Dissident or Apologist? Dissident or Apologist?
The Iraqi-American writer and Brandeis professor Kanan Makiya is nowadays considered by many in the United States to be the Iraqi dissident par excellence.
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon
Iraq War Blowback Iraq War Blowback
A deeply disturbing development that has been buried under the debris of war talk is the fact that since 1998, in a major historical reversal, most of the deaths and injuries f...
Jan 16, 2003 / Editorial / Saskia Sassen
Letter From Iraq Letter From Iraq
I asked Fatima, a mother with nine children, all living with her husband and her sister in three rooms, "How are you preparing for the war?" She replies, "Oh, there is not much...
Jan 16, 2003 / Editorial / Elizabeth Roberts
A Hundred Peace Movements Bloom A Hundred Peace Movements Bloom
The strength of the opposition is not its unity, but its diversity.
Dec 18, 2002 / Feature / Esther Kaplan
Voices for Peace Voices for Peace
WHO: Racial Justice 9-11: People of Color Against the War
Dec 18, 2002 / Feature / The Nation
Oil, Iraq and America Oil, Iraq and America
For more from Hiro on Iraq, read Iraq: In the Eye of the Storm, a short, lucid primer recently published by NationBooks.
Dec 16, 2002 / Feature / Dilip Hiro
Making the Connections Making the Connections
A sense of the larger picture is growing among US citizens, notably, though not only, among a young generation, along with a revulsion against official and corporate contempt f...
Dec 12, 2002 / Editorial / Adrienne Rich
What if the Hunt for ‘Evildoers’ Aimed at Us? What if the Hunt for ‘Evildoers’ Aimed at Us?
The negative response from the Bush Administration to the UN inspections in Iraq could be dismissed as childish pique were it not so telling an evocation of the image of the Ugly...
Dec 10, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Who Will Tell the People? Who Will Tell the People?
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers is Daniel Ellsberg's story of his personal journey from being in the early 1960s a "dedicated cold warrior" who supported A...
Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Rudenstine
Quiet in Hollywood Quiet in Hollywood
The Quiet American, which recently opened for a two-week run in a couple of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, illustrates just how far Hollywood self-censorship has gone in...
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener