POWs in Legal Limbo
It's safe to assume that the 150 or so Al Qaeda and Taliban militiamen now occupying those 6-by-8-foot cages in Guantánamo Bay are not sympathetic characters. It's also...
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February 25, 2002 Issue
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Editorial
An Antiwar Movement Grows in Israel
A few months after the 1967 war, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, a professor at Hebrew University and a leading Israeli intellectual--who was also an observant Jew--stated that Israel mu...
Enron Values
There are no blue dresses to analyze in this one, or interns in berets to quiz. But make no mistake. The Enron scandal is the real thing--a window on the nexus of money and po...
Why the Right Loves Bush
It was the start of another Conservative Political Action Conference--the annual gathering of several thousand activists--and Republican Party chairman Marc Racicot, in unexci...
George W. in the Garden of Gethsemane
This letter was originally published on January 29, 2002 at www.michaelmoore.com
Column
Bad Hair Day
We have reached the point that the idea of liberty, an idea relatively recent and new, is already in the process of fading from our consciences and our standa...
Take This Prize and Shove It
Right till the end of January, Dita Sari, an Indonesian in her late 20s, was preparing to fly from her home near Jakarta to Salt Lake City to bask in the admiration of assorte...
Axis Me No Questions…
George W. Bush's State of the Union address has laid bare his Administration's political strategy. It is to manipulate the grief, anger and patriotism inspired by September 11...
Enron Flew Under the Radar
Is the Enron story one of outrageous mendacity or stupefying ignorance?
Feature
A Fair Vote in San Francisco
On March 5 San Franciscans will have the opportunity to vote for an electoral system that elected "Red Ken" Livingstone as London's Mayor and Mary Robinson as Ireland's Pres...
Many Oppose Trade Deal
Pôrto Alegre, Brazil--In US living rooms, talk about such policy measures as the White House's proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is likely to elicit cluele...
Books & the Arts
Society of the Spectacle
The slogans scrawled across the walls of Paris in May 1968 suggest possibilities most of us have forgotten or that were long ago deemed preposterous. "Never work!" said one sl...
Hoisting the Black Flag
As the World Economic Forum met in New York City recently, the American media were much more concerned with what protesters were doing in the streets than with what they were ...
Yuri Gagarin Rides Again
London
Despite an initial drop in attendance in the uncertain aftermath of September 11, and the changing of the guard at three major institutio...
Our Collective Bargain
The fortunes of American unions have taken a turn for the worse. Thanks to terrorism and recession, union members are reeling from a series of economic and political setbacks....
