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Going It Alone
BY MICHAEL MANVILLE
The world is suspicous of our motives in Iraq, and not without reason. A brief history of bad intentions.
09.20.2002 | POLITICS
No Thank You, Mr. President
BY LEV GRINBERG
An Israeli discusses the danger to Israel posed by Gulf War II.
09.13.2002 | POLITICS
Semtex: The Magic Marble of Pardubice
BY JEFF KOYEN AND ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
A brief history of the world's most famous plastic explosive.
08.27.2002 | POLITICS
Wars, Wackos and Warming
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
It's the end of the world as we know it--and Dick Cheney feels fine.
08.25.2002 | ENVIRONMENT
The Powell Doctrine
BY HEATHER WOKUSCH
What they forgot to tell us while we were on the road to war.
08.22.2002 | POLITICS
Think the News Media Is Anti-Bush?
BY DIANE E. DEES
I've got this Enron stock you may want to buy, too...
08.22.2002 | POLITICS
Going AWOL
BY HEATHER WOKUSCH
Uncle Sam wants you--and anything else he can get his mitts on.
08.06.2002 | POLITICS
Why Conservatives Hate Europe
BY J. CARTER WOOD
War in Central Asia, turmoil in the Middle East--it would seem that Europe might be the least of our worries. Not to conservatives, though, who can find the sources of most world trouble lying in the mindset of our transatlantic allies.
07.22.2002 | POLITICS
The Bush Ethic of Responsibility
BY HEATHER WOKUSCH
Bush's handlers say the president is reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics these days. A look at the 2003 Budget shows he doesn't understand it.
07.21.2002 | POLITICS
President Bush the Martyr
BY SAM BAHOUR AND MICHAEL DAHAN
What the President--and his country--still don't understand about the Arab-Israeli conflict.
06.26.2002 | POLITICS
The Great Game Continues
BY RON CALLARI AND TARIQ SAEEDI
Oil interests are crowding the vacuum left by the Afghan war, and if the US isn't careful, it might get locked out of the profits.
06.05.2002 | POLITICS
Our Men in Havana
BY MICHAEL MANVILLE
For forty years, the only thing we have been able to do about Cuba is lie.
05.24.2002 | POLITICS
Palestine By George Lucas
BY MATTHEW CALLAN
The menaces we have to fear are not in phantoms, but in ourselves.
05.22.2002 | POLITICS
Warning Shots
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Thoughts and facts on Europe's far-right.
05.21.2002 | POLITICS
The Mysterious Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen
BY CHRISTOPHER LORD
What it means--and what it doesn't.
05.21.2002 | POLITICS
Hugo Chavez for President
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Was last month's failed coup in Venezuela Bush's mini-Bay of Pigs?
05.01.2002 | POLITICS
Beautiful Mind-Fields
BY RON CALLARI
A modern Modest Proposal à la Jonathan Swift.
04.17.2002 | POLITICS
Poverty Post September 11
BY BRIAN YOKOHAMA
How the terrorist attacks gave us a fresh chance to address the problem of poverty.
04.16.2002 | POLITICS
Palestinians and the American People
BY SAM BAHOUR
A report from Ramallah on what the US public should know about the Arab-Israeli conflict.
04.16.2002 | POLITICS
Occupation and Terrorism
BY JAMES PACKARD WINKLER, PH.D.
Politics out of a gun barrel.
03.23.2002 | POLITICS
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