Unsigning the ICC Unsigning the ICC
History will record April 11, 2002, as a day of enormous significance in the effort to achieve the rule of law in the conduct of international affairs. It marks the day the Treaty...
Apr 11, 2002 / Editorial / John B. Anderson
Sharon Hawks Down? Sharon Hawks Down?
On April 3, a high-octane collection of thirty-three conservatives sent George W. Bush a letter urging him to lend Washington's "full support to Israel as it seeks to root out the...
Apr 11, 2002 / Editorial / David Corn
Lonesome Cowboy Lonesome Cowboy
On April 11, as John Anderson notes in this issue, the International Criminal Court was scheduled to go into effect after being ratified by the required sixty nations. Although Bi...
Apr 11, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
Where Are the Peaceniks? Where Are the Peaceniks?
Do Not Employ Arabs, Enemies Should Not Be Offered a Livelihood and We Will Assist Those Who Do Not Provide Work For Arabs are just a few of the slogans covering billboards throug...
Apr 11, 2002 / Editorial / Neve Gordon
Going Down the Road Going Down the Road
o, my momma called, "Why are they letting them gouge us like this?" she wanted to know. "They" are our so-called political leaders in Washington, and "them" are the drugmakers now...
Apr 11, 2002 / Editorial / Jim Hightower
An Open Letter to General Ariel Sharon An Open Letter to General Ariel Sharon
Sir,
Apr 10, 2002 / Editorial / Breyten Breytenbach
White–It Gets Worse White–It Gets Worse
Six weeks ago, The Nation called for Army Secretary Tom White's resignation. White, former vice chairman of an Enron Ponzi scheme called Enron Energy Services (EES) was self-evide...
Apr 4, 2002 / Editorial / Robert L. Borosage
Rights on the Line Rights on the Line
Recent days have brought the first tentative but welcome roadblocks to the Bush Administration's war-fevered assault on civil liberties. In Newark, Superior Court Judge Arthur D'I...
Apr 4, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
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 / Editorial / The Editors
View From Beirut View From Beirut
First, the Arab League summit here in Beirut was chaos. Then it was the nearest to Arab unity that the Middle East has seen since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The chaos, of ...
Apr 4, 2002 / Editorial / Robert Fisk