It is 12 January 2003 and US president Bush has rallied his troops for what he calls “The first war of the 21st century”. What is your view of this crisis, where, briefly, do you stand? This is the question we are putting to people around the world, especially those with their own public reputatio
The event Ambiguities of Intervention: Iraq and After was held at NYU on 22 November, 2002.
For an account of the
panel debate, see:
Ending the silence.
Its the
The Bush administrations manifesto of 17 September, The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (NSSUSA), is a gift to antiAmericans everywhere. This sweeping declaration of
Readers of openDemocracy will, I hope, have consulted the lucid debate in the Media strand on the impact of giant conglomerates and whether they are a threat to democracy. My
Having achieved legitimacy after 11 September by invoking the principle of self-defense, a principle that no nation willingly foregoes, the US threatens to cast legitimacy overboard as a luxury it
Did you know Bob Dylan was nominated for the Nobel Prize four times?, stage-whispered a young student, sitting behind me at Madison Square Garden on November 19, as we waited
As the thick gray ash of the World Trade Center poured down on Manhattan, Americans were moved by messages of solidarity from every land. “We Are All New Yorkers”, we
Friday morning, I take the subway down the west side of Manhattan to the edge of the smoking ruin. As, we inch through one shut–down station and then another,
Of all I have seen and heard in the last days, the story I most want to tell is this:
Thursday afternoon, around 5, my wife and I went down
In front of fire stations candles are burning, hand-printed messages propped up: THANK YOU TO OUR HEROIC FIRE FIGHTERS. (Possibly one in fifteen or twenty of them died in the
A fog of terrorism has settled on us – America, New York, everyone I know. Affliction by the phantasmagorical. Dull fear – fear of what’s already happened, fear of the future.
It has fallen to me to exercise my prerogative as one of the editors of openDemocracys Media strand to contribute a summation from the USA though I hope no
