magazine May 5, 2003

Backlash Against Al Jazeera

Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera has taken a beating for its efforts to show, in detail, the human toll… more

By Elizabeth Ptacek   

Prime Time Payola

Is Clear Channel buying political favors with pro-war fanaticism?

By Stephen Marshall   

The Road from Baghdad

The Bush team has big plans for the 21st century. Can the rest of the world stop them?

By David Moberg   

Not Our Fight?

Why blacks are skeptical of war

By Salim Muwakkil   

The Looking Glass War

All right. Let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We ignored the United Nations in… more

By Peter Freundlich   

The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire

Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates. How many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided… more

By Arundhati Roy   

Welcome to the 21st Century

Ohio state senators oppose the 14th Amendment

Imprisoned by the Patriot Act

While a few of those detained under the provisions of the October 2001 USA Patriot Act have been naturalized… more

At It Again

Republicans meddle in Cambodian politics

Dissent from Within

Anti-Castro petition gathers steam

Jumbo Problem

Shrimp aquaculture threatens Guatemala’s tropical coasts

No Relief

Lackluster cold warriors bungle Latin American policy

books

To See or Not To See

The images we saw on TV last night ... were terrible. The whole city looked as if it were… more

Kiss the Girls, Make Them Cry

You don’t have to be an embedded journalist to know we’re missing much of the good stuff on live… more

By Joshua Rothkopf   

books

The Price Isn’t Right

I believe we are at the threshold of a fundamental change in our popular economic thought,” Franklin Roosevelt announced… more

By Sandy Zipp   

Dear Mr. Vonnegut,

The other day I was asked to do the now common act of taking off my shoes at the… more

By Kurt Vonnegut   

Back Talk

Shock and Awe: How to Combat Awful War Coverage

Now that Team Bush has gotten its way and unilaterally launched an invasion of Iraq, those of us who oppose this immoral madness… more