Iraq: The Doubters Grow Iraq: The Doubters Grow
This past week confirmed that the American political establishment is not united in support of the Bush Administration's policy of forcible "regime change" in Iraq. Odd as it m...
Aug 15, 2002 / The Editors
‘Murder by Public Policy’ ‘Murder by Public Policy’
I am writing this review in the midst of a Chicago heat wave, almost exactly seven years after the heat disaster that killed nearly 800 people in the city. The Chicago Tribune's m...
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Micaela di Leonardo
Mary McCarthy at 90 Mary McCarthy at 90
Mary McCarthy would have turned 90 on June 21, a fact that is itself astonishing to those who remember her flagrant youth, when her sharp style made her the most feared and forthri...
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Morris Dickstein
Sour Thoughts for Dog Days Sour Thoughts for Dog Days
Let's start with Cynthia McKinney. Don't you think that if Arab-American or African-American groups targeted an incumbent white, liberal, maybe Jewish, congressperson, and ship...
Aug 15, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Stirrings in Kabul Stirrings in Kabul
Several weeks on from the loya jirga national council, the streets of Kabul have an extra bustle. Whereas in January the place was deserted by 6 pm, now the curfew has been extend...
Aug 15, 2002 / Anthony Borden and J. West
Who Owns Water? Who Owns Water?
Privatization must be stopped, and water declared the common property of all.
Aug 15, 2002 / Feature / Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke
Water Apartheid Water Apartheid
In South Africa, the only country in the world where people's right to water is actually written into the Constitution, the townships surrounding cities like Johannesburg and Durb...
Aug 15, 2002 / Feature / Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke
Fight-Back in Bolivia Fight-Back in Bolivia
In 1998 the World Bank notified the Bolivian government that it would refuse to guarantee a $25 million loan to refinance water services in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba unless ...
Aug 15, 2002 / Feature / Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke
Gilded Age II Gilded Age II
How did it all start? What triggered the 1990s political corruption, its inequality in wealth and its stock market bubble? This is the decade that Kevin Phillips rails against in ...
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Alice H. Amsden