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 clash of civilizations or politics as power?
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Several years ago, while I was a student at Columbia University’s School of In- ternational and Public Affairs, one of the hottest topics of debate was an article Harvard’s Samuel Huntington wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine titled “The...
16 January 2002
Columbia: Kill off the food crops and let the US sniff out the coke
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I arrived back from Colombia tired but very, very happy with the trip. I have nothing but the highest praise for Witness for Peace volunteers Jess and Julia who organized our delegation to travel and learn about the realities of life...

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