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Afghanistan. By Angus Hamilton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $5 net.

Oct 11, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

Letter From Berlin Letter From Berlin

The Green Party is in the throes of a crisis that threatens its very existence.

Oct 11, 2001 / Feature / Paul Hockenos

The Limits of War The Limits of War

The war in Afghanistan, coming after the atrocities of September 11, provokes a welter of contradictory emotions. On the one side, a desire for justice and a yearning for security...

Oct 11, 2001 / The Editors

Dry Up the Pools of Discontent Dry Up the Pools of Discontent

The bombing part is easy. Not of course on the civilians, the "collateral damage" likely to be killed in unseemly large numbers, as they were during the Gulf War.

Oct 10, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer

Kabul’s Health Apartheid Kabul’s Health Apartheid

On September 6, Afghanistan's Taliban extremists ordered all hospitals in the capital city of Kabul to partly or completely suspend medical services to women.

Oct 4, 2001 / Max Block

Kabul’s Patriarchy With Guns Kabul’s Patriarchy With Guns

The capture by Taliban guerrillas of the Afghan capital, Kabul, however short- or long-lived, has come after two years of one of the most obnoxious interventions by one state in t...

Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Fred Halliday

Where Are the Women? Where Are the Women?

Are there any people on earth more wretched than the women of Afghanistan? As if poverty, hunger, disease, drought, ruined cities and a huge refugee crisis weren't bad enou...

Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Pakistan, the Taliban and the US Pakistan, the Taliban and the US

If Islamabad heeds Washington's war demands, it risks internal revolt.

Sep 20, 2001 / Feature / Ahmed Rashid

A Political Solution Is Required A Political Solution Is Required

While the US looks upon Pakistan for help in its new 'war on terror,' lessons from the past teach us that the alliance can have sinister repercussions.

Sep 17, 2001 / Tariq Ali

Israel: Into the Abyss Israel: Into the Abyss

Ariel Sharon's government is failing to use nonviolent approaches in its confrontation with the Palestinians.

Sep 6, 2001 / Neve Gordon

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