Interview with a Drowning President, Kiribati’s Anote Tong Interview with a Drowning President, Kiribati’s Anote Tong
Kiribati's President, Anote Tong, speaks about the struggles faced by climate refugees, solidarity within his country and getting the international community's attention.
Oct 1, 2010 / David Helvarg
Jeremy Scahill Gets a Shoutout on the Colbert Report Jeremy Scahill Gets a Shoutout on the Colbert Report
Despite what McCain thinks, the US military doesn't always do things according to official policy. Stephen Colbert knows that, and so does Jeremy Scahill.
Oct 1, 2010 / Press Room
Crisis in Pakistan: Possible Army Coup in Works, as US and Pakistan Clash Crisis in Pakistan: Possible Army Coup in Works, as US and Pakistan Clash
Playing its trump card, Pakistan has shut down a supply route for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Oct 1, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
The War Addicts The War Addicts
Are the Pentagon and US military high command addicted not to victory, but to the state of war itself?
Sep 30, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt
Netanyahu’s Freeze Scam Netanyahu’s Freeze Scam
What did Benjamin Netanyahu mean when he said he and Mahmoud Abbas should be prepared to make "painful concessions" for the sake of peace?
Sep 30, 2010 / Henry Siegman
Is Obama’s Use of State Secrets Privilege the New Normal? Is Obama’s Use of State Secrets Privilege the New Normal?
The Obama administration has invoked the state secrets privilege for the second time in less than a month—this time in an effort to shut down discussion of the targeted kil...
Sep 29, 2010 / Ryan Devereaux
Questioning the Cycle of War Questioning the Cycle of War
In our longest war, we have yet to even begin to grapple with the whys of war and the what-war-really-is questions.
Sep 29, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Petraeus Cites Karzai-Taliban Peace Talks, While American Troops Escalate War Petraeus Cites Karzai-Taliban Peace Talks, While American Troops Escalate War
US forces step up bombing of Pakistan and threaten cross-border ground attacks, and launch offensive in three districts around Kandahar
Sep 28, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Fatima Bhutto’s Search for Justice Fatima Bhutto’s Search for Justice
Fatima Bhutto, standing where her father was killed by police in Pakistan, on how her memoir was the only way to seek justice for the violence done to her family.
Sep 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Michelle Bachelet, New Head of UN Women: Where There Is Poverty, ‘the State Cannot Be Neutral’ Michelle Bachelet, New Head of UN Women: Where There Is Poverty, ‘the State Cannot Be Neutral’
The choice of former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet to head the new United Nations agency for women may be the most important and smartest appointment Ban Ki-moon makes in his...
Sep 27, 2010 / Barbara Crossette