Chickens in a Darkening Sky Chickens in a Darkening Sky
Suddenly the sky is dark with chickens coming home to roost, and bedtime reading is Thucydides' account of the disastrous Athenian siege of Syracuse.
Mar 27, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
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
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
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
Postcards From New York Postcards From New York
Among the approximately 150,000 people who took to the streets of New York on March 22 to protest the US invasion of Iraq were six Nation interns.
Mar 25, 2003 / Feature / The Nation
The Big Lie The Big Lie
How bad can things get, how fast? Are we already at the point where literally nothing can derail the war machine?
Mar 20, 2003 / Russ Baker
War. What Is It Good For? War. What Is It Good For?
By the time you read this, the invasion of Iraq may have begun--or it may be over.
Mar 20, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Inside Baghdad Inside Baghdad
Iraqis, exhausted by years of sanctions and oppression, just want it all to end.
Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Seeking a New Globalism in Chiapas Seeking a New Globalism in Chiapas
Opponents of the neoliberal model are demanding a new social contract.
Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Frost at Foggy Bottom Frost at Foggy Bottom
Is the government's foreign policy apparatus a casualty of war? The recent resignations of two career State Department officials, who left to protest George W.
Mar 20, 2003 / David Corn