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Democracy's 9/11 in Pakistan

by Abbas Zaidi

[ september 04 ]

"Pakistan is one of the most violent, intolerant and dangerous countries in the world. It was spoken of as a failed state till the US came to its rescue after 9/11. Imagine what would have happened if 9/11 had not happened..."

Reflections on the September 11 attacks and "pre-emptive" war in Iraq

by Hall Gardner

[ september 04 ]

"Washington did not 'cause' the new global disorder, yet the roots of the present crisis lie in the general failure of US diplomacy to establish new and more concerted norms for international state behavior in the post-Cold War era"

American jihad: The banality of violence

by Joe Palmer

[ september 04 ]

"Why is Iraq more fun than Ohio? Would you rather be in Baghdad or Akron? Quick. Choose."

Kissinger vs. Kerry

by Jonathan Penton

[ september 04 ]

What do you want: good grammar or good taste?

Chechnya and Tolstoy's Hadji Murad

by Joe Palmer

[ september 04 ]

"In 1851 Tolstoy went to the Caucasus, where he learned the true story of Hadji Murad, a hero of the new democratic age."

Poetry, politics and Dorothy gone horribly astray

by Kevin Higgins

[ september 04 ]

"And for all its warnings, the glittering genius of Auden could do nothing to stall humanity's mad march to Auschwitz and Hiroshima. That's just not how it works."

Shut up and color

by Paul Rogat Loeb

[ august 04 ]

The politics of bullying

Down the rabbit-hole

by Jason Leopold

[ august 04 ]

Or, How Dick Cheney got away with $35 million right before the government launched a probe into Halliburton

Genocide, war crimes and the West

by Adam Jones

[ august 04 ]

"The study of genocide, along with other crimes against humanity and war crimes, appears relatively straightforward when the actions of 'the other guy' are under scrutiny."

Darfur's war of definitions

by Ramzy Baroud

[ august 04 ]

A story about African Muslims engaged in a conflict rooted in disagreements between nomadic tribes is just not newsworthy