Why They Hated Gary Webb Why They Hated Gary Webb
Few spectacles in journalism in the mid-1990s were more disgusting than the slagging of Gary Webb in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
Dec 16, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Flawed Intelligence Bill Flawed Intelligence Bill
The debate held before Congress voted to reorganize the nation's intelligence agencies under the authority of an all-powerful intelligence czar was generally portrayed as a simpl...
Dec 16, 2004 / John Nichols
War Resisters Go North War Resisters Go North
Protests over the conduct of the Iraq war are mounting from what seems an unlikely place: the ranks of the military.
Dec 16, 2004 / Alisa Solomon
Operation Self-Destruction Operation Self-Destruction
This article, from the August 26, 1968, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on...
Dec 8, 2004 / Feature / Karl M. Purnell
Pakistan and the True WMD Threat Pakistan and the True WMD Threat
If it had been even a primitive nuclear weapon that hit the World Trade Center three years ago, hundreds of thousands of people would have died instead of fewer than 3,000, and t...
Dec 7, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
The War That Never Was The War That Never Was
As war threatened Europe in the 1930s, a physicist turned to a psychiatrist to help understand the impending violence.
Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding! Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!
No alien penetration or treachery of double agents has ever done nearly as much damage to the CIA as the infighting consequent upon the arrival of each new director, charged by h...
Dec 2, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Taking Liberties Taking Liberties
Attorney General John Ashcroft has never been one to hide his anger under a bushel.
Dec 2, 2004 / David Cole
Kerry and the Gift of Impunity Kerry and the Gift of Impunity
Click here to read Klein's "You Asked for my Evidence, Mr Ambassador. Here It Is. In Iraq, the US Does Eliminate Those Who Dare to Count the Dead," published in the Dec. 4, 2004 Gu...
Nov 24, 2004 / Column / Naomi Klein
Farewell, Colin Powell Farewell, Colin Powell
We need to say farewell to Colin Powell, Who should have long ago tossed in the towel. Instead he lent his good name to the team In vouching for its cockamamie scheme.
Nov 24, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin