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30 January 2002
Afghanistan Aid
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Keith Johnson
Dear Editor,

It was heartening to read that our government is pledging almost $300 million to aid in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. This is a large number but it hardly compares with the amount of money that we are...
23 January 2002
The Enron Uproar
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Alexander Cockburn
Everywhere we look, it's Enron, in the biggest tumult over corporate criminality since the looting of the S&Ls in the 1980s. Enron will be on the menu for months, if not years. Congress launches into at least eight separate...
20 January 2002
War and Claptrap
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Alexander Cockburn
The disjuncture these days between reality and what one reads in the press here is pretty much absolute. The other day I opened up the San Francisco Chronicle and found a piece hailing what the writer described as something most...
18 January 2002
The war against the war in Iraq
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Delegates from all parts of the U.S. gathered in Washington DC June 15-18 to attend the Education for Peace in Iraq Center’s (EPIC) Iraq Forum and to lobby members of congress to lift economic sanctions and oppose prominent hardliners...
16 January 2002
The top five lies about the war
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How many people do you know who claim to be skeptical, who pride themselves on their distrust for authority, who like to pretend that they’re wise to the ways of the world — and then, every time there’s a war, they swallow the lies of...
16 January 2002
What the Press Hasn't Told You About the War
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Martin Yant
In America’s war on terrorism, the first U.S. casualty was the First Amendment. The military, the Bush administration and the media itself have squelched important information about the war in Afghanistan since it began on...

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