Relieved that the Republicans lost the recent U.S. mid-term elections? Maybe you shouldn't be. The two U.S. political parties are Tweedledum and Tweedledee. A change of course at mid-term works wonders for putting discontented Americans back to sleep. "See! The system works!". All we can say is, "It sure does. Only not in your favour." What's in store now that Bush "lost" the election?

It is clear that the planet is in deep trouble, from war to global warming, from disease or just the threat of disease to the growing economic squeeze on the mass of humanity. Our leaders try to keep us in a state of fear in order to convince us that we need them to protect us. But they are the real enemy of people of conscience everywhere. What can you do about it?

What changes has the shift from communism to capitalism brought for the ordinary Pole? Has life improved? What are the benefits of western-style democracy? The editors of Signs of the Times discuss these questions with Oliwer, a man from Poland who has also travelled extensively in the former communist countries.

In the aftermath of this summer's Israeli slaughter of innocent civilians in Palestine and Lebanon, the Bush Administration has adopted the extremist slogan of "Islamic Fascism" from Zionist and Christian fundamentalist propagandists. For years we have been programmed by the mainstream media to consider Muslims and Arabs as less than human, a demonisation that permits the pathocrats in Israel, the US, and Britain to kill Arabs with impunity, and without a word of protest from their citizenry. This week we discuss the significance of the move to the label "Islamic fascism" and how the term has no relation to the regimes in question in the Muslim world. At the same time, fascism very accurately describes the situation in the US, Britain, and Israel. The REAL Axis of Evil, the US, Britain, and Israel, are in fact announcing their own plans for the rest of humanity.