Holocaust Accounting Holocaust Accounting
The saga of the gold looted by the Nazis and concealed or converted by greedy neutrals is very far from finished.
Feb 25, 1999 / Daniel Singer
Block ‘Mobile Chernobyl’ Block ‘Mobile Chernobyl’
If the nuclear industry gets its way, thousands of tons of deadly radioactive waste will roll onto public roads and rail lines, bound for a geologically unstable storage site ...
Jan 21, 1999 / Karen Charman
The Bombing of Iraq The Bombing of Iraq
Regardless of its domestic implications, Operation Desert Fox is a spectacular but dangerous gesture, a smokescreen to cover for the lack of a comprehensible or workable policy tow...
Dec 17, 1998 / The Editors
Close, But No Cigar Close, But No Cigar
On August 20 last, President Clinton personally ordered the leveling of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant on the outskirts of Khartoum.
Oct 5, 1998 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
The Gift of Time The Gift of Time
The case for abolition of nuclear weapons.
Feb 2, 1998 / Jonathan Schell
Very Civil Disobedience Very Civil Disobedience
Whatever the ultimate effect last week's mammoth disarmament rally in New York City will have on the prospects for world peace, it did much to rehabilitate the idea of peaceful p...
Jan 2, 1998 / The Editors
A Deserter From Death A Deserter From Death
One of the first signs of old age, I'm told, is when a young woman offers you her seat on a bus (and the next stage, presumably, is when you accept it).
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The End of History The End of History
In 1996, Gore Vidal narrated his debacle defending the programs he wrote for the History Channel, which dealt with on the imperial aspects latent in the American presidency, to a p...
Sep 30, 1996 / Gore Vidal
Mythologizing the Bomb Mythologizing the Bomb
The beauty of the atomic scientists' calculations hid from them the truly Faustian contract they scratched their names to.
Aug 14, 1995 / E.L. Doctorow