Lying in State Lying in State
How cool is Jennifer Harbury? She is currently arguing her own case before the Supreme Court, demanding the right to sue the government because, she maintains, its leaders delibe...
Apr 4, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
Twenty Years On Twenty Years On
Here we are, twenty years on, and the reports of the Israeli army smashing its way through Palestinian towns remind me of what came out of Lebanon as Sharon and his invading army...
Apr 4, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Road Not Yet Taken The Road Not Yet Taken
Even as the Middle East plunged deeper into the maelstrom of fear, hatred, violence and despair, recent diplomatic developments, ironically, made the conditions for achieving peac...
Apr 4, 2002 / The Editors
Two Middle East Wars Two Middle East Wars
Two Palestinian-Israeli wars have erupted in this region. One is the Palestinian nation's war for its freedom from occupation and for its right to independent statehood. Any decen...
Apr 4, 2002 / Amos Oz
Letter From Somaliland Letter From Somaliland
Muslim "fundamentalists" are often people from the striving middle class.
Apr 4, 2002 / Feature / George Packer
Bush Fiddled While Mideast Burned Bush Fiddled While Mideast Burned
There is enough blame to go around for the events that have turned the Camp David promise of peace into the killing fields of the Mideast without dragging in President Bush.
Apr 2, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Peace And Nuclear Disarmament: A Call To Action Peace And Nuclear Disarmament: A Call To Action
"... Come my friends,
'tis not too late to seek
a newer world, ..."Apr 1, 2002 / Dennis Kucinich
Free Trade Bush’s Way Free Trade Bush’s Way
On the eve of George W. Bush's recent tour of Latin America, Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes equated the advantages of a global free market with the peaks of the Himalayas, characte...
Mar 28, 2002 / Marc Cooper
Endangering US Security Endangering US Security
Barely six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin became the Bush Administration's most valuable ally in the war against terrorism in Afghanistan, the promise of a historic...
Mar 28, 2002 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen
The US & the Mideast The US & the Mideast
What was originally billed as Dick Cheney's mission to recruit Arab nations' support for ousting Saddam Hussein became a lecture tour on the urgency of dealing with the Israeli-Pa...
Mar 21, 2002 / The Editors