Nation Topics - George Shultz | The Nation

The nuclear abolition documentary Countdown to Zero is not just a howl of alarm or a historical primer. It's a shocking but completely reliable account of the issue of nuclear weapons as it exists today.

A wide-ranging Nation interview with the former Soviet president.

Tom Dine, for thirteen years head of AIPAC, now works for a two-state solution and on improving US-Syrian relations.

Making a list of the most hated arch-criminals--not the usual suspects.

During the cold war, the driving force was the bilateral arms race; now it's proliferation.

Ave atque vale, Aquarius.

With the "war on terror" now official nomenclature, the
problematic conflating of ethnic, religious and "terrorist" identities
is now a matter of policy as well as media distortion. In a 1986 book
review, Edward Said argues presciently against the
dangerous "terrorism craze"--"dangerous because it consolidates the
immense, unrestrained pseudopatriotic narcissism we are nourishing."

Official dishonesty is never worthwhile.

A call to global activists meeting in India.

New documents detail how Rumsfeld and Reagan let Iraq know it was just fine to keep using chemical weapons against Iran and the Kurds.