The North Korean Conundrum The North Korean Conundrum
In the prevailing American stereotype, North Korea is a failing Stalinist dictatorship held together only by the ruthless repression of a mad ruler who dreams of firing nuclear w...
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Selig S. Harrison
India’s Radical Vote India’s Radical Vote
The Indian people have delivered a stunning electoral blow to the right-wing National Democratic Alliance, led by the Hindu-chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party, and paved the way f...
May 20, 2004 / Praful Bidwai
The View From Prague The View From Prague
Only on my last day in this hilly, river-spliced city, with such beguiling old world charm and art nouveau elegance that unless you're Kafka a strenuous effort is required to m...
May 13, 2004 / Peter Davis
The Good War The Good War
For the last three and a half years the Israeli army has deployed American-supplied F-16 fighter jets, Apache helicopters, armored Caterpillar bulldozers and Merkava tanks po...
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Joel Beinin
Bhopal’s Legacy Bhopal’s Legacy
Every December for the past nineteen years, marchers in Bhopal, India, have paraded an effigy of Warren Anderson through town and burned it. Anderson is despised because he was...
May 6, 2004 / Mark Hertsgaard
Native Son Native Son
At the height of the Great Game, when adventure-crazed young men from Britain and Russia stealthily documented the wild miles and tribes of Central Asia, an American and an Eng...
May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Leela Jacinto
The Unfinished Revolution The Unfinished Revolution
I was 25 when I and the rest of black South Africa were eligible to vote for the first time. South Africa celebrated the tenth anniversary of that event this April.
Apr 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Sean Jacobs
Stupid Leaders, Useless Spies, Angry World Stupid Leaders, Useless Spies, Angry World
The stark fact that significant portions of our planet are under the supervision of exceptionally stupid and ill-informed people is provoking unwonted expressions of anger and ...
Apr 29, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Mutiny in Iraq Mutiny in Iraq
Can we please stop calling it a quagmire? The United States isn't mired in a bog or a marsh in Iraq (quagmire's literal meaning); it is free-falling off a cliff.
Apr 29, 2004 / Column / Naomi Klein
Neocon Man Neocon Man
Daniel Pipes has made his name inveighing against an academy overrun by political extremists. But he is nothing if not extreme in his own views.
Apr 22, 2004 / Feature / Eyal Press