The weekend before Thanksgiving, as the Taliban fled into the
Hindu Kush and America's children flocked to "Harry Potter," the nation's
opinion-formers discovered that the Bush administration had hijacked the
Constitution with the...
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14 November 2001
Remember the "third degree"? It used to be the standard way many
police departments in this country extracted confessions from criminal
suspects. The practice was sharply diminished after the 1931 Wickersham
Report prepared by the...
09 November 2001
The bombing campaign against the people of Afghanistan will be
described in history as the "U.S. Against the Third World." The launching
of military strikes against peasants does nothing to suppress terrorism, and
only erodes American...
08 November 2001
The twenty-first century truly began-politically, socially, and
psychologically-with two epochal events: the World Conference Against
Racism, held in Durban, South Africa this summer, and the terrorist attacks
of September 11 which...
06 November 2001
The usual bosh is getting into the press about the technological
prowess of U.S. weaponry as deployed against Afghanistan. He's been getting
some great scoops in his New Yorker dispatches, but in this instance,
Seymour Hersh ran some...
01 November 2001
No sane nation hands to a wartime enemy atomic
weapons set to go off within
its own homeland, and then lights the fuse.
Yet as the bombs and missiles drop on Afghanistan, the certainty of terror retaliation inside America...
Yet as the bombs and missiles drop on Afghanistan, the certainty of terror retaliation inside America...
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