Sanctions as Siege Warfare Sanctions as Siege Warfare
The continuing American bombing of Iraq has drawn attention away from the international debate over economic sanctions against Baghdad and their toll on the Iraqi people.
Mar 4, 1999 / Feature / Joy Gordon
HOPE for Africa HOPE for Africa
For more information on HOPE for Africa and Jesse Jackson Jr.'s views, see www.jessejacksonjr.org.
Feb 25, 1999 / Jesse Jackson Jr.
Curious George Talks the Market Curious George Talks the Market
The epic, slow-motion crisis unraveling the global economic system continues to gather momentum, taking down Southeast Asia, Japan, Russia, now Brazil. Who's next?
Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
The Harvard Boys Do Russia The Harvard Boys Do Russia
After seven years of economic “reform” financed by billions of dollars in U.S.
May 14, 1998 / Feature / Janine R. Wedel
People’s Sellout People’s Sellout
Wall Street did not simply drag Europe's exchanges down in its fall.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Does the Left Have a Future? Does the Left Have a Future?
With the Soviet model shattered forever, it is the social democratic one that is now in deep crisis in Western Europe. On the face of it, judging just by the results of June's Eu...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
A Spartacan Manifesto A Spartacan Manifesto
Shortly after the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, The Nation published the manifesto of the German Spartacists, a group the pair co-founded to incite a Marxist revol...
Mar 8, 1919 / Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Franz Mehring
The Transatlantic Telegraph Will Concentrate Money and Power in the Hands of the Few The Transatlantic Telegraph Will Concentrate Money and Power in the Hands of the Few
“Where it is all going to end, and what kind of life the ‘merchant of the future’ will lead, nobody knows.”
Sep 27, 1866 / Richard Kreitner