The Wide World of Torture The Wide World of Torture
Current discussions tend to trivialize acts that are not only immoral but illegal according to covenants the United States has signed.
Nov 8, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
The Left and the Just War The Left and the Just War
The left is getting itself tied up in knots about the Just War and the propriety of bombing Afghanistan. I suspect some are intimidated by laptop bombardiers and kindred bully bo...
Oct 25, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
The Crash The Crash
The new war on terror isn't going to be of much use in combating the present plunge in America's well-being. Well before the twin towers fell to earth the country was entering a ...
Oct 11, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
And Now for a Note of Good Cheer And Now for a Note of Good Cheer
I've been surprised, here in Petrolia, listening to some people say they're afraid. Afraid of what? I ask. Remember, even in the days when the imminent possibility of nuclear hol...
Sep 27, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Faceless Cowards? Faceless Cowards?
The September 11 terrorist attacks are already being spun by Washington to fit into its prearranged playbook—the usual language and the usual suspects are already being bandi...
Sep 13, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Hot Air Is Bad for Us Hot Air Is Bad for Us
The current uproar over the posture of the Bush Administration on global warming and, most recently, on power-plant emissions vividly illustrates the political hypocrisy an...
Aug 23, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
She Needed Fewer Friends She Needed Fewer Friends
Joe Pulitzer famously said, "A newspaper should have no friends." Looking at the massed ranks of America's elites attending Katharine Graham's funeral in Washington on July 23, i...
Jul 27, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
The People’s Power The People’s Power
Act I We're on the edge of the twentieth century and Mayor James Phelan of San Francisco concludes that without abundant water and electrical power San Francisco is stymie...
Jun 28, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Meet the Men Who Rule the World Meet the Men Who Rule the World
Where's the fashionable rendezvous for the World Secret Government? In the good old days when the Illuminati had a firm grip on things, it was wherever the Bilderbergers decided ...
Jun 14, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
The Left Taught Him How to Do It The Left Taught Him How to Do It
The leftists organizing in Vermont since the 1970s prepared the ground for James Jeffords's jump, and he never would have done it without them. In the 1970s and 1980s Democrats h...
May 31, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn