Dry Up the Pools of Discontent Dry Up the Pools of Discontent
The bombing part is easy. Not of course on the civilians, the "collateral damage" likely to be killed in unseemly large numbers, as they were during the Gulf War.
Oct 10, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
Code of Misconduct Code of Misconduct
Michael Ignatieff has written eloquently from some very cruel places--Rwanda, Bosnia, Afghanistan.
Oct 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Erika Munk
Fate and Fundamentalism Fate and Fundamentalism
The distinguishing feature of most fundamentalist belief systems is a literal conception of the relation between words and meaning.
Oct 9, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The ‘War of the Future’ The ‘War of the Future’
Even before the smoke cleared from the recent US missile attacks we were told to brace ourselves for a newly declared "war on terrorism," the "war of the future." From the lips o...
Oct 9, 2001 / The Editors
Reply to Hitchens’s Rejoinder Reply to Hitchens’s Rejoinder
It is unfortunate that with such serious issues to attend to, Christopher Hitchens insists on wasting time on irrelevant and fanciful diatribes against assorted enemies, the lates...
Oct 5, 2001 / Feature / Noam Chomsky
Kabul’s Health Apartheid Kabul’s Health Apartheid
On September 6, Afghanistan's Taliban extremists ordered all hospitals in the capital city of Kabul to partly or completely suspend medical services to women.
Oct 4, 2001 / Max Block
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
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
Blaming bin Laden First Blaming bin Laden First
Just once more, and then we'll really have to get on with more pressing business. I could subscribe myself at any time to any of the following statements: § A...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Signs of the Times Signs of the Times
Protests against symbols of capitalism find themselves in a transformed landscape.
Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Naomi Klein