Confinement, diquarks and goldstone`s theorem

Determinations of the gluon propagator in the continuum and in lattice simulations are compared. A systematic truncation procedure for the quark Dyson-Schwinger and bound state Bethe-Salpeter equations is described. The procedure ensures the flavor-octet axial- vector Ward identity is satisfied order-by-order, thereby guaranteeing the preservation of Goldstone`s theorem; and identifies a mechanism that simultaneously ensures the absence of diquarks in QCD and their presence in QCD{sup N{sub c}=2}, where the color singlet diquark is the ``baryon`` of the theory.