Operation Self-Destruction Operation Self-Destruction
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Dec 8, 2004 / Feature / Karl M. Purnell
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I've never had a strong appetite for travel literature.
Dec 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stacy Torres
Pakistan and the True WMD Threat Pakistan and the True WMD Threat
If it had been even a primitive nuclear weapon that hit the World Trade Center three years ago, hundreds of thousands of people would have died instead of fewer than 3,000, and t...
Dec 7, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
Kissinger’s Shadow Over the Council on Foreign Relations Kissinger’s Shadow Over the Council on Foreign Relations
A critic of US-Chile policy paid the price.
Dec 6, 2004 / Feature / Scott Sherman
The War That Never Was The War That Never Was
As war threatened Europe in the 1930s, a physicist turned to a psychiatrist to help understand the impending violence.
Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding! Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!
No alien penetration or treachery of double agents has ever done nearly as much damage to the CIA as the infighting consequent upon the arrival of each new director, charged by h...
Dec 2, 2004 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Defunct Economists Defunct Economists
Professor Paul Samuelson's Economics: An Introductory Analysis has been the bestselling college economics textbook for more than fifty years.
Dec 2, 2004 / Editorial / William Greider
Taking Liberties Taking Liberties
Attorney General John Ashcroft has never been one to hide his anger under a bushel.
Dec 2, 2004 / Editorial / David Cole
Dutch Tolerance Tried Dutch Tolerance Tried
“We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.” So said the philosopher Karl Popper near the end of World War II.
Dec 2, 2004 / Editorial / Maria Margaronis
Ukraine’s Untold Story Ukraine’s Untold Story
However Ukraine's crisis is resolved, it is clear that interference by Russia and the United States has been massive. Viktor Yanukovich, the current Prime Minister, was Moscow's ...
Dec 2, 2004 / Editorial / Jonathan Steele