09 December 2001
American Indian Issues
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Sue Buck
Dear Columbus Free Press Editors,

I recently started thinking about a topic which I had never thought much about before, and I probably would rather not think about it now, however; my conscience will not allow me to disregard...
05 December 2001
Sharon or Arafat: Which is the Sponsor of Terror
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Alexander Cockburn
"Arafat is guilty of everything here." Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared on television Monday night. "Arafat has made his strategic choices: a strategy of terrorism." In sync with these fierce words, Israeli forces launched...
29 November 2001
H-E-R-E'S the Silver Lining!
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Alexander Cockburn
It had seemed to me that one absolutely certain fact, beyond all dispute or question, is that the terror attacks of Sept. 11 had no silver lining, no unexpectedly beneficial fallout. It was, is and will be a terrible business with...
21 November 2001
Where Were They When It Counted?
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Alexander Cockburn
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...
14 November 2001
The Torture Boomlet
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Alexander Cockburn
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 Failure of U.S. Foreign Policies
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Dr. Manning Marable
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...

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