Activism

Dispatch From Israel Dispatch From Israel

As I was driving home from work late Wednesday night, it became clear that the assault would begin within hours.

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Neve Gordon

Dispatch From Philippines Dispatch From Philippines

Walden Bello was in Baghdad March 14-17 as a member of the Asian Peace Mission, a delegation of parliamentarians and members of civil society from different countries in Asia.

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Walden Bello

Dispatch From Jordan Dispatch From Jordan

The shockingly awful Anglo-American invasion of Iraq means that Jordan is now literally situated between two wars: To the west, the increasingly bloody Israeli-Palestinian conf...

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Mouin Rabbani

Dispatch From Egypt Dispatch From Egypt

My neighbor, who like many Egyptians prefers not to see his name in print, asked me about my nationality the morning the war broke out. "French?" he inquired hopefully. America...

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Steve Negus

Dispatch From Nigeria Dispatch From Nigeria

The gym is the last place to look for an impassioned discussion of global politics in Nigeria, a country that is currently pre-occupied with gasoline scarcity, rising political...

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Waziri Adio

Dispatch From India Dispatch From India

The Indian public has long been suspicious of the US arguments for military action against Iraq and the legitimacy of any "regime change" executed by a superpower with imperial...

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Praful Bidwai

Dispatch From Germany Dispatch From Germany

I came across a sign the other day, inelegantly scrawled on cardboard and stuck to a telephone pole. It read Fuck Bush.

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Paul Hockenos

Dispatch From Spain Dispatch From Spain

The Spanish capital took on the air of a battle zone the weekend after the war began, as antiwar protesters clashed with riot police throughout the city.

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Samuel Loewenberg

The Road to Peace The Road to Peace

Many pundits predicted that the peace movement would dry up once war began, and indeed polls show that American support for the war rose to as high as 71 percent after its laun...

Mar 27, 2003 / Liza Featherstone

Left Coast Notes Left Coast Notes

While Michael Moore was leaving the stage of the Kodak Theater during the seventy-fifth annual Academy Awards ceremony, after calling George W.

Mar 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper

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