01 November 2001
America's Terrorist Nuclear Threat to Itself
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Harvey Wasserman
No sane nation hands to a wartime enemy atomic weapons set to go off within its own homeland, and then lights the fuse.

Yet as the bombs and missiles drop on Afghanistan, the certainty of terror retaliation inside America...
31 October 2001
The Left and the 'Just War'
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Alexander Cockburn
The left is getting itself tied up in knots about the Just War and the propriety of bombing Afghanistan. The respected Princeton professor Richard Falk has outlined in The Nation an...
24 October 2001
FBI Eyes Torture
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Alexander Cockburn
"FBI and Justice Department investigators are increasingly frustrated by the silence of jailed suspected associates of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, and some are beginning to that say that traditional civil liberties may have to be...
20 October 2001
Joe Gotta Go!: A Victory in Selma, Alabama
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Dave Lippman
The last time I was in Selma, Alabama was in 1972, traveling across the South with a group of activists making a movie. (It never came out, which was just as well.) Our group was received with traditional Southern hospitality...
19 October 2001
Retribution Follies
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Alexander Cockburn
A couple of phrases give us useful pointers to the moral and political intricacies of retribution. The Pentagon is talking about establishing "killing boxes" around Kabul, where U.S. helicopter gunships can fire at will. The Pentagon's...
10 October 2001
The Crash
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Alexander Cockburn
The new war on terror isn't going to be of much use in combating the present plunge in America's economic well-being. Well before the Twin Towers fell to earth the country was entering a fierce decline, and it is assuredly going to get...

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