An Entire Class of Thieves An Entire Class of Thieves
When Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose back in 1986 Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan raced each other to show the world who could punish the poor quickest and hardest.
Sep 19, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
The Tenth Crusade The Tenth Crusade
Amid the elegies for the dead and the ceremonies of remembrance, seditious questions intrude: Is there really a war on terror; and if one is indeed being waged, what are its ob...
Sep 5, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Sour Thoughts for Dog Days Sour Thoughts for Dog Days
Let's start with Cynthia McKinney. Don't you think that if Arab-American or African-American groups targeted an incumbent white, liberal, maybe Jewish, congressperson, and ship...
Aug 15, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
The Hog Wallow The Hog Wallow
When did the great executive stock option hog wallow really start? You can go back to the deregulatory push under Carter in the late 1970s, then move into the Reagan '80s, when...
Jul 18, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Death, Juries and Scalia Death, Juries and Scalia
Amid all the recent assaults on the Bill of Rights, including the latest trashing in the USA Patriot Act and the denial of habeas corpus to citizens, amid all this, in the span...
Jun 27, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Terrorism as Normalcy Terrorism as Normalcy
Gangbangers with dirty bombs! Now we're talking. The big news about the latest suspected terror bomber is not that he now calls himself Al Muhajir but that he was formerly Jos&...
Jun 13, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
The Future Wellstone Deserves The Future Wellstone Deserves
Greens running against Democrats, and maybe giving Republicans the edge? Anyone who thinks we'll have to wait till the Bush-Gore rematch in 2004 to get into that can of worms h...
May 30, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’ Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’
Right in the wake of House majority leader Dick Armey's explicit call for several million Palestinians to be booted out of the West Bank, and East Jerusalem and Gaza as well, c...
May 16, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Extreme Solutions Extreme Solutions
Extreme Solution I: Priests The old movies used to feature a priest walking alongside the condemned man toward the scaffold, offering last seconds of comfort, plea-barga...
May 2, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
The Loneliest Road The Loneliest Road
Late in the evening in back-road America you tend to pick the motels with a few cars parked in front of the rooms. There's nothing less appealing than an empty courtyard, with ma...
Apr 18, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn