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I’m a conflicted feminist
Cary Tennis
My family taught me to be an independent woman, but now they want me to find a man.
The world press on the war
Compiled by Laura McClure
The Israel paper Haaretz reports that thousands of Arab volunteers
are pouring across the Syrian border into northern Iraq to fight.
Talking with the enemy
Phillip Robertson
The thin men sitting in the hut are the lucky ones: Iraqi soldiers who escaped U.S. bombs and Saddam's "execution committees."
Down from the mountains to die
Phillip Robertson
Three Islamist zealots descend a mountain in a driving rainstorm to kill their Kurdish enemies -- and themselves.
The world press on the war
Compiled by Laura McClure
A senior editor for aljazeera.net says his station is a threat to American media control -- and blames the Pentagon for shutting down the site.
Bush’s human rights hypocrisy
Salon Staff
An Amnesty International report slams the U.S. for insisting that the Geneva Conventions apply in Iraq, but not in Guantanamo.
The world press on the war
Compiled by Laura McClure
Destroying Iraqi civilians in the name of liberating them is an obscenity, one U.K. newspaper says.
Make wanderlust, not war
Jeff Greenwald
Americans should stop listening to the fear-mongers and travel overseas. It's the best way to start bringing the U.S. back into the world community.
The war in the dark
Phillip Robertson
In the north, the Kurds watch the Turks and wait for a decisive U.S. strike against Iraqi forces -- and meanwhile hold their fire.
Iraq’s X factor: The tribes
Ferry Biedermann
More than three-quarters of Iraqis belong to tribes. Some of them have been paid off or threatened into backing Saddam -- but their real allegiance is to themselves.
Bush’s colonialist agenda
Robert Scheer
If the United States fails to unearth weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, imperial designs will stand exposed as the true cause of war.
The undead
Jake Tapper
U.S. and British officials keep insisting that Iraqi TV images of Saddam and his top cohorts are fake. But reports of their demise seem premature.
“Terror and Liberalism” by Paul Berman
Ellen Willis
An important liberal thinker argues that Islamic fundamentalism is the new face of fascism. But his faith in the Bush administration as a force for freedom is naive.
Is the CIA spamming Iraqi generals?
Farhad Manjoo
It's the latest in high-tech psychological warfare: E-mail and voice-mail invitations to surrender. But so far there are few signs that the strategy is working.
“Saddam Is an Idiot, but He’s Right About Bush”
Salon Staff
Readers are divided on an interview with Paul Berman, the author of "Terror and Liberalism."
The real face of war
Neal Gabler
The pictures of killed and captured American troops reveal the dreadful truth about war -- one the docile "embedded" press corps won't touch.
The Arab street explodes
Michelle Goldberg
The U.S. war with Iraq is interpreted as an attack on Islam and Arabs, as violent protests erupt around the world.
Bush is an idiot, but he was right about Saddam
Suzy Hansen
Paul Berman, one of the most provocative thinkers on the left, has a message for the antiwar movement: Stop marching and start fighting to spread liberal values in the Middle East.
Operation Inflate the Coalition
Jake Tapper
During the last Gulf War, 32 nations sent troops. This time around, 3 nations did. So how is Donald Rumsfeld claiming Operation Iraqi Freedom is larger than the '91 coalition?
Generation gung-ho
Ian R. Williams
Many of the 42 million Americans aged 12-24 think President Bush is "a little dumb," but they are more pro-war than you might think.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
A conservative columnist compares Bush to Hitler. Plus: Neocons herald the next phase of the war -- Down with the U.N.!
Should celebrity activists shut up for now?
Kerry Lauerman
Janeane Garofalo and Bill Maher have both opposed the war with Iraq. But now that the fighting has started, they offer contrasting prescriptions for protest.
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