Dispatch From Russia Dispatch From Russia

A few hours after the United States launched its first missile attack against Baghdad, I spoke to 400 students and faculty at Moscow's largest university of commerce and econom...

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Dispatch From France Dispatch From France

Following the first attack at 3 am French time, the morning papers were ready with generic "War Is Here" headlines, accompanied by full-page images of dark skies.

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Mark Cramer

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

Dispatch From China Dispatch From China

The pedicab driver stretched out in the passenger seat, his legs thrown over the bicycle seat, half dozing and half listening to the latest news updates in the hours after Amer...

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Jen Lin-Liu

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 Israel Dispatch From Israel

As I was driving home from work late Wednesday night, it became clear that the assault would begin within hours.

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Neve Gordon

Dispatch From Philippines Dispatch From Philippines

Walden Bello was in Baghdad March 14-17 as a member of the Asian Peace Mission, a delegation of parliamentarians and members of civil society from different countries in Asia.

Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Walden Bello

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.