The Wide World of Torture The Wide World of Torture
Current discussions tend to trivialize acts that are not only immoral but illegal according to covenants the United States has signed.
Nov 8, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary
We can't allow fear to erode commitment to our constitutional liberties.
Nov 8, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
We’re All Ears We’re All Ears
What sticks in my mind more than any particular accomplishment of the supersecret National Security Agency is its mammoth size. Only a few miles from my home, I now know, exists a...
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
Chinese Boxes Chinese Boxes
Thankfully, the clash between Washington and Beijing over the downing of a US reconnaissance plane off Hainan Island never spiraled out of control like the Chinese jet that buzzed...
Apr 19, 2001 / The Editors
Cold War Talk Cold War Talk
The prevailing view of the Bush Administration's expulsion of some fifty Russian diplomats in retaliation for the Robert Hanssen spy scandal has been that it was a throwback to co...
Mar 30, 2001 / The Editors
What Are Spies For? What Are Spies For?
The air now quivers with gloomy assessments of the secrets "compromised" by the FBI's Robert Hanssen, a senior official who stands accused of working for the Russians since 1985....
Mar 8, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro? The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro?
New evidence of a CIA scheme to use Ernest Hemingway's Cuban farm.
Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / David Corn and Gus Russo
Chile and the End of Pinochet Chile and the End of Pinochet
The former dictator is charged at last, and human rights are the talk of the nation.
Feb 8, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper
A Tale of Two Venonas A Tale of Two Venonas
A review of The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, by Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel.
Dec 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Schwartz
Double Enmity Double Enmity
Noah Isenberg reviews Communazis, by Alexander Stephan.
Dec 14, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg