Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Robert Kaplan is a hugely well-informed, indefatigable journalist who combines firsthand reporting, mostly from poor, badly governed or ungoverned countries, with wide reading ...
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
We Are the Patriots We Are the Patriots
Americans who oppose the Cheney-Bush junta demonstrate sanity, not cowardice.
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Gore Vidal
Letter from Ground Zero Letter from Ground Zero
In the past 200 years, all of the earth's great territorial empires, whether dynastic or colonial, or both, have been destroyed. The list includes the Russian empire of the cza...
Apr 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
A Vesuvius of violence has erupted from the dead center of American life, the executive branch of the government.
Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
An American Tragedy An American Tragedy
The tragedy of America in the post-cold war era is that we have proved unequal to the responsibility that our own power placed upon us.
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
Military Globalism Military Globalism
One of the first casualties of war may be those happy-talk forecasts of a robust recovery once the bombing starts in Iraq, but a far more momentous economic question accompanie...
Mar 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
Confronting Empire Confronting Empire
So how do we resist "Empire"? The good news is that we're not doing too badly. There have been major victories. Here in Latin America you have had so many--in Bolivia, you have...
Feb 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arundhati Roy
Republic or Empire? Republic or Empire?
As the senior American diplomat in Baghdad during Desert Shield, I advocated a muscular US response to Saddam's brutal annexation of Kuwait in flagrant violation of the United ...
Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Joseph Wilson
The New Imperialism The New Imperialism
In my days as a student activist in the 1970s, the use of the term "imperialism" to describe US policy was generally used only in the antiwar and international solidarity movem...
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / William D. Hartung
Letter to America Letter to America
A Palestinian's view.
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Marwan Bishara