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Destinations
Columnists

A Way Out of the Middle East Impasse
by Edward Said
10/26/01

Too Much Smoke
Hindustan Times

10/26/01

Even Conservatives Need the Anti-War Movement
by Lew Rockwell
10/26/01

Farewell to Democracy in Pakistan
by Robert Fisk

10/26/01

The Right to Dissent
by Ahmed Yousef

10/25/01

Secrecy Moves In Tallahassee Are Perilous Affront To Public
Tampa Tribune

10/25/01

The Big Threat is to Islamic Society, Not the West
by William Pfaff
10/25/01

Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism
by David Krieger

10/24/01

Unintended Consequences
by John Tirman

10/24/01

From Ballymurphy to Osama bin Laden
by Simon Jenkins
10/24/01

Getting Ready for Winter
by James Glaser

10/24/01

It's Beirut All Over Again
by Ramzy Baroud

10/23/01

A True Patriot Can Pose Hard Questions
by Robert Scheer

10/23/01

Whispers from Sarajevo: A Lesson from World War One
by Paul Miniato
10/23/01

Death of a (War) Salesman
by Bob Murphy

10/23/01

Democracy and Justice are Casualties
by Libby Purves

10/23/01

Where the Bodies Are
by Geov Parrish

10/22/01

The Nation-Building Game
by Madeleine Bunting

10/22/01

Look Who's Looking
by Ron Gurantz

10/22/01

Frustrations, Coalition Fragility and No Clear Political Objective
by William Pfaff

10/22/01

With Friends Like the Saudis...
by Lindsey Hilsum

10/22/01

In Propaganda War, Do You Put Guns Before Peanut Butter?
by Mick Hume

10/22/01

The Use of Media as a Weapon
by Eric Margolis

10/21/01

Privacy is Just So Suspicious
by Robyn Blumner

10/21/01

Why This War Won't Work
by Jason Burke
10/21/01

Seeds of Extremism May Disperse From Afghanistan
by Michael Jansen

10/20/01

How Do You Like Your War?
by Michael Peirce

10/20/01

Has Israel Missed Its Rendezvous With History?
by William Markiewicz

10/20/01

Halt the Bombing
by Paul Clark

10/20/01

Washington Plots, Moscow Crawls, Kabul Burns
by Jared Israel

10/20/01

Why a Military Response Won't Work
by William Beeman

10/19/01

Common Sense Could Keep Us Out of War
by Charley Reese

10/19/01

New Prospects for Liberty
by Ryan McMaken

10/19/01

Misinformation is Real Anthrax Danger
by Steven Milloy

10/19/01

An End to an Unserious Decade
by Pat Buchanan

10/19/01

A Hornet's Nest
by Rajeev Dhavan

10/19/01

Operation CYA
by Sam Smith
10/19/01

Will the War Kill the Bill of Rights?
by David Kopel

10/18/01

'Nuke 'em' Not a Valid Tactic
by Molly Ivins

10/18/01

US Needs to Pursue Peaceful Solution
by Rachel Giese
10/18/01

US Has Put Itself Out on a Limb
by Jonathan Power

10/18/01

Government is a Terrible Master
by Steve Kubby

10/18/01

Shameful Silence as Bombs Drop
by Jonathan Steele

10/17/01

Does the Libertarian Party Support This War?
by Lew Rockwell
10/17/01

Promises, Broken Promises
by Robert Fisk
10/17/01

Saudi King's Ransom
by Seymour Hersh

10/16/01

Moral Reasoning Betrays a Double Standard
by Scott Laderman

10/16/01

Operation Infinite Disaster
by Chris Kromm

10/16/01

Kidding Ourselves
by John Keller

10/16/01

Gagging the Skeptics
by George Monbiot
10/16/01

US Needs a Contingency Plan for Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal
by Jon Wolfsthal

10/16/01

The Longer This War Continues, the More Difficult it Will Become
The Independent

10/16/01

Do We Choose Death or Peace?
by Harry Browne
10/16/01

Will American Freedom Pay The Price?
by Paul M. Weyrich

10/15/01

No Iraqi Connection
by Robert Novak

10/15/01

Break Off the Monologue
Hindustan Times

10/15/01

A War in the American Tradition
by John Pilger

10/15/01

What Bush Should Have Said
by Bernard Weiner

10/15/01

Tough Fight for Antiwar Movement
by Louis Freedberg
10/14/01

No Glory in Unjust War on the Weak
by Barbara Kingsolver

10/14/01

The Phoney War in Afghanistan
by Marshall Smith
10/13/01

A Timely Reprimand on Biological Warfare
by Christopher Brauchli

10/13/01

Don't Drag God Into Battle
by Michael McGirr

10/13/01

News They Won't Share
National Post (Canada)

10/12/01

US Military Response is Wrong – and it Won't Work
by Stephen Zunes

10/12/01

The Bioterror Road Doesn't Lead to Iraq
by Scott Ritter

10/12/01

A Conflicted Activist Speaks Out
by Bernard Weiner
10/12/01

The Net: Now Our Most Serious News Medium?
by Jon Katz

10/12/01

Ethics of This War Have Yet To Be Spelled Out
by Shaun Casey

10/11/01

Duncan Smith Has Written Tories Out of the Script
by Hugo Young

10/11/01

The Bombing Begins
by Chalmers Johnson
10/11/01

'Drinking the Sea' – of Terror
by William Markiewicz
10/10/01

US Doesn't Want or Need NATO Planes Patrolling Our Skies
by Rep. Ron Paul
10/10/01

Pentagon's Success in Afghanistan
Russmo

10/10/01

Israel and the Terrorist Attack
by Jude Wanniski
10/10/01

Iraqis Know What New Yorkers Are Suffering
by Stephanie Salter

10/10/01

The War Bin Laden Has Already Won
by Jonathan Freedland

10/10/01

Bush and Blair Have Already Lost the Talking War in the Mideast
by Robert Fisk

10/10/01

Terrorism Takes All Sides
by Robert Scheer

10/9/01

Did CIA Chiefs Profit From 9/11 Trading?
by Michael Ruppert

10/9/01

Are 1 Million Children Dying in Iraq?
by Chris Suellentrop

10/9/01

'OsamaGate'
by Michel Chossudovsky
10/9/01

When Osama Met the Taliban
by Ken Silverstein

10/9/01

Fire Paul Wolfowitz!
by Jude Wanniski

10/9/01

If You're Not Killing the Killers, It's Terrorism
by Crispin Sartwell

10/9/01

Forget Islam: bin Laden is No More Than a Spoilt Rich Kid
By Robert Harris
10/9/01

World War II and the Triumph of Keynesianism
by Robert Higgs

10/8/01

Eternal Vigilence
by Paul Jacob

10/8/01

Who Said History Stopped Being Ironical?
by Tariq Ali

10/8/01

America Under Siege
by William Norman Grigg
10/8/01

Security at the Cost of Liberty?
by Nat Hentoff

10/8/01

Tap Dance With Lady Liberty
by John Balzar

10/7/01

Crucial Facts Missing From Bin Laden Charge Sheet
by Chris Blackhurst

10/7/01

A Taste of Big Brother in the US
by Jim Wurst

10/7/01

US Trampling on Principles it Holds Sacrosanct
Lebanon Daily Star

10/6/01

EU's Police State
by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

10/6/01

Think Before You Bomb
by Michael Jansen

10/6/01

Militant Mourning
by Ross Clark

10/6/01

Bush's War Plans Likely to Violate International Law
by Siddharth Varadarajan

10/5/01

Crisis Policy-Making: Immediate Action, Prolonged Regret
by Robert Higgs

10/4/01

The Disinformation Campaign
by Phillip Knightley

10/4/01

Interventionism and the War on Terrorism
by Ben Scanlon

10/3/01

US Muslims Under Attack
by Khalil Osman
10/3/01

Washington's Hydra
by Edward Miller

10/1/01

The Lost Opportunities of Liberty
by Gilles d'Aymery

9/17/01

FDR and Pearl Harbor: the FOIA Revelations
by Doug Cirignano

8/21/01

We Are Losing the War Against Terrorism
by Martin Masse

10/27/01

Poisoning the Well
by Rahul Mahajan

10/26/01

Where Terror Begins
by David Hirst
10/26/01

US Armed Forces Should Protect American Soil
by Rep. Ron Paul
10/26/01

Dangers of the Anti-Terror Bill
by Sen. Russ Feingold

10/25/01

Political Problems Loom Large in US War on Terrorism
by Holger Jensen

10/25/01

Knee-Jerk Fear Threatens What America Stands For
by Leonard Pitts, Jr.
10/25/01

Taking a Step Back
by Gene Callahan

10/25/01

Report on Belarus Elections
British Helsinki Human Rights Group

10/25/01

US Policy Has Betrayed Afghan Women for 20 Years
by Glenn Sacks
10/24/01

Killing Our Own Kind
by Leon Felkins

10/24/01

New Anti-Terrorism Law Poses Old Risks
by Peter Swire

10/24/01

Forget Afghanistan: Saudi is the Prize
by Michael Klare
10/24/01

We Are Being Reoccupied
by Mustafa Barghouthi

10/23/01

Making the Same Old Mistakes
by Stanley Heller

10/23/01

Making Terrorists
by George Szamuely

10/23/01

'Two Cheers for Nation-Building'?
by Jude Wanniski

10/23/01

Beware of Sunshine Patriots
by Steve Kubby
10/23/01

Dissent
by Michael Hasty

10/22/01

The CNN of the Arab World Deserves Our Respect
by Hussein Ibish & Ali Abunimah

10/22/01

Obsession With Bin Laden Crosses All Frontiers
by Robert Fisk

10/22/01

Against the Neo-Conservative Empire
by Derek Copold
10/21/01

What To Do About Afghanistan?
by Steven Sailer

10/21/01

Mystery Over Our Role in Terrorist War
by Brian Toohey
10/21/01

A Half-Baked Plan to Oust Saddam
by Christopher Brauchli

10/20/01

Is the Defense of Liberty Unpatriotic?
by Jason Sorens
10/20/01

We Will Not Be Silenced
by George Galloway, MP
10/20/01

It's the Devil's Own War – Ask the Vietcong
by Mark Baker

10/20/01

'Anti-Americanism' Has Roots in US Foreign Policy
by Mushahid Hussain
10/20/01

Assassinations and the West's Collective Short Memory
by Ramzy Baroud
10/19/01

The Failure of Government
by Joseph Farah

10/19/01

Old Wars, New Liberties, and US Foreign Policy
by Rick Salutin

10/19/01

A Two-Pronged Approach
by Russmo

10/19/01

War on Terror vs. Bill of Rights
by Don Wright

10/19/01

A Model for the Horror: Reflections on September 11 and Trident
by Stephen Vincent Kobasa

10/18/01

Arabs' Growing Unease
by Michael Jansen

10/18/01

Only One Way to Protect Against Anthrax Attacks
Libertarian Party

10/18/01

Explaining Madness
by Gene Callahan

10/18/01

A Grubby, Vengeful War
by Madeleine Bunting
10/18/01

Hearts and Minds: Avoiding a New Cold War
by Rahul Mahajan and Robert Jensen
10/18/01

Taliban Get the Good News and the Bad News
by Art Jones

10/18/01

In the Name of Emergency
by Robert Higgs

10/17/01

Afghans are Victims of US Terrorism
Irish Times

10/17/01

Unleashing Hell
by Ramzi Kysia

10/17/01

The Afghan Quagmire Beckons
by Christopher Deliso

10/17/01

Asking All the Wrong Questions
by Ramzy Baroud

10/16/01

Invading Iraq Would Turn a Small Threat Into a Big One
by Steve Chapman

10/16/01

They're Rich, They're Spoiled, They're Supporting Terrorists
by Robert Scheer

10/16/01

Into the Big Muddy – Again?
by Pat Buchanan

10/16/01

An America Above the Law
by Jonathan Power

10/15/01

A Plan to Fight Terrorism
by Stephen Gowans
10/15/01

For Palestinians, Terrorism Crisis Has Two Faces
by Hussein Ibish & Ali Abunimah

10/15/01

Sharon May Find Himself on the Wrong Side of History
by David Hirst

10/15/01

Slaughter of Innocents
by Robert Fisk

10/15/01

'With Us or Against Us' is a False Dichotomy
by William Raspberry

10/14/01

A Defining Moment in US History
by Asad Abukhalil

10/14/01

Free Speech Has Become a War Casualty
by Dalton Camp

10/14/01

Seeds Sown 80 Years Ago
by Christopher Matthews

10/14/01

War Fever
by Steve Benson

10/13/01

War At Home: Gov't Censorship, Secrecy, and Lies
by Patrick Martin
10/13/01

The Naïveté in Asking 'Why Do They Hate Us So Much?'
by Kenneth Zapp

10/13/01

Why the US Can't Lean on Saudi Arabia
by James Ridgeway

10/12/01

Two Civilizations Entwined in History
by William Dalrymple

10/12/01

Killing Them Softly: Starvation and Dollar Bills for Afghan Kids
by Norman Solomon

10/12/01

Absorbing the Lessons of 9/11
by Rick Salutin

10/12/01

New Kind of War: 'We're Making It Up As We Go Along'
by William Hartung
10/12/01

Sharon's Strategy Would Lead to World War
by Samuel Francis
10/12/01

Our Liberties Must Not Be Compromised
by Ray Masters

10/11/01

The Clash of Ignorance
by Edward Said
10/11/01

West Risks Culpability for a Massive Tragedy
by Dominic Nutt

10/11/01

History Weighs Heavily Against Foreign Intervention
by Richard Lloyd Perry
10/11/01

Bombs No Substitute for Justice
by Vincent Brown

10/10/01

What About the Children?
by Jacob Hornberger

10/10/01

This is a Caring War – We Weep as We Bomb
by Terence Blacker
10/10/01

ID Card: Password to the Police State
by Phyllis Schlafly

10/10/01

Do Drug Users Fund Global Terrorism?
by Sam MacDonald

10/9/01

The Empire Strikes Back
by Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair

10/9/01

West Ignores Arab Resentment at Its Peril
by David Hirst
10/9/01

Folly of Aid and Bombs
by George Monbiot

10/9/01

Anti-Terror Misfires on Home Front
by Paul Craig Roberts

10/8/01

Air War
by Michael Young

10/8/01

Land War Land Mines
by Paul Greenberg

10/8/01

A War of Lies
by Rahul Mahajan & Robert Jensen

10/8/01

Ariel Sharon Declares War on US
by Uri Avnery

10/8/01

This War is a Festival of Lies
by Peter Preston

10/8/01

Premature Articulation?
by Geoff Metcalf

10/8/01

Is It Worth It?
by Joseph Sobran

10/8/01

Hold Back the Dogs of War
by Matthew Rothschild

10/7/01

Theater of the Absurd
Jordan Times

10/7/01

Our Afghan Warlords
by Jonathan Steele

10/6/01

Mr. Rumsfeld's Wars
by John Taylor

10/6/01

Blair's Evidence is Nothing But Old News Clips and Leaps of Logic
by Stephen Gowans

10/6/01

Now Is Not the Time to Stifle Debate
by Rachel Giese

10/5/01

Lynch Mob Justice or a Proper Trial
by Geoffrey Robertson

10/5/01

The Fear of Thinking
by Rick Salutin

10/5/01

Collateral Damage is a Terroristic Tool
by Charley Reese

10/1/01

A Checkerboard of Oil and Landmines
by Dimitris Yannopoulos
9/29/01

Unlikely Doves: Counter-terrorism Experts
by David Corn

9/28/01

A War Against Whom?
by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad

9/27/01

Bin Laden's Secret Goal is to Overthrow the House of Saud
by Paul Michael Wihbey

9/27/01

US Government Has Provoked Hatred
by Charley Reese

9/19/01

Will the Laws Fall Silent?
by William Norman Grigg

9/18/01

The People of Afghanistan Have Nothing To Do With Bin Laden
RAWA

9/12/01

How War Amplified Federal Power in the Twentieth Century
by Robert Higgs
7/1/99

And Now Afghanistan
by Murray Rothbard

1/1/80

With a Friend Like Pakistan
by Christopher Deliso

10/27/01

Nobody Should Have to Die Like This
by Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha
10/26/01

The Conservative Descent into Moral Bankruptcy
by Jacob Hornberger

10/26/01

War Needs Good Public Relations
by Norman Solomon

10/26/01

The Great Euro-American Plot
by John Laughland

10/26/01

Landmines By Any Other Name
by Simon Jenkins

10/26/01

Stop Killing Civilians
The News International (Pakistan)

10/25/01

Strategic Annihilation
by Joseph Stromberg

10/25/01

Joint Statement by Major Muslim Organizations Regarding the War on Afghanistan
10/24/01

Security, But Not Over Freedom
St. Petersburg Times

10/24/01

'On-to-Baghdad!' or 'Stop at Kabul!'?
by Pat Buchanan
10/23/01

America's Pipe Dream
by George Monbiot

10/23/01

'Enduring War' May Last Forever
by Ira Chernus

10/23/01

Rituals of Adulation
by Sean Gonsalves

10/23/01

Horowitz Gives a Poor History Lesson
by Glenn Sacks

10/23/01

Military Might Won't Transform Muslim Culture
by Marvin Olasky

10/23/01

As Refugees Crowd the Border, We Will Blame Someone Else
by Robert Fisk

10/23/01

Iraq, Anthrax, and the Hawks
by Matthew Rothschild

10/22/01

'New Kind of Battle' Playing Out Like Any Other
by Richard Cooper

10/22/01

National ID Card is a Ticket to Erosion of Our Privacy
by Robert Levy

10/21/01

Balkan Branches of the Terror Network?
by Nikolaos Stavrou

10/21/01

Lambs to the Slaughter
by Mary Riddell

10/21/01

'Who is This Kafka People Keep Mentioning?'
by Deborah Sontag

10/21/01

War is Peace
by Arundhati Roy
10/21/01

Andrew Sullivan's Jihad
by David Talbot

10/20/01

Guerrilla Tactics
by Ryan McMaken

10/20/01

Congress Doesn't Know if We Are At War
by Tim Carney
10/20/01

Anthrax, Mujaheddin and the CIA
by David Corn

10/19/01

Time to Build Bridges
by Ziad Asali

10/19/01

We Can’t Win This Way
by Lew Rockwell

10/19/01

Why Do They Want to Kill Us?
by Jacob G. Hornberger
10/19/01

This War is Not a Moral Enterprise
by Natasha Walter
10/19/01

Military War Pouring Kerosene on the Fire
by Sue Wareham
10/19/01

Don't Blame Saddam for This One
by Scott Ritter

10/19/01

In Defense of Al-Jazeera
by Michael Moran

10/18/01

Profiles in... Something
New York Post

10/18/01

Bin Laden’s Modest Goals
by Joseph Sobran

10/18/01

Protect the Bill of Rights
by Joe Michael Cobb

10/18/01

The Folly of Nation-Building in Afghanistan
by Gary Dempsey
10/17/01

An Interview with the 'Traitor' Sontag
by David Talbot

10/17/01

Afghanistan: We Didn't Have To Do This
by Stephanie Salter
10/17/01

In Bed With Bob Barr
by Nicholas Confessore
10/17/01

Not a Weapon of Choice
by Dr. Graham Pearson

10/17/01

Has the US Walked Into a Trap in Afghanistan?
by Randolph Holhut

10/17/01

3 Arguments Against This War
by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

10/17/01

Make Net, Not War
by Claude Leblanc

10/16/01

The Balance of Power vs. the Balanced Budget
by Gary North
10/16/01

What Can We Do About Terrorism?
by Robert Bowman

10/16/01

War Without Frontiers
by Steve Perry

10/16/01

War Misgivings
by Sheldon Richman

10/16/01

Don't Repeat the Misery Inflicted on the Iraqis
by Archbishop George Carey
10/16/01

For a Limited Military Response
Libertarian Party

10/15/01

Stop the Bombing
by Ed McManus

10/15/01

Is an Oil Pipeline Behind the War in Afghanistan?
by Bill Sardi

10/15/01

Building Empire Shouldn't Be Goal
Jacksonville Daily News

10/15/01

Yes, There is an Alternative to Bombing Afghanistan
by Tariq Ali
10/15/01

Military Might Can't Quiet Our Fears
by Marie Cocco

10/14/01

Loyalty Doesn't Mean Suppression of Dissent
by Vicki Haddock
10/14/01

Will a Few Holes in the Runway of Kandahar Airport Make a Difference?
by Robert Fisk
10/14/01

Escape From the Logic of War
by Pierre Lemieux

10/13/01

Satellites Tell the Truth
by Reed Irvine

10/13/01

Bin Laden's Reality TV
Boulder Daily Camera

10/13/01

America, Oil, and Afghanistan
by Sitaram Yechury

10/13/01

It's The Constitution, Stupid!
by Steve Kubby
10/13/01

Networks Accept Gov't 'Guidance'
FAIR

10/12/01

Too Late?
by Joseph Sobran
10/12/01

The Bin Laden Tapes
by Dale McFeatters

10/12/01

The Peace Movement Needs to Update Its Message
by Lance Dickie

10/12/01

Bombing Only Will Bring Further Terrorism
by Imran Khan
10/12/01

Present Proof Before Attacking Iraq
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

10/11/01

Bush and Blair Have Become Bin Laden's Recruiting Sergeants
by Seumas Milne

10/11/01

Suddenly, Terrorists Are Everywhere
by Christopher Deliso
10/11/01

Who is Copying Who in War of Words?
by Robert Fisk

10/11/01

What Is To Be Done?
by Steve Perry

10/10/01

US Foreign Policy: Fertile Ground That Feeds Terrorism
by Marc Bumgarner

10/10/01

Government Trust Grows Despite Its Inability to Protect
by James Bovard

10/10/01

Proud To Be Antiwar
by Lewis Green

10/10/01

Into Pakistan's Maelstrom
by Tariq Ali

10/10/01

They Opted to Bomb, It Had Better Work
by Simon Jenkins

10/10/01

Russia Must Not Rely on Georgia for Security
by Andrei Yegorov

10/9/01

Musharraf on the Brink
by Cedric Muhammad

10/9/01

Enemies Within
by Scott McConnell

10/9/01

Conflict Will Follow Taliban's Fall
Stratfor.com

10/9/01

Say What You Want, But This War is Illegal
by Michael Mandel

10/9/01

Lost in the Rhetorical Fog of War
by Robert Fisk

10/9/01

Historical Explanation and Moral Justification
by Gene Callahan

10/8/01

TV News: A Miltarized Zone
by Norman Solomon

10/8/01

Pot Calling the Kettle Black
by Philip Agee

10/8/01

The War Begins
by Steve Perry

10/8/01

Bush Laden
by Jared Israel

10/8/01

War Disturbs the Most Dangerous Part of the World
by Robert Fisk
10/8/01

Our Friends are Killers, Crooks and Torturers
by Robert Fisk
10/7/01

Two Who Voted Against War, 60 Years Apart
by Theo Lippman, Jr.

10/7/01

Missionary Tony and his Holy British Empire
by Andrew Rawnsley

10/7/01

The Choice Before Us: America or Amerika?
by Jeff Elkins

10/6/01

If the US Hates Terrorists, Why Do We Keep Arming Them?
by Steve Dasbach

10/5/01

Is the No-Fly Zone Worth Dying For?
by Jacob Hornberger

10/5/01

The Risks of Liberty
by Devon Munro

10/5/01

Terrorism and Blind Faith in Government
by James Bovard

10/5/01

Let's End Terror of Killing Now, Before Its Too Late
by Tom Turnipseed

10/4/01

Show Us The Evidence
by Joe Pitts

10/3/01

Another Broken Campaign Promise
by Reed Irvine & Joe Jablonski

9/25/01

War and the Music Censors
by Dave Marsh

9/20/01

Close Bases Overseas, Not Just at Home
by Kyle Lohmeier

9/9/01

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