Liberating Vieques Liberating Vieques
When George W. Bush announced from Sweden on June 14 that he planned to pull the US Navy out of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques by 2003, it struck some as odd when he referred ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Angelo Falcón
‘The Vietnam Syndrome’ ‘The Vietnam Syndrome’
The Kerrey revelations raise anew issues of morality and military power.
Jun 21, 2001 / Feature / Richard Falk
The AIDS Fund Fight The AIDS Fund Fight
Behind closed doors at the UN and in Western capitals, government and corporate officials are arguing over the size and governance of a fund that is going to be the primary interna...
Jun 21, 2001 / Feature / Robert Weissman
Elliott Abrams: It’s Back! Elliott Abrams: It’s Back!
"How would you feel if your wife and children were brutally raped before being hacked to death by soldiers during a military massacre of 800 civilians, and then two governments tr...
Jun 14, 2001 / David Corn
Europe Talks Back Europe Talks Back
George W. Bush's European trip came at a time when American policy-makers, who once dismissed the European Union for its weakness and indecision on the world stage, are worrying a...
Jun 14, 2001 / The Editors
Star Wars Foes Hit DC Star Wars Foes Hit DC
The two sisters from the Our Lady of Angels convent had driven down from Pennsylvania with a message for their Congressman: Say no to Star Wars. It was proving a tough sell.
Jun 13, 2001 / Feature / Matt Bivens
The New Nuclear Danger The New Nuclear Danger
Policies are more confused than at any time since the weapons were invented.
Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / Jonathan Schell
Russian Nuclear Roulette Russian Nuclear Roulette
A baccalaureate should be an occasion to celebrate the present and express optimism about the future, but I must come to you today with very bad news about Russia, my subject of s...
Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / Stephen F. Cohen
Blindness in Gaza Blindness in Gaza
The bombing of a Tel Aviv disco, in which twenty Israelis, many of them teenagers, were killed, was an atrocity of such horror that it seemed to shock both sides into taking steps...
Jun 7, 2001 / The Editors
We’re All Ears We’re All Ears
What sticks in my mind more than any particular accomplishment of the supersecret National Security Agency is its mammoth size. Only a few miles from my home, I now know, exists a...
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder