Dispatch From Germany Dispatch From Germany

I came across a sign the other day, inelegantly scrawled on cardboard and stuck to a telephone pole. It read Fuck Bush.

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Paul Hockenos

Dispatch From Spain Dispatch From Spain

The Spanish capital took on the air of a battle zone the weekend after the war began, as antiwar protesters clashed with riot police throughout the city.

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Samuel Loewenberg

The Rockets’ Red Glare The Rockets’ Red Glare

The fierce tableau of smoke and flames that US bombs created over Baghdad--a visual message of America's awesomely destructive power--brought to mind Shelley's meditation on an...

Mar 27, 2003 / The Editors

With the Kurds With the Kurds

I'm standing at the northern front in Chamchamal, a quarter-mile from Saddam Hussein's hilltop divisions. Before me six mounds of earth, like oversized anthills, line the ridge...

Mar 27, 2003 / Eliza Griswold

Chickens in a Darkening Sky Chickens in a Darkening Sky

Suddenly the sky is dark with chickens coming home to roost, and bedtime reading is Thucydides' account of the disastrous Athenian siege of Syracuse.

Mar 27, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Dispatch From Britain Dispatch From Britain

The night the war began, an ashen-faced woman in Parliament Square held up a photograph of an Iraqi soldier, reduced to a smudge of carbon but for his head and feet--an image f...

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Maria Margaronis

The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda

The Bush Administration's plan to keep several hundred thousand US and British troops for years in a divided, heavily armed Muslim country will make all Americans "targets of opp...

Mar 25, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

Keeping Hope Alive Keeping Hope Alive

You can be forgiven if, like me, you were a bit depressed to hear that the war had started. But this is no time to go into a funk.

Mar 25, 2003 / William D. Hartung

Postcards From New York Postcards From New York

Among the approximately 150,000 people who took to the streets of New York on March 22 to protest the US invasion of Iraq were six Nation interns.