A Hunger for Justice A Hunger for Justice
Twenty-five years ago, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands died after a sixty-six day hunger strike. Today political prisoners from Guantánamo to Iran, Turkey and Eastern Europe contin...
May 6, 2006 / Feature / Denis O’Hearn
Goss in the Cold: A Scandal Skedaddle? Goss in the Cold: A Scandal Skedaddle?
A bolt out of the blue? Or a bolt? Porter Goss's sudden announcement of his departure from the CIA is puzzling. The former Republican chairman of th...
May 5, 2006 / David Corn
Rumsfeld Uses Colin Powell as a Human Shield Rumsfeld Uses Colin Powell as a Human Shield
Challenged by veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern to explain why he had claimed to "know" before the invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction when t...
May 5, 2006 / John Nichols
Goss’d Out Goss’d Out
Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre was just on CNN talking about Porter Goss's suprise resignation as CIA chief. When asked why Goss unexpectedly quit, McIntyre feigned ignoran...
May 5, 2006 / The Nation
If You Live in a Glass House… If You Live in a Glass House…
Just eight weeks ago I was in Moscow at a conference called, "From Fulton to Malta: How the Cold War Began and Ended." What a difference two months make. In DC and Moscow, it's ...
May 5, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
People Power In Nepal People Power In Nepal
The removal of the contemptuous Nepali regime was a type of "people power" absent from Asia and the rest of world for many years, opening dialogue with the Maoist rebels and creati...
May 5, 2006 / Feature / Kanak Mani Dixit
Sheriff Joe’s Show Sheriff Joe’s Show
Just what we needed. The flamboyant Joe Arpaio, Sheriff of Maricopa County (the Phoenix area), will now have his deputies start arresting illegal immigrants. More precisely, Sher...
May 5, 2006 / The Nation
The Case for Impeaching President George W. Bush The Case for Impeaching President George W. Bush
When an Administration with a track record of lies, torture and abuses of power cannot even float a palatable rationale for expanding unsupervised spying on American citizens, it f...
May 4, 2006 / Michael Ratner
Kaiser Kidney Fiasco Kaiser Kidney Fiasco
If the confusion and miserable performance that has resulted from the Republicans' Prescription Drug giveaway to the HMO's and insurance companies wasn't enough to demonstrate the...
May 4, 2006 / The Nation
Mission (Really) Not Accomplished Mission (Really) Not Accomplished
President Bush and his acolytes continually suggest that the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq are "success stories" that just have not receiving proper attention from the U.S. ...
May 4, 2006 / John Nichols