magazine April 14, 2003

After Miller-El, Mumia Abu-Jamal May Appeal

The Supreme Court’s Miller-El ruling could be a big break for Mumia Abu-Jamal, the black Philadelphia journalist on Pennsylvania’s… more

By Dave Lindorff   

Richard Perle: It Pays To Be the Prince of Darkness

Richard Perle is a busy guy these days, what with his long-desired war against Iraq in full swing, plus… more

By Frida Berrigan   

Michael Moore Stars at Academy Awards

On day five of the war, it was supremely ironic that network television viewers had to tune into the… more

By Joel Bleifuss   

Eco-lateral Damage

Like the first Gulf War, this one is sure to be an environmental disaster

By Ross Mirkarimi   

Which Side Are We On?

Redefining Who’s Us and Who’s Them

By G. William Domhoff   

Bush vs. the World

Why Washington can’t go it alone

By Ian Williams   

Today, Iraq. Tomorrow ... Democracy?

Much more is at stake in this war than the future of Saddam Hussein

By Slavoj Zizek   

Plan B for the Peace Movement

Persistent protesters need to prepare for some unsettling possibilities

By Paul Loeb and Geov Parrish   

Union Yes, War No

The AFL-CIO charts a new course for labor by opposing an attack on Iraq

By David Moberg   

You Can’t Handle the Truth

George W. Bush, Liar-in-Chief

By Ian Williams   

The Holy Grail

The crusade for media reform will face serious obstacles

By Pat Aufderheide   

Our Media, Not Theirs

Building the U.S. media reform movement

By Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols   

Crude History Lesson

Is the war all about oil after all?

By Dave Lindorff   

Drop Television, Not Bombs

What the TV news couldn’t tell you about the protests

By Will Nixon   

Halliburton’s Axis of Influence

Is Dick Cheney still on Halliburton’s payroll? Even though he supposedly sold off his assets when he moved to… more

By Frida Berrigan   

Candid Camera

Smile, the cops are watching

Rigged Justice

Supreme Court rules against stacking juries with whites

Catching Courage

For her work as co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the economic sanctions against the… more

Criminalizing the Homeless

Anti-begging ordinances proliferate across the U.S.

books

Against All Odds

Before he married and became a father, my cousin was a gamblin’ man. A successful banker from Monday to… more

By Eugene McCarraher   

Dear Mr. Vonnegut,

What on earth happened to American journalists so that they let fanatics toy with them? Andrés Hoyos, Bogota, Colombia… more

By Kurt Vonnegut   

Terrible Beauty

Helen M. Stummer has been called the Dorothea Lange of our time. As a chronicler of contemporary poverty, for… more

By Eleanor J. Bader   

Stranger than Fiction

A few days after her 24th birthday in April 1939, Billie Holiday wandered into the Commodore Music Shop, a… more

By Jody Kolodzey   

Editorial

Spies Like Us

Kamel is cited as providing proof that Iraq poses a clear and present danger, when he did the opposite.