Kosovo Waits Kosovo Waits
Branko Brudar smiles and tells the new war joke, while carefully placing the Turkish coffee pot on the small office hot plate. "Until when will the Serbs and Croats fight?" goes...
Jan 8, 1993 / Mariana Katzarova
The Continent Divided The Continent Divided
Nineteen ninety-three was to be a banner year for Europe. With the opening of the Single Market people would cross frontiers without visas and goods would flow unhindered by tari...
Jan 8, 1993 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Rebellion in Israel and the Territories The Rebellion in Israel and the Territories
The usual regulatory mechanisms of the mainstream U.S. media (aim: exclusion of troubling or potentially disruptive information, narcosis of population) processed the turmoil in th...
Jan 16, 1988 / Alexander Cockburn
The Right’s Chicago Trial The Right’s Chicago Trial
Alex on Oliver North’s “fascism with a human face” and the mysterious case of Ralph the Lobster.
Aug 1, 1987 / Alexander Cockburn
Requiem for the American Empire Requiem for the American Empire
“Empires are restless organisms. They must constantly renew themselves; should an empire start leaking energy, it will die.”
Jan 11, 1986 / Gore Vidal
A Spartacan Manifesto A Spartacan Manifesto
Shortly after the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, The Nation published the manifesto of the German Spartacists, a group the pair co-founded to incite a Marxist revol...
Mar 8, 1919 / Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Franz Mehring