Stupid Leaders, Useless Spies, Angry World Stupid Leaders, Useless Spies, Angry World
The stark fact that significant portions of our planet are under the supervision of exceptionally stupid and ill-informed people is provoking unwonted expressions of anger and ...
Apr 29, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Mutiny in Iraq Mutiny in Iraq
Can we please stop calling it a quagmire? The United States isn't mired in a bog or a marsh in Iraq (quagmire's literal meaning); it is free-falling off a cliff.
Apr 29, 2004 / Column / Naomi Klein
For Their Own Good For Their Own Good
One of my favorite little films is a satirical documentary titled Babakiueria.
Apr 29, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Face the Iraq Fiasco, Senator Face the Iraq Fiasco, Senator
"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
Apr 29, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
Rumsfeld’s Police Secret Rumsfeld’s Police Secret
In his April 13 press conference, Bush lamented the poor showing of Iraqi security forces in recent clashes with insurgents.
Apr 26, 2004 / David Corn and Kristin V. Jones
Woodward Returns Woodward Returns
Correction: "The Man" is the term Dick Cheney uses to refer to George W. Bush, not the term used by other officials to refer to Cheney. (6/1/04)
Apr 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Bush’s New Iraq Viceroy Bush’s New Iraq Viceroy
Like dirty money, tainted reputations can be laundered, as the Administration fervently hopes in the case of John Negroponte. Now UN ambassador, Negroponte has been chosen by G...
Apr 22, 2004 / David Corn
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Halfway through Tim Russert's hourlong interview with Demo- cratic presidential nominee Senator John Kerry on April 18, there was an exchange that revealed in microcosm some of...
Apr 22, 2004 / Jonathan Schell