Total Information, Total Confusion Total Information, Total Confusion
So let's join Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Edward "Pete" Aldridge at a recent Pentagon press briefing, where he's addressing concerns a...
Nov 26, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
What Price Security? What Price Security?
Now, here's what the deal's supposed to be: In exchange for greater security you give up certain rights.
Nov 26, 2002 / The Editors
The Grubman The Grubman
The financial scandals continue to produce more outrageous revelations, but lately they come with lurid personal details more appropriate to bottom-dwelling tabloids than the W...
Nov 26, 2002 / William Greider
Quiet in Hollywood Quiet in Hollywood
The Quiet American, which recently opened for a two-week run in a couple of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, illustrates just how far Hollywood self-censorship has gone in...
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Rethinking the Movement Rethinking the Movement
As any casual observer of mega-bookstore shelves knows, the history of the modern civil rights movement is a well-studied field.
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Arnesen
Hunger USA Hunger USA
Tony Hall, just before leaving Congress in September, sat in his office in Longworth House Office Building and thought of something that had stuck with him since a trip to Appa...
Nov 26, 2002 / David Sarasohn
Mumia’s Appeal Mumia’s Appeal
Mumia's Appeal After decades of legal and political maneuvering, the twenty-year-old death-penalty case of black journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal is entering a critical stage.
Nov 26, 2002 / Dave Lindorff
Pentagon Hawks Take Wing Pentagon Hawks Take Wing
A new Defense Department spy office could politicize intelligence gathering.
Nov 26, 2002 / Feature / Jason Vest
Blacks and the Democratic Party Blacks and the Democratic Party
Voters felt devalued and heard no message, so many of them stayed home.
Nov 26, 2002 / Feature / Ron Walters