Block ‘Mobile Chernobyl’ Block ‘Mobile Chernobyl’
If the nuclear industry gets its way, thousands of tons of deadly radioactive waste will roll onto public roads and rail lines, bound for a geologically unstable storage site ...
Jan 21, 1999 / Karen Charman
Media Starvation Diet Media Starvation Diet
All during the year 1984, those of us with firsthand experience in Africa knew that drought and famine were cutting across vast swaths of the continent.
Jan 21, 1999 / Books & the Arts / James North
Colombia’s Best Chance Colombia’s Best Chance
Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.
Jan 21, 1999 / Ana Carrigan
Cowardice on Cuba Cowardice on Cuba
"Did you hear? Clinton is beginning to lift the embargo. It's on the news," a fellow traveler to Cuba exclaimed in Havana's José Martí International Airport.
Jan 14, 1999 / Peter Kornbluh
Help Russia Help Russia
A fateful crossroads in American-Russian relations is being obscured by Bill Clinton's impeachment and war against Iraq.
Dec 24, 1998 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen
The Euroleft, or, Who’s Afraid of Tina? The Euroleft, or, Who’s Afraid of Tina?
Europe, you are rightly told, is swinging to the left. In thirteen of the fifteen countries making up the European Union, the Social Democrats are now in office.
Dec 24, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Bombing of Iraq The Bombing of Iraq
Regardless of its domestic implications, Operation Desert Fox is a spectacular but dangerous gesture, a smokescreen to cover for the lack of a comprehensible or workable policy tow...
Dec 17, 1998 / The Editors
Close, But No Cigar Close, But No Cigar
On August 20 last, President Clinton personally ordered the leveling of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant on the outskirts of Khartoum.
Oct 5, 1998 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
The Harvard Boys Do Russia The Harvard Boys Do Russia
After seven years of economic “reform” financed by billions of dollars in U.S.
May 14, 1998 / Feature / Janine R. Wedel
The Gift of Time The Gift of Time
The case for abolition of nuclear weapons.
Feb 2, 1998 / Jonathan Schell