Dispatch From India Dispatch From India
The Indian public has long been suspicious of the US arguments for military action against Iraq and the legitimacy of any "regime change" executed by a superpower with imperial...
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Praful Bidwai
Dispatch From Germany Dispatch From Germany
I came across a sign the other day, inelegantly scrawled on cardboard and stuck to a telephone pole. It read Fuck Bush.
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Paul Hockenos
Dispatch From Spain Dispatch From Spain
The Spanish capital took on the air of a battle zone the weekend after the war began, as antiwar protesters clashed with riot police throughout the city.
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Samuel Loewenberg
With the Kurds With the Kurds
I'm standing at the northern front in Chamchamal, a quarter-mile from Saddam Hussein's hilltop divisions. Before me six mounds of earth, like oversized anthills, line the ridge...
Mar 27, 2003 / Eliza Griswold
Dispatch From Britain Dispatch From Britain
The night the war began, an ashen-faced woman in Parliament Square held up a photograph of an Iraqi soldier, reduced to a smudge of carbon but for his head and feet--an image f...
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
Dispatch From Vietnam Dispatch From Vietnam
In this country, where a US military attack echoes more loudly perhaps than anywhere else in the world, protesters against the war are expressing themselves from Hanoi in the n...
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Peter Davis
The Rockets’ Red Glare The Rockets’ Red Glare
The fierce tableau of smoke and flames that US bombs created over Baghdad--a visual message of America's awesomely destructive power--brought to mind Shelley's meditation on an...
Mar 27, 2003 / The Editors
Dispatch From Russia Dispatch From Russia
A few hours after the United States launched its first missile attack against Baghdad, I spoke to 400 students and faculty at Moscow's largest university of commerce and econom...
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Keeping Hope Alive Keeping Hope Alive
You can be forgiven if, like me, you were a bit depressed to hear that the war had started. But this is no time to go into a funk.
Mar 25, 2003 / William D. Hartung
The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda
The Bush Administration's plan to keep several hundred thousand US and British troops for years in a divided, heavily armed Muslim country will make all Americans "targets of opp...
Mar 25, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer