Mission to Caracas Mission to Caracas
Hugo Chávez's critics may mock his ideas of twenty-first-century socialism as empty rhetoric. But maybe it's magical realism--still a fiction, but one to be nourished as a r...
Feb 14, 2007 / Victor Navasky
Thelma and Louise Imperialism Thelma and Louise Imperialism
Are Bush and Cheney so wedded to their delusions that they might gun the car and head directly over the cliff in a confrontation with Iran?
Feb 14, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt
Feith-Libby Lies Exposed Feith-Libby Lies Exposed
A new Pentagon report documents how the Bush Administration fooled us once with lies about Iraq's Al Qaeda ties. Will that keep them from fooling us again on Iran?
Feb 13, 2007 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
In Gaza, Circles of Hell In Gaza, Circles of Hell
Dante's circles of hell provide an apt metaphor for the Palestinian experience in Gaza. And it can only get worse.
Feb 12, 2007 / Feature / Jen Marlowe
Will China Choke on US Dollars? Will China Choke on US Dollars?
China is losing its taste for lending the United States money that finances our wars, props up our dollar and shores up our credit.
Feb 6, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Bloggers Against Torture Bloggers Against Torture
In Egypt, bloggers have cracked into a tightly sealed state monopoly on information dissemination.
Feb 6, 2007 / Feature / Negar Azimi
Blowback in Lebanon Blowback in Lebanon
One big and underreported reason for Lebanon's slide toward civil war is blowback from Iraq. Fearing the sectarian bloodbath in Iraq and Iran's growing regional influence, Lebanese...
Jan 31, 2007 / Feature / Mohamad Bazzi
Obama’s Ruined Homeland Obama’s Ruined Homeland
In Kenya's Yala Swamp, where Senator Barack Obama traces his African roots, an Oklahoma-based company has wrecked a rich and delicate ecosystem.
Jan 31, 2007 / Feature / Laura Flanders
Korea-US Trade Pact Headed for Trouble Korea-US Trade Pact Headed for Trouble
South Korea is bristling over terms of the Bush Administration's proposed free-trade agreement, and so are progressives in Congress.
Jan 27, 2007 / Feature / Mark Winne
Bombay Confidential Bombay Confidential
Vikram Chandra's epic crime novel Sacred Games is an infernal history of India in the last decade.
Jan 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley