CNN–War Casualty CNN–War Casualty
You could have knocked CNN's Aaron Brown over with a feather.
Mar 27, 2003 / Susan J. Douglas
The Big Lie The Big Lie
How bad can things get, how fast? Are we already at the point where literally nothing can derail the war machine?
Mar 20, 2003 / Russ Baker
Selling the War on TV Selling the War on TV
Let's say you have a war to sell. You have the usual public relations tools at your disposal: highly scripted press conferences, stories leaked by White House officials to a co...
Mar 13, 2003 / Susan J. Douglas
Washington Post Warriors Washington Post Warriors
A generation ago, when I worked at the Washington Post, the right-wing fringe occasionally referred to us as "Pravda on the Potomac." We reporters were amused but also rankled.
Mar 6, 2003 / William Greider
Donahue–War Casualty Donahue–War Casualty
War may or may not be inevitable, but a one-sided discussion of US policy toward Iraq appears to be all but guaranteed on network television.
Mar 6, 2003 / John Nichols
Hacks and Heroes Hacks and Heroes
Who's the hack? I nominate The New Yorker's Jeffrey Goldberg. He's the new Remington, though without the artistic talent.
Feb 27, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
In Bed With the Pentagon In Bed With the Pentagon
It's a fascinating scheme, "this very ambitious and aggressive embed plan," as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Bryan Whitman calls it.
Feb 27, 2003 / Carol Brightman
Code Orange Code Orange
The whole sad, messy world was on Code Orange alert on the day I left for England.
Feb 13, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Who’s in Charge? Who’s in Charge?
On October 4, 2001--less than a month after that horrific day--George W. Bush and the members of his National Security Council were nailing down the details of the coming war i...
Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Corn
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 / Saskia Sassen