Whither Desire?

By Nancy Wartik || Crosspost with The AARP Magazine \\ November & December 2007 The lust is gone. The fires are out. What happened? Is there anything you can do to rekindle love’s passion? *Names of interviewees and their partners have been changed for privacy. When she was in her 30s, Margaret Monaghan* ended a [...]

Bush’s Shadow Army

BY JEREMY SCAHILL Bush’s “Whores of War,” or, maybe, more appropriate, the boys from the “Coalition of the Billing.” TOPICS OF PERMANENT INTEREST Crosspost at THE NATION, where it originally appeared, and to whom we are grateful: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070402/scahill_vid [first posted online on March 15, 2007] Jeremy Scahill reports on the Bush Administration’s growing dependence on [...]

It’s the Resistance, Stupid

The Iraqi resistance may merely want the Americans and other westerners out of Iraq, but bin Laden’s goal is more ample: to rid the entire Middle East of “crusader” influence. Though bin Laden is an unapologetic religious fundamentalist, it is his nationalist “foreign policy” that gains him as many supporters among the Arab masses as [...]

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