By Neal Ascherson It began with a blinding flash and promises of speedy victory. Five years on the mission far from accomplished. Neal Ascherson opens this Iraq Special The show began with blinding flashes, heart-stopping thunder, sparks which had been palaces and hovels soaring up to decorate the night sky. The Shock and Awe military [...]

We have to condemn with loud voices, open speech and fearless thinking as much the terrorists as the system that spawns them By Anwaar Hussain Young men, full of youth’s vigor, pumped up and brainwashed by patriotism or religious zeal always have, and always will, kill and be killed. That is a no-brainer. The question [...]

By Patrick Grimm Tom Waits lends his macabre vocal to a memorable little carnival-like dirge that has the master singer/songwriter growling menacingly “Misery’s the river of the world! Misery’s the river of the world! Everybody row, everybody row!” Of course Waits’ gravely singing, a quite generous term for what he does with his voice, has [...]

by Barbara Ehrenreich TS Admin : This is hilarious. And so true. How much lower can consumer spending go? The malls are like mausoleums, retail clerks are getting laid off and AOL recently featured on its welcome page the story of a man so cheap that he recycles his dental floss — hanging it from [...]

By Noel Malcolm The American edition of this book, which came out a few months ago, bore the title Are We Rome? Apparently that was the sort of question for which ancient Romans would have used the word ‘nonne’, expecting the answer ‘yes’; for the British edition is baldly entitled The New Rome. Sidney and [...]

By Anwaar Hussain Yale University is an awesome institution. For the academic year 2006-2007 for example, Yale was having on its campus over 13000 undergraduate, graduate and international students. Yale has 275 Campus buildings and its library holds 12.5 million volumes. With an endowment of $22.5 billion, its operating budget of $1.96 billion for the [...]

An Essay On The Indictment Movement By Bruce R. Marshall “If the American people really knew what we had done, we would be chased down the street and lynched.” — President George H.W.Bush to White House correspondent Sara McClendon, 1992 The call initiated by patriotic citizens in Brattleboro Vermont for the indictment of Bush and [...]