The Al Qaeda Connection The Al Qaeda Connection
While the Bush Administration looks to the weapons inspection process in Iraq to turn up a material breach worthy of war, hawks in and out of government have been making a separ...
Dec 18, 2002 / Feature / Peter Bergen
Occupation Blues Occupation Blues
While Israel's decisive victories on the battlefield and overwhelming advantage in military force are crucial to its dominance in the Middle East, perhaps just as important is ...
Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert Jensen
Oil, Iraq and America Oil, Iraq and America
For more from Hiro on Iraq, read Iraq: In the Eye of the Storm, a short, lucid primer recently published by NationBooks.
Dec 16, 2002 / Feature / Dilip Hiro
Show-and-Tell Time Show-and-Tell Time
For a brief moment one could almost believe that the US march toward war with Iraq had paused.
Dec 12, 2002 / The Editors
Iraq After D-Day: The Cordesman Memo Iraq After D-Day: The Cordesman Memo
Napoleon would sketch out in an afternoon the new constitution and legal arrangements for one of France's imperial conquests.
Dec 12, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The US Caged–For Now The US Caged–For Now
Alfred Hitchcock was fond of McGuffins--meaningless plot devices on which the characters obsess while the real, gruesome story moves on elsewhere.
Dec 5, 2002 / Ian Williams
Censorship 101 Censorship 101
Annals of Higher Education: If recent events at Stanford and Harvard are any indication, the past decade's earnest debates over "political correctness" are over, replaced by ro...
Dec 5, 2002 / Bruce Shapiro
As Miss World Turns As Miss World Turns
The war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women's bodies.
Dec 5, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Inspections: The White House Fallback Position Inspections: The White House Fallback Position
If nothing shows in spyplane pics And Blix finds nothing in the sticks, That still won't put us in a fix. We'll blame it on Iraqi tricks,
Nov 26, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letter From Chile Letter From Chile
Neoliberalism has produced an eco-crisis.
Nov 26, 2002 / Feature / Jimmy Langman