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February 26, 2007 Issue
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Feature
Washington is all too happy to overlook the undemocratic excesses of Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi, who has pledged his support for Bush's "war on terror."
A new Pentagon report documents how the Bush Administration fooled us once with lies about Iraq's Al Qaeda ties. Will that keep them from fooling us again on Iran?
Dante's circles of hell provide an apt metaphor for the Palestinian experience in Gaza. And it can only get worse.
Now that Lieut. Ehren Watada's court-martial has ended in mistrial, his case could focus America's attention on how we came to fight an illegal war and what we must do to end it.
A new exhibit inadvertently displays why Americans might be confused about what terrorism is and how to fight it.
The shoddy construction of FEMA's trailers has led to an epidemic of respiratory illness among Katrina refugees.
A recent police raid on a small-city factory showcases the Bush Administration's frightening war on illegal immigration.
Editorial
Are Bush and Cheney so wedded to their delusions that they might
gun the car and head directly over the cliff in a confrontation with
Iran?
Media frenzy to the contrary, a warm winter doesn't point to the end of the world--scientific evidence does.
The time has come for the US to join the rest of civilized nations and abolish capital punishment.
Hugo Chávez's critics may mock his ideas of twenty-first-century socialism as empty rhetoric. But maybe it's magical realism--still a fiction, but one to be nourished as a realizable ideal.
The good news on the latest global warming report: Political leaders can no longer ignore it. The bad news: It's probably too late.
From the pages of The Nation , here's a sampler of Molly Ivins at her best.
America's next President must have a big heart, an open mind and the passion to set the nation on the way to equality, opportunity, true democracy and social justice.
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Column
As debate unfolds on a non-binding Iraq resolution, the House should consider exacting a promise from President not to invade Iran.
Sen. Carl Levin is determined to get to the bottom of how Douglas Feith's false intelligence helped lead the US to a disastrous and illegal war.
Former NBA player John Amaechi's admission that he is gay exposed the league's compassion and bigotry.
The majority of Americans support fair-trade policies--so why do mainstream pundits treat the idea with so much contempt?
Diagnosis: Late-stage insanity.
Is George W. Bush the worst President the United States has ever seen?
Books & the Arts
Are Bush and Cheney so wedded to their delusions that they might
gun the car and head directly over the cliff in a confrontation with
Iran?
A new exhibit inadvertently displays why Americans might be confused about what terrorism is and how to fight it.
Reviews of The Lives of Others and Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams .
In the Country of Men tells the story of a Libyan boy whose dissident father is wanted by the authorities.
A new biography of William James portrays a man who made a brilliant career of asking tough questions.
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