Bush’s China Opening Bush’s China Opening
In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, China has undergone a dramatic makeover: from the most outspoken adversary of the United States to a highly appreciated ally...
Feb 14, 2002 / Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic
Letter From China Letter From China
While the elite embrace globalization, the anger of workers and peasants grows.
Feb 14, 2002 / Feature / Jiang Xueqin
Many Oppose Trade Deal Many Oppose Trade Deal
Pôrto Alegre, Brazil--In US living rooms, talk about such policy measures as the White House's proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is likely to elicit clueless ...
Feb 11, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper
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