World

Iraqi Olympic Soccer Players Kick the Stuffing Out of Bush’s Fantasy Iraqi Olympic Soccer Players Kick the Stuffing Out of Bush’s Fantasy

Team members do not want to be used as an ad for the presidential campaign.

Aug 24, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Kerry Made a Bush League Error on Iraq Kerry Made a Bush League Error on Iraq

His refusal to recant his war vote plays into the President's hands.

Aug 17, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Middle Man The Middle Man

Over the century that followed the Napoleonic wars, the Ottoman Empire contracted and eventually disappeared from the map.

Aug 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower

The Lost Steps The Lost Steps

American policy-makers may be divided into two schools of thought on the Arab-Israeli conflict: the evenhanded and the Israel-first.

Aug 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Avi Shlaim

Letter From Uganda Letter From Uganda

For two years, journalist Andrew Rice lived in Uganda as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs.

Aug 12, 2004 / Feature / Andrew Rice

Fables of the Reconstruction Fables of the Reconstruction

The effort to rebuild Iraq looks less like an aid mission than a criminal racket.

Aug 12, 2004 / Feature / Christian Parenti

Press Watch Press Watch

A silver lining amid the dismal outpouring of news from Iraq has been the unbroken parade of conservative (and liberal hawk) commentators who now admit--with mea culpas, half-apo...

Aug 12, 2004 / Editorial / Scott Sherman

Trust and Terror Trust and Terror

The color of emergency alerts does not matter if the people producing the alerts cannot be trusted.

Aug 12, 2004 / Editorial / The Editors

One More Chalabi Black Eye One More Chalabi Black Eye

A close alliance between Iraq and the fanatical ayatollahs of Iran is the most likely accomplishment of the US invasion.

Aug 10, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Latin America’s Longest War Latin America’s Longest War

In May, Jan Egeland, the United Nations Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs, called a news conference in New York to declare publicly what he had been warning people about fo...

Jul 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Peter Canby

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