The New Humanitarian Order
Mahmood Mamdani : Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing
Recent war crimes charges against the Sudanese president reveal the rights-based politics of the world's "new humanitarian order."
War & Peace
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2008
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Class War (chart)
Who's losing and who's winning at home from the US occupation of Iraq?
2007
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VideoNation: The Cost of War
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Economics
Democratic candidates need to make the war as a campaign issue, and hammer away at the staggering economic and human, costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The New Face of Warfare
Child soldiering has become a defining feature of modern warfare. And the United States has been all too complicit in the trend.
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The Semiwarriors
Andrew J. Bacevich : Non-Fiction
By creating an atmosphere of perpetual crisis, Presidents have expanded their powers and hidden their actions from the public eye.
2006
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Murtha's No Leftie: He's Right
As Democrats choose between a stalwart critic of the Iraq War and a proponent of Bush policies for Majority Leader, Fox News gets in the act, casting centrist Pennnsylvania Rep. John Murtha as a partisan extremist. Huh?
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¡No Más! No More!
Patrick Mulvaney : Foreign Affairs
Uruguay and Argentina are cutting ties with the US Army's School of the Americas, paving the way for other Latin American countries to end a destabilizing force that only perpetuates human rights atrocities.
2005
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Another 9/11? Never Mind...
Eric Alterman : Media Coverage of the War on Terrorism
The 9/11 Commission's startling follow-up report that savages the Bush Administration's inadequate efforts to protect the country from terrorism was met by the media with a collective yawn. And so we remain vulnerable, amazed and, if sensate, terrified.
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Cowboys and Eggheads
Eric Alterman : Democratic Party
Why do Americans trust Bush and the Republicans on national security issues?
2004
2003
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The Reason Why
Bush's motives have more to do with empire and profit than with liberating Iraq.
2001
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The Other Ground Zero
It's no secret that the Taliban were tolerated by the West because they stabilized a violent country by smothering it.
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New World, Old Order
Jerry W. Sanders : Foreign Affairs
A crucial test of US commitment to multilateralism involves the endgame in Afghanistan.
This week: Liberal living coast to coast. A look at the forthcoming "Nation Guide to the Nation," with Katrina vanden Heuvel. Plus: Patty Hearst, and Obama's choice for Secretary of Education. (13mb mp3)
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