States’ Rights and the WTO States’ Rights and the WTO
The World Trade Organization imposes obligations on state and local governments that limit their ability to protect consumers, establish environmental standards and undertake eco...
Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Dennis Kucinich
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...
Ending Timor’s Ordeal Ending Timor’s Ordeal
Indonesia's scorched-earth compliance with international pressure on East Timor has left Dili, the capital, in ruins, displaced some 100,000 people to refugee camps under the con...
Sep 16, 1999 / Editorial / The Editors
Behind the Blue Helmets Behind the Blue Helmets
The new US envoy to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, has personal experience of how frustrating it can be to negotiate, even when speaking in the name of that mega-clich&ea...
Sep 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
Holbrooke’s Time to Lead Holbrooke’s Time to Lead
In assuming his position at the United Nations, ambassador Richard Holbrooke brings his personal access to power, a sharp intelligence and a capacity, unusual in government, to t...
Sep 2, 1999 / Editorial / The Editors
Dark Victory Dark Victory
The Kosovo settlement negotiated by the G-8 countries is cause for relief but not celebration.
Jun 10, 1999 / Editorial / The Editors
Reflections on the War Reflections on the War
Only the most dedicated spinmaster at the White House would have the audacity to claim victory as the outcome of the NATO war, especially at this stage.
Jun 10, 1999 / Feature / Richard Falk
Kosovo Teach-In Kosovo Teach-In
In a sign of mounting opposition to the Clinton Administration's war policies, more than a thousand people participated in a five-hour teach-in on May 23 in Los Angeles.
Jun 10, 1999 / Editorial / Various Contributors
No Impunity for Milosevic No Impunity for Milosevic
One of the notable achievements of the indictment issued on May 24 by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia--beyond fixing individual responsibility ...
Jun 3, 1999 / Editorial / The Editors
If Slobo, Why Not Bill? If Slobo, Why Not Bill?
I'm no fan of the International Criminal Tribunal, for the reasons Doug Lummis outlined in these pages on September 26, 1994, concluding reasonably enough that such a tribunal w...
Jun 3, 1999 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn