Take This Prize and Shove It Take This Prize and Shove It
Right till the end of January, Dita Sari, an Indonesian in her late 20s, was preparing to fly from her home near Jakarta to Salt Lake City to bask in the admiration of assorted d...
Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
An Antiwar Movement Grows in Israel An Antiwar Movement Grows in Israel
A few months after the 1967 war, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, a professor at Hebrew University and a leading Israeli intellectual--who was also an observant Jew--stated that Israel must ...
Feb 7, 2002 / Neve Gordon
Letter From Pôrto Alegre Letter From Pôrto Alegre
PÔRTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL--In their last full day of discussion and debate, the thousands of delegates attending the World Social Forum were asking themselves not only what they...
Jan 31, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Shall We Leave It to the Experts? Shall We Leave It to the Experts?
Enron's power project in India demonstrates who benefits from globalization.
Jan 31, 2002 / Feature / Arundhati Roy
Kissinger’s Green Light to Suharto Kissinger’s Green Light to Suharto
In a few weeks, East Timor will be able to celebrate both its independence as a country and its status as a democracy. Elections will have produced a government able to seek and re...
Jan 31, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Building the Peace Building the Peace
"I stand before you today as a citizen of a country that has had nothing but disaster, war, brutality and deprivation against its people for many years," Hamid Karzai, leader of ...
Jan 24, 2002 / The Editors
The Others The Others
What if we could see the Afghan dead as we've seen the September 11 victims?
Jan 24, 2002 / Feature / Howard Zinn
Enron and the Bushes Enron and the Bushes
When George W. Bush was first running for governor of Texas, Washington editor David Corn took a look at Bush family activities on behalf of Enron in Argentina--itself now suffer...
Jan 17, 2002 / David Corn
Divide and Misrule Divide and Misrule
One of the old school of the British colonial service, a man with the irresistible name of Sir Penderel Moon, wrote a book about the end of empire and titled it Divide and Quit. At...
Jan 17, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Grief Without Portraits Grief Without Portraits
On December 10, Marc Herold, a professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire, released a report about civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Relying on news accounts fro...
Jan 17, 2002 / Michael Massing