Watching What You Say
Tim Shorrock : How are AT&T, Sprint, MCI and other telecommunications giants cooperating with the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program?
Michael T. Klare addresses the nuclear dispute with Iran, Fred Block envisions a moral economy and Daniel Lazare reviews Todd Gitlin's The Intellectuals and the Flag.
Tim Shorrock : How are AT&T, Sprint, MCI and other telecommunications giants cooperating with the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program?
Fred Block : Progresssives must articulate a vision of a moral economy and a benevolent community that challenges the rhetoric of market fundamentalism.
: Democrats should see the panic over the DP World deal as an opportunity for a nervy rudder-turn and challenge the obsessive secrecy and toxic premises of Bush's national security policy.
Michael T. Klare
:
A peaceful resolution to the nuclear dispute with Iran is possible if
world leaders work to eliminate the obstacles to intelligent
compromise.
Pascale Bonnefoy
:
Michelle Bachelet has vowed Chile will be a different country by the
end of her four-year term. But she will likely be remembered more for
continuity than for change.
John Brady Kiesling : Worried about warrantless surveillance in America? Consider the eavesdropping scandal that is currently roiling Greece, enabled by Vodaphone.
Laila Lalami : In his newest novel The Last Friend, Tahar Ben Jelloun draws from his experiences as a writer and activist under Morocco's repressive monarchy.
Daniel Lazare
:
Todd Gitlin uses patriotism to wallop the radical left in The
Intellectuals and the Flag.
Peter Cowie : Federico Fellini: His Life And Work effaces nearly everything written about the great Italian director, offering a distinct critical analysis and an absorbing account of his private life.
Calvin Trillin
:
Turnabout is fair play when it's the terror card you're playing.
Patricia J. Williams : The Dubai flap is no surprise, considering Bush always promised to run America like a corporation--even if the corporation is Enron.
Eric Alterman : The right-wing hijacking of religion's public role in our political discourse is as undeniable as it is inappropriate, and represents one of liberalism's most serious problems.
William Greider : A Greenspan memoir will do fine in the marketplace. It is the kind of Important Book daughters buy for father's birthday. In the unlikely event Greenspan tells the truth, it would be a sensational bestseller.
Robert Scheer : With the Pentagon's inspector general suggesting criminal negligence in the killing of former NFL star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, it is time to demand Congressional hearings into the way the Bush Administration cynically spun the story to serve its political purposes at the expense of the truth.
Nicholas von Hoffman : Bush is using inflation to pay off the deficits incurred by his Administration, leaving future generations with more problems than just debt.
Cynthia Enloe : On this year's International Women's Day, antiwar feminists take note of how our society has become increasingly militarized as a cult of masculinity has tightened its grip on American politics.
Simon Maxwell Apter : The Corvallis City Council approved a resolution calling for American troops to come home from Iraq.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels