Although (the majority of) the American intelligentsia, which used be considered leftist, and (most of) the media has submited themselves to the pro-war power group lead by the Bush style, neoconservative, fundamentalist-religious mission, there are progressive movements and communities in the USA, which do not join the narrow-minded "patriotic" choir and turn against the "narrathemes" defining and dominating public discourse.

Latin America pays a high price for being the Number One laboratory of neoliberal experimentation in the past quarter of a century: the area has now turned into one of the most unstable regions in both economic, political and social sense. 2003 could be a decisive year for the future of the continent.

The trinity of oil, terrorism an liberal political liberalisationprovides several meanings to the war againts Iraq. The liberal perspective unites these three lines in one and claims that although war is not a decent thing but at least it removes one bloody dictator. In the historical-critical view, however, the picture is incomplete. The war agains Iraq can be understood as the spreading the exhausted "values" of the US civilisation in the frame of a "recolonisation" that aims to integrate the peripheric and semi-peripheric parts of the world into the coming global order.