Weighing a Just War, or Settling an Old Score? Weighing a Just War, or Settling an Old Score?
In a column from 2002, Robert Scheer takes a look back at the Bush Administrations's real motivation to go to war.
Aug 6, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
9/11: The Satire 9/11: The Satire
I don't know if it's some childhood image left over from Victory at Sea or from a book of pictures my uncle brought back from the service, but when I think about the war in the Pa...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hal Gelb
In Cold Type In Cold Type
It seems a long time ago that I stocked my pantry (pantry is a concept in Manhattan, not a reality) with two weeks' worth of emergency food (including powdered milk, an oddly c...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
The Rush to War The Rush to War
The American Constitution at the very beginning of the Republic sought above all to guard the country against reckless, ill-considered recourse to war. It required a declaratio...
Aug 1, 2002 / Richard Falk
Iraq Woos Its Neighbors Iraq Woos Its Neighbors
With the drumbeat for war on Iraq growing louder in Washington by the day, the latest United States-backed Iraqi opposition group--the Iraqi Military Alliance--was established ...
Aug 1, 2002 / Dilip Hiro
Macbeth in Mesopotamia Macbeth in Mesopotamia
Concerning the impending or perhaps imminent intervention in Iraq, we now inhabit a peculiar limbo, where the military options are known while the political and moral options are n...
Aug 1, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Israel, There and Here Israel, There and Here
Refugee camp invasions. Suicide bombers. House demolitions. Suicide bombers. Arrests of children, curfews, roadblocks, collective punishments, dropping one-ton bombs on densely...
Aug 1, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Brits and Drugs Brits and Drugs
"Tell me about the hash bars." "OK, what do you want to know?" "It's legal there, right?" "It's legal, but it ain't 100 percent legal."
Jul 31, 2002 / Feature / Stacey Butterfield
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Roane Carey has edited two collections of writings on the Middle East: The New Intifada (Verso, 2001) and The Other Israel (The New Press, 2002).
Jul 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Roane Carey
Bennett’s Pledge of Allegiance Bennett’s Pledge of Allegiance
Jul 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Marcus G. Raskin