Articles

Two Middle East Wars Two Middle East Wars

Two Palestinian-Israeli wars have erupted in this region. One is the Palestinian nation's war for its freedom from occupation and for its right to independent statehood. Any decen...

Apr 4, 2002 / Amos Oz

Questions for Mr. Bush Questions for Mr. Bush

The Bush Administration has vigorously and effectively responded to the terrorist attack of September 11. The country seems united behind that effort. Certainly there was no hint ...

Apr 4, 2002 / George McGovern

Microbes at the Gates Microbes at the Gates

Odds are good that on a plane or boat or bus somewhere in the world sits a refugee headed for the United States carrying the seeds of a weapon of mass destruction. The agent he un...

Apr 4, 2002 / Wendy Johnson

View From Beirut View From Beirut

First, the Arab League summit here in Beirut was chaos. Then it was the nearest to Arab unity that the Middle East has seen since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The chaos, of ...

Apr 4, 2002 / Robert Fisk

The Road Not Yet Taken The Road Not Yet Taken

Even as the Middle East plunged deeper into the maelstrom of fear, hatred, violence and despair, recent diplomatic developments, ironically, made the conditions for achieving peac...

Apr 4, 2002 / The Editors

Rights on the Line Rights on the Line

Recent days have brought the first tentative but welcome roadblocks to the Bush Administration's war-fevered assault on civil liberties. In Newark, Superior Court Judge Arthur D'I...

Apr 4, 2002 / The Editors

Twenty Years On Twenty Years On

Here we are, twenty years on, and the reports of the Israeli army smashing its way through Palestinian towns remind me of what came out of Lebanon as Sharon and his invading army...

Apr 4, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Keyboard Campus The Keyboard Campus

"Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics," business "guru" Peter Drucker proclaimed in Forbes five years ago. "It took more than 200 years for the printed...

Apr 4, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Brier and Roy Rosenzweig

The Body Shop The Body Shop

There are those opposed to the use of cloning technology to create human embryos for stem-cell research whose concerns emanate from commitments to social justice. One of their arg...

Apr 4, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ralph Brave

White–It Gets Worse White–It Gets Worse

Six weeks ago, The Nation called for Army Secretary Tom White's resignation. White, former vice chairman of an Enron Ponzi scheme called Enron Energy Services (EES) was self-evide...

Apr 4, 2002 / Robert L. Borosage

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