Dry Up the Pools of Discontent Dry Up the Pools of Discontent
The bombing part is easy. Not of course on the civilians, the "collateral damage" likely to be killed in unseemly large numbers, as they were during the Gulf War.
Oct 10, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
Kabul’s Health Apartheid Kabul’s Health Apartheid
On September 6, Afghanistan's Taliban extremists ordered all hospitals in the capital city of Kabul to partly or completely suspend medical services to women.
Oct 4, 2001 / Max Block
Kabul’s Patriarchy With Guns Kabul’s Patriarchy With Guns
The capture by Taliban guerrillas of the Afghan capital, Kabul, however short- or long-lived, has come after two years of one of the most obnoxious interventions by one state in t...
Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Fred Halliday
Where Are the Women? Where Are the Women?
Are there any people on earth more wretched than the women of Afghanistan? As if poverty, hunger, disease, drought, ruined cities and a huge refugee crisis weren't bad enou...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Pakistan, the Taliban and the US Pakistan, the Taliban and the US
If Islamabad heeds Washington's war demands, it risks internal revolt.
Sep 20, 2001 / Feature / Ahmed Rashid
A Political Solution Is Required A Political Solution Is Required
While the US looks upon Pakistan for help in its new 'war on terror,' lessons from the past teach us that the alliance can have sinister repercussions.
Sep 17, 2001 / Tariq Ali
Israel: Into the Abyss Israel: Into the Abyss
Ariel Sharon's government is failing to use nonviolent approaches in its confrontation with the Palestinians.
Sep 6, 2001 / Neve Gordon
The Cosatu Strike The Cosatu Strike
Nothing in modern times has symbolized the scourge of racism--and the potential for overcoming it--more than South Africa's recent history.
Aug 30, 2001 / Feature / Mark Gevisser
West Bank Dreamin’ West Bank Dreamin’
Last night I had the strangest dream... All of America's wealthy, conservative and safely belligerent pundits had been delivered by a just and beneficent Almighty Pow...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
It’s the Real Thing: Murder It’s the Real Thing: Murder
US employers like Coca-Cola are implicated in Colombia's brutality.
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Aram Roston