by Robert Brenner | May 7, 2003 | News, Papers
At 6 am on 12 June 2002, four FBI agents barged into the SoHo loft of Samuel Waksal, the former CEO of the biotech company ImClone Systems Inc, and led him away in handcuffs: he was charged with insider trading. His father and daughter had dumped nearly 175,000...
by Noam Chomsky | May 7, 2003 | Papers
This interview was originally published by ZNet and is reproduced with kind permission.1) Why did the U.S. invade Iraq, in your view?These are naturally speculations, and policy makers may have varying motives. But we can have a high degree of confidence about the...
by Paul McGeough | May 7, 2003 | Papers
I spoke to the silver-haired old man again today. Up and down, he’s been my barometer on the mood in Baghdad. He was eager for the overthrow of the regime, but tearful when his daughter miscarried during the early US bombing and shattered when his nephew was...
by Robert Blecher | May 7, 2003 | Papers
‘Free people will set the course of history’ As the Bush administration struggled to find a justification for launching an attack on Iraq, churning out sketchy intelligence reports about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and links with al-Qaeda,...
by Kevin Rudd | May 7, 2003 | Papers
Governance’The question today is not whether or not we want to have globalisation,’ observed the former Socialist Prime Minister of France, Lionel Jospin, during an official visit to Japan in December 1999. ‘Globalisation’, said Jospin,...
by Clive Hamilton | May 7, 2003 | Papers
Towards a post-growth societyFor the great majority of people in rich countries the human condition is no longer dominated by an ever-present need to provide for survival and to accumulate assets to guard against lean times. The defining struggle is no longer between...
