War and Peace

Defining a Just War Defining a Just War

Ends and means.

Oct 11, 2001 / Feature / Richard Falk

Letter From Ground Zero: October 11, 2001 Letter From Ground Zero: October 11, 2001

Annihilation and the Ways of Peace

Oct 11, 2001 / Jonathan Schell

The Limits of War The Limits of War

The war in Afghanistan, coming after the atrocities of September 11, provokes a welter of contradictory emotions. On the one side, a desire for justice and a yearning for security...

Oct 11, 2001 / The Editors

New War, Old Weapons New War, Old Weapons

President Bush has stated that his global campaign against terrorism will be a "new kind of war," in which traditional military approaches will give way to a more innovative mix o...

Oct 11, 2001 / William D. Hartung

Dry Up the Pools of Discontent Dry Up the Pools of Discontent

The bombing part is easy. Not of course on the civilians, the "collateral damage" likely to be killed in unseemly large numbers, as they were during the Gulf War.

Oct 10, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer

A Peaceful Justice? A Peaceful Justice?

"We need to make it very clear," said one veteran activist at a recent meeting of a nascent New York City antiwar coalition, "that we want to punish the criminals." She meant, of ...

Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Liza Featherstone

Letter From Ground Zero: October 4, 2001 Letter From Ground Zero: October 4, 2001

Our own ‘phony war.’

Oct 4, 2001 / Jonathan Schell

Blowback Blowback

US actions abroad have repeatedly led to unintended, indefensible consequences.

Sep 27, 2001 / Feature / Chalmers Johnson

Paradise Lost Paradise Lost

Nine times the Space that measures Day       and Night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rolling in the fiery Gulf Confounde...

Sep 27, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Game Over

Game Over Game Over

The attacks on the Twin Towers show us an ugly truth too long believed in: that of the safe, antiseptic war.

Sep 17, 2001 / Naomi Klein

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