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John McCain For Uncle in 2000; Al Gore For President
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
John McCain has a lot of independents charged up with his straight talking GOP insurgency. Talk of "McCain Democrats" has the Gore camp sweaty. Alex Zaitchik is afraid all the excitement has blurred our collective sanity.
02.24.2000 | POLITICS

Euroarmy: A Threat to Whom?
BY JACEK BOBOLI
During the Cold War, NATO protected the European recovery and kept security simple: Washington runs the show. Ten Years after the Fall, the NATO consensus in Europe is breaking up; but what lies beyond NATO? Belgian Jacek Boboli makes the case for an independent Euroarmy.
02.24.2000 | POLITICS

See You in Kosovo
BY GWENDOLYN ALBERT
American expatriate Gwendolyn Albert housed a Gypsie refugee from Kosovo in Prague, here's her story...
02.24.2000 | POLITICS

Letter From Assata Shakur, Political Exile
BY ASSATA SHAKUR
Black activist Assata Shakur was framed for murder over twenty-five years ago. She has lived in Cuba since 1983, but the New Jersey police department, egged on by Republican governor Christine Todd Whitman and hungry for blood, is recruiting mercenaries to bring her back to "justice" in the States. Here's her story, in her own words.
02.24.2000 | POLITICS

Minnesota's New Governor: Yawn
BY JONAS SVEDIC
The convergence of Planet Hollywood with the levers of State power is nothing new in America.
04.14.1999 | POLITICS

Drifting Towards Catastrophe
BY WHINDUM MURRAY
Forget the Cold War--the next one will zoom past hot to thermonuclear.
04.14.1999 | POLITICS

Media Reform Bill Deserves Support
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
The media reform bill up for vote in the Czech Parliament this spring is a hornet's nest of issues, each of which promises to influence Czech society far beyond the bill's pragmatic role as just another EU requirement.
04.14.1999 | MEDIA

King of Exposure
BY JOHN MAGUIRE
Every pendulum turns. Maybe Clinton's appalling, planet-wide confession, besides shaming him and us, will ring the curtain down on the Age of Aquarius and the Age of Exposure. Wouldn't that be great?
09.15.1998 | POLITICS

Capital and the Earth
BY JONAH WEISS
Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic? Or the The End of History and the Last Man! Frank Fukuyama makes brief mention of environmental collapse as a possible problem for the stability of the New World Order in the 21st century. The reality is that we need to build another ship more appropriate to the world which we inhabit. Otherwise its Iceberg City baby, and don't expect a sequel.
09.15.1998 | POLITICS