Insider Enrichment Insider Enrichment
When the Clinton Administration privatized the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) last year, critics warned that the new company would seek to back out of a historic but...
Nov 25, 1999 / Editorial / Ken Silverstein and Ian Urbina
The People vs. the WTO The People vs. the WTO
The thousands of demonstrators who will greet the World Trade Organization delegates in Seattle on November 30 will have many voices but one message: The attempt to write a const...
Nov 18, 1999 / Editorial / The Editors
Microsoft’s Fatal Error Microsoft’s Fatal Error
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's factual findings in United States v. Microsoft, released November 5, spell the doom of Microsoft as we have known it.
Nov 11, 1999 / Editorial / Eben Moglen
Debt: Just Forget It Debt: Just Forget It
For two decades the International Monetary Fund and its major client, the US Treasury, have made privatization, austere social budgets and market deregulation conditions of loans...
The Life of a Black Man The Life of a Black Man
A stay of execution was issued October 26.
Oct 28, 1999 / Editorial / Angela Y. Davis, June Jordan, and Alice Walker
Banning the Ban Banning the Ban
The Senate Republicans' shameful rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty was the work of a core of hard-line conservatives led by Senator Jesse Helms.
Oct 21, 1999 / Editorial / The Editors
The Unthinkable The Unthinkable
When the Republican majority in the Senate voted down the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on October 13, President Clinton called their act "partisanship at its worst." The Washing...
Oct 21, 1999 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell
Bertelsmann’s Revisionist Bertelsmann’s Revisionist
The Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute provided research assistance.
Oct 21, 1999 / Editorial / John S. Friedman and Hersch Fischler
Labor’s Labors Labor’s Labors
Marking the fourth year of president John Sweeney's tenure, the 13-million-member AFL-CIO had much to celebrate at its biennial convention in Los Angeles in mid-October.
Oct 14, 1999 / Editorial / The Editors
Pakistan: No Way Out Pakistan: No Way Out
For the third time in Pakistan's traumatic history, the army has seized power--this time, apparently, against the advice of the United States. The country is under martial law.