The Fear Factor The Fear Factor
George Bush's speech from Cincinnati was calm, composed, reasonable--a studied performance calculated to win plaudits from the punditry and the consent of Congress to an Iraq r...
Oct 10, 2002 / The Editors
Peace Gets a Chance Peace Gets a Chance
"You look beautiful," shouted more than one speaker to the crowd that gathered in New York's Central Park on Sunday, October 6, to protest George W.
Oct 10, 2002 / Liza Featherstone
US Double Standards US Double Standards
The effort by the Bush Administration and Congress to portray the planned invasion of Iraq as simply an effort to enforce United Nations Security Council resolutions reaches a ...
Oct 10, 2002 / Stephen Zunes
Blood for Oil Blood for Oil
In May 2001, the White House issued a National Energy Policy report, known as the Cheney Report: the state of our national oil reserves. In 2000, half the oil we consumed was impor...
Oct 10, 2002 / Gore Vidal
The Dangerous Restaurant The Dangerous Restaurant
I was having dinner at a rather expensive restaurant the other night when a man I'd never met before threatened to kill me. He was a distinguished-looking fellow, dressed in a ...
Oct 10, 2002 / Wallace Shawn
Dems Roll Over, Film at 11 Dems Roll Over, Film at 11
As in a paranoid novel by Don DeLillo, it all comes together in the end. The Democrats can't stand up to Bush on Iraq because they're afraid of looking soft on terrorism and Sa...
Oct 10, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Truth on Iraq Seeps Through Truth on Iraq Seeps Through
In a speech intended to frighten the American people into supporting a war, the President Monday again trotted out his grim depiction of Saddam Hussein as a terrifying boogeyman ...
Oct 8, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Graham Greene, Roll Over Graham Greene, Roll Over
A few months ago, novelist Alan Furst, in one of those New York Times "Writers on Writing" pieces, told how, on a magazine assignment to the Soviet Union back in 1983, he sudde...
Oct 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Peter Schrag
Blair, the Go-Between Blair, the Go-Between
When Tony Blair rose to address a packed House of Commons on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, Albert Finney had just won an Emmy for his performance as Winston Chu...
Oct 3, 2002 / Maria Margaronis
War Plans and Pitfalls War Plans and Pitfalls
The arrangements are in place. What's missing is any sense they could go awry.
Oct 3, 2002 / Feature / Michael T. Klare