US Wars and Military Action

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Black Hawk Downer

Feb 7, 2002 / Michael Massing

POWs in Legal Limbo POWs in Legal Limbo

It's safe to assume that the 150 or so Al Qaeda and Taliban militiamen now occupying those 6-by-8-foot cages in Guantánamo Bay are not sympathetic characters. It's also re...

Feb 7, 2002 / Bruce Shapiro

Victory for Viet Vets Victory for Viet Vets

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Jan 31, 2002 / Peter Montague and Maria B. Pellerano

Bound and Gagged Bound and Gagged

The first thing they do is cover your eyes. They make you strip to make sure you're not carrying anything. They replace your clothes with uniforms that are not clothes at all.

Jan 24, 2002 / Feature / Charles Glass

Grief Without Portraits Grief Without Portraits

On December 10, Marc Herold, a professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire, released a report about civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Relying on news accounts fro...

Jan 17, 2002 / Michael Massing

South Asia at the Brink South Asia at the Brink

India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who gathered here with the leaders of the other five South Asian countries for a summit meeting ...

Jan 10, 2002 / Kanak Mani Dixit

Egyptian Justice, US-Style Egyptian Justice, US-Style

President Hosni Mubarak is quite happy that the United States has decided to try civilian terrorist suspects in military courts. For ten years, Egypt has been taking fire from the ...

Jan 10, 2002 / Steve Negus

Tribunal Injustice Tribunal Injustice

The regulations proposed to implement George W. Bush's order establishing military commissions for the trial of "international terrorists" are mere window dressing and will not c...

Jan 3, 2002 / Herman Schwartz

Letter From Ground Zero: December 20, 2001 Letter From Ground Zero: December 20, 2001

As the Taliban retreat in Afghanistan, the Bush administration has ample opportunity to expand its far-reaching ‘war on terror.’

Dec 20, 2001 / Jonathan Schell

More Juice? More Juice?

What plagued the O.J. Simpson trial—corruption, malfeasance and a breakdown of the rule of law—is exactly what the 'war on terror' is achieving in its blind que...

Dec 7, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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