Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
A Vesuvius of violence has erupted from the dead center of American life, the executive branch of the government.
Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
What We Do Now What We Do Now
As the Bush Administration continues its illegal and unjust military invasion of Iraq, we must steel ourselves for the difficult days that lie ahead.
Apr 3, 2003 / Feature / David Cortright
Response 1 Response 1
David Cortright has laid out many aspects of an agenda to help the US peace movement move from the immediate work of trying to stop this war, to continuing to broaden the reach...
Apr 3, 2003 / Feature / Phyllis Bennis and John Cavanagh
Response 2 Response 2
The war is just two weeks old, yet the Bush Administration has accomplished the unprecedented isolation of the United States worldwide, even from several of its historic allies...
Apr 3, 2003 / Feature / Bill Fletcher Jr.
Response 3 Response 3
Ifind David Cortright's call useful but limiting. The most exciting aspect of the antiwar organizing has been its global reach.
Apr 3, 2003 / Feature / Medea Benjamin
The Rockets’ Red Glare The Rockets’ Red Glare
The fierce tableau of smoke and flames that US bombs created over Baghdad--a visual message of America's awesomely destructive power--brought to mind Shelley's meditation on an...
Mar 27, 2003 / The Editors
With the Kurds With the Kurds
I'm standing at the northern front in Chamchamal, a quarter-mile from Saddam Hussein's hilltop divisions. Before me six mounds of earth, like oversized anthills, line the ridge...
Mar 27, 2003 / Eliza Griswold
Chickens in a Darkening Sky Chickens in a Darkening Sky
Suddenly the sky is dark with chickens coming home to roost, and bedtime reading is Thucydides' account of the disastrous Athenian siege of Syracuse.
Mar 27, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Keeping Hope Alive Keeping Hope Alive
You can be forgiven if, like me, you were a bit depressed to hear that the war had started. But this is no time to go into a funk.
Mar 25, 2003 / William D. Hartung
The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda
The Bush Administration's plan to keep several hundred thousand US and British troops for years in a divided, heavily armed Muslim country will make all Americans "targets of opp...
Mar 25, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer