The Kurds Take a City The Kurds Take a City
By 9 am on April 10, the day Kirkuk fell, columns of Iraqi troops who were supposed to be defending the city fled to the Baghdad Garage, the main transportation terminal, and s...
Apr 17, 2003 / Eliza Griswold
Are We Safer? Are We Safer?
The Bush Administration and its cheerleaders in the media are claiming that the "remarkable success" of the US war in Iraq proves its opponents were "spectacularly wrong"--even...
Apr 17, 2003 / Stephen F. Cohen
History? What History? History? What History?
Allowing the looting of Iraq's museums is another indication of our contempt for the Mideast -- and our unfitness to rule it
Apr 16, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Among the Gilded Paupers Among the Gilded Paupers
The quest for El Dorado, the mythic city of gold, is at the heart of the tumultuous history of the Americas.
Apr 10, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Anderson Tepper
Privatization in Disguise Privatization in Disguise
On April 6, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz spelled it out: There will be no role for the United Nations in setting up an interim government in Iraq.
Apr 10, 2003 / Column / Naomi Klein
Letter From Afghanistan Letter From Afghanistan
Little "nation-building" is under way, and the country is on the edge of civil war.
Apr 10, 2003 / Feature / Scott Baldauf
The View From the Throne The View From the Throne
After carefully crafted U.S.
Apr 9, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
With the Kurds With the Kurds
I'm standing at the northern front in Chamchamal, a quarter-mile from Saddam Hussein's hilltop divisions. Before me six mounds of earth, like oversized anthills, line the ridge...
Mar 27, 2003 / Eliza Griswold
Dispatch From Britain Dispatch From Britain
The night the war began, an ashen-faced woman in Parliament Square held up a photograph of an Iraqi soldier, reduced to a smudge of carbon but for his head and feet--an image f...
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
Dispatch From Vietnam Dispatch From Vietnam
In this country, where a US military attack echoes more loudly perhaps than anywhere else in the world, protesters against the war are expressing themselves from Hanoi in the n...
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Peter Davis