Kabul’s Patriarchy With Guns Kabul’s Patriarchy With Guns
The capture by Taliban guerrillas of the Afghan capital, Kabul, however short- or long-lived, has come after two years of one of the most obnoxious interventions by one state in t...
Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Fred Halliday
Letter From Ground Zero: October 4, 2001 Letter From Ground Zero: October 4, 2001
Our own ‘phony war.’
Oct 4, 2001 / Jonathan Schell
A Peaceful Justice? A Peaceful Justice?
"We need to make it very clear," said one veteran activist at a recent meeting of a nascent New York City antiwar coalition, "that we want to punish the criminals." She meant, of ...
Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Where Are the Women? Where Are the Women?
Are there any people on earth more wretched than the women of Afghanistan? As if poverty, hunger, disease, drought, ruined cities and a huge refugee crisis weren't bad enou...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
‘Manifest Duplicity’ ‘Manifest Duplicity’
Some Sundays back, the New York Times fronted a story from its Paris correspondent, Suzanne Daley, about the fear and loathing Americans induce among Europeans these days.
Oct 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
Dispatches Dispatches
The events of September 11, viewed from abroad.
Sep 27, 2001 / Feature / Praful Bidwai, Maria Margaronis, Graham Usher, Mark Gevisser, Ahmed Rashid, and Ana Uzelac
Blowback Blowback
US actions abroad have repeatedly led to unintended, indefensible consequences.
Sep 27, 2001 / Feature / Chalmers Johnson
Paradise Lost Paradise Lost
Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rolling in the fiery Gulf Confounde...
Sep 27, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Pakistan, the Taliban and the US Pakistan, the Taliban and the US
If Islamabad heeds Washington's war demands, it risks internal revolt.
Sep 20, 2001 / Feature / Ahmed Rashid
A Political Solution Is Required A Political Solution Is Required
While the US looks upon Pakistan for help in its new 'war on terror,' lessons from the past teach us that the alliance can have sinister repercussions.
Sep 17, 2001 / Tariq Ali