Articles

The Spirit of Seattle Today The Spirit of Seattle Today

From the "water wars" of Latin America and South Africa to the battle against corporate takeover of agriculture, the revolt that began ten years ago lives on.

Nov 30, 2009 / Feature / Anuradha Mittal

Tiger Woods Deserves Your Scrutiny Tiger Woods Deserves Your Scrutiny

When the golfer makes deals with dictatorships and unaccountable corporations, all in the name of his billion-dollar brand, he deserves no privacy.

Nov 30, 2009 / Column / Dave Zirin

Chicago police remove the body of Fred Hampton

Prelude to a Murder Prelude to a Murder

The government's campaign to get Fred Hampton began long before it finally succeeded in killing him.

Nov 30, 2009 / Feature / L.F. Palmer, Jr.

Day of Action on Climate Crisis Day of Action on Climate Crisis

As world leaders start gathering next week in Copenhagen, the people hit hardest by the climate change crisis -- the global poor -- will continue to be systematically excluded from...

Nov 30, 2009 / Peter Rothberg

Tony Kushner on Climate Change Tony Kushner on Climate Change

Kushner speculates on why it's so hard as an artist to write meaningfully about climate change--and why policy change has come so slowly.

Nov 30, 2009 / The Nation Video

Ten Years After Battle of Seattle: Another World Is Necessary Ten Years After Battle of Seattle: Another World Is Necessary

Tens years to the day after "The Battle of Seattle" opened a new front in the epic struggle over global economic policy, one of the activists who took to the streets with the the ...

Nov 30, 2009 / John Nichols

Feint to Exit? Feint to Exit?

What's tragic about President Obama's decision to dispatch tens of thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan is that even the president knows, I am sure, that escalation won't...

Nov 30, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss

Military Escalation Will Harm Afghan People, US Interests Military Escalation Will Harm Afghan People, US Interests

"I know that Obama's election has brought great hopes to peace-loving people in the United States. But for Afghans, Obama's military buildup will only bring more suffering and dea...

Nov 29, 2009 / John Nichols

Around the Nation Around the Nation

Jeremy Scahill's important investigation into how Blackwater is working in Pakistan for the US military's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) made waves all over the world. Fro...

Nov 29, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Slacker Friday Slacker Friday

Here's Charles...

 

Nov 27, 2009 / Eric Alterman

x