating independent nations to the control of the powerful multinational corporations is through the signing of free trade agreements. But does this benefit the workers? Under the North American Free Trade (NAFTA), says Lori Wallach, the Director of Global Trade Watch: "Most people in the three countries (US, Canada, Mexico) were losers. Only a few large corporations were major winners." Millions of Mexican rural people lost their livelihood and had to move to the cities as a result of their inability to compete with imported products.

• SECURITY is a big issue in the USA nowadays. Latest word is that travelers using US airports will soon be "terror coded". Red indicates you are a high-risk, yellow means you’re subjected to extra searches and if you’re rated green, you’re trouble free.

• RELIGION – George W. Bush says that the war in Iraq is not a war against Islam. Think the Muslims believe him? No likely, after he authorized over 800 US Christian evangelists to go to Iraq armed with Arabic bibles, videos and religious tracts to "Save Muslims from their false religion". American Christian missionaries have declared "War for Souls", writes The Telegraph (UK).

• JUSTICE – takes some strange twists sometimes. Take the Exxon-Valdez oil spill disaster in the seas off Alaska back in 1989. A jury held ExxonMobil solely responsible for the disaster and was ordered to pay $5 billion dollars in damages to the native people in Alaska. Wonder how much ExxonMobil had paid ten years later? Not a penny, says Greg Palast in his book "The Brest Democracy Money Can Buy" They managed to defraud the natives and settled for about $50 million dollars, all of it covered by their insurance.

• TALK RADIO – programs are popular in the United States. People can phone in to a program and express their opinions about selected subjects. Usually the hosts are rightwing hacks, intolerant of anything but rightwing opinions. One host on radio station KFYI in Phoenix, Arizona, who calls himself "Your voice of reason" wanted to nuke Afghanistan, and another upon learning that a 23 year old Mid-East peace activist Rachel Corrie of USA, had been run over by an Israeli bulldozer, shouted "Back up and run over her again." KGYI is owned by the Texas Clear Channel, owners of no less than 1,200 radio stations across the USA and a very big financial contributor to George W. Bush.

• REVOLUTION – And here’s some wisdom from the former US president John F. Kennedy: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."

• FASCISM – And to conclude, some words from another (former) national leader, Benito Mussolini. "Modern fascism, should properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state, military and corporate power. "