James Baker’s Double Life James Baker’s Double Life
Bush's special envoy has a private interest in Iraqi debt, documents reveal.
Oct 12, 2004 / Feature / Naomi Klein
Postcard From Kabul Postcard From Kabul
The Afghan presidential election was plagued with fraud and technical errors.
Oct 10, 2004 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Rhythm Nation Rhythm Nation
Since Fidel Castro's brief fainting spell during a speech in June 2001, Miami, Havana and Washington have been caldrons of feverish speculation on his succession and the politics...
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ann Louise Bardach
Liberal Hawk Down Liberal Hawk Down
This essay is adapted from Anatol Lieven's next book, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism, to be published this month by Oxford University Press.
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Anatol Lieven
‘There Are No Innocents’ ‘There Are No Innocents’
An oppressive and beleaguered empire, a terrorist international, a storm raging in the world press about torture, right-wing Christians on the march against moral decline and the...
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Cockburn
Potemkin Government Potemkin Government
The longer the Bush Administration is in office, the clearer it becomes that it has a disordered relationship not just with one aspect of the world or another, such as the war in...
Oct 7, 2004 / Jonathan Schell
On the President’s Boast That He Knew Osama Bin Laden Rather Than Saddam Hussein Was Behind 9/1 On the President’s Boast That He Knew Osama Bin Laden Rather Than Saddam Hussein Was Behind 9/1
That's excellent. So tell us: Why did you
For months imply the opposite was true?
And why does Cheney (Nanny Dick) still flog
Oct 7, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Still Blair’s Party Still Blair’s Party
D.D. Guttenplan would like to thank Glenda Jackson MP for her assistance in gaining admission to the Labour Party Conference.
Oct 7, 2004 / D.D. Guttenplan
What ‘Democracy’ Looks Like What ‘Democracy’ Looks Like
How free and fair is an election run by warlords?
Oct 5, 2004 / Feature / Christian Parenti
iCinema iCinema
Fussing repetitively with a lock of blond hair, nervously flashing an incomplete set of front teeth, the figure on screen begins to cough up her "testimony" in the accents of a S...
Sep 30, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans