What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA
Valerie Plame was no mere analyst or paper-pusher at the CIA. She was an operations officer working on a top priority of the Bush Administration: searching out intelligence on Iraq...
Sep 6, 2006 / Feature / David Corn
Rocky Anderson, Folk Hero? Rocky Anderson, Folk Hero?
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's cachet is growing in the wake of a stem-winding speech in which he called the President to account for lies and ineptitude in Irag, castigated...
Sep 1, 2006 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Challenging the Culture of Obedience Challenging the Culture of Obedience
Through lies, ineptitude and immoral policies, the Bush Administration has led the nation to the brink of disaster, ruined our reputation and sowed hatred that will take generation...
Sep 1, 2006 / Ross C. Anderson
Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation
Egypt has been deprived of its greatest living writer, and the world has lost one of its most humane literary figures.
Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami
The Chinese Evolution The Chinese Evolution
Three new books on China invite the West to give up simplistic dreams and nightmares and come to terms with a complex and rapidly evolving authoritarian state.
Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Let’s Dance Let’s Dance
In Tango: The Art History of Love, Robert Thompson traces the dance's roots in Afro-Argentine history. Tomas Eloy Martínez's The Tango Singer appropriates its music to explo...
Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
Writers From the Other Asia Writers From the Other Asia
Four new books explore Korea's cold war hangover and the indelible mark left by its North-South division.
Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / John Feffer
Israel Lobby Watch Israel Lobby Watch
The Human Rights Watch reports that were sharply critical of Israel's killing of civilians in Lebanon represent the latest battle for Jewish hearts and minds in the ideological war...
Aug 31, 2006 / Philip Weiss
Lebanon: Resolve in the Ruins Lebanon: Resolve in the Ruins
As people in Southern Lebanon return to claim the dead and clear the rubble from villages ravaged in the recent fighting, it is clear that the battle for hearts and minds is being ...
Aug 29, 2006 / Feature / David Enders
Pay To Be Saved Pay To Be Saved
Unless something changes soon, New Orleans will prove to be a glimpse of a dystopic future, a future of disaster apartheid in which the wealthy are saved and everyone else is left ...
Aug 29, 2006 / Feature / Naomi Klein