01 October 2001

Which side are you on, girls?

By Suzanne Moore

War on Terror: Women - Talk of war has sidelined women. That's because they don't see the world in black and white, argues Suzanne Moore

Where were you in the war, Dick Cheney?

By Andrew Stephen

War on Terror: Washington - Many of the Americans and Britons now baying for blood never fought in a war. Colin Powell did: could this explain his doveish stand?

We can save the new world order

By John Lloyd

War on Terror: The Big Picture - The left must revive the drive for "cosmopolitan democracy", giving voice to the excluded billions. It will fail if it persists in anti-Americanism

Make the computers work first!

By Nick Cohen

War on Terror: Civil Liberties - Anti-terrorist laws nearly always scoop up the innocent and the harmless. Nick Cohen argues that there are simpler ways to improve our security

A game of smoke and mirrors

By John Elliott

War on Terror: Pakistan - Pakistan finances the Taliban, and provides essential supplies - or so some people say. John Elliottasks who is leading whom by the nose in Asia

The real Muslim extremists

By Tariq Ali

War on Terror: Saudi Arabia - Bin Laden and his gang are just the tentacles; the head lies safely in Saudi Arabia, protected by US forces

You can teach us how to behave

By Bonnie Greer

War on Terror: Britain & America - Bonnie Greer, US-born, argues that this is Britain's hour when it must lead America to wisdom

End the special relationship now . . .

By Sarah Helm

War on Terror: Israel - No, not the British-US one, the real one. The US always supports Israel at the UN and gives it one-sixth of its entire foreign aid budget

Young, educated - and dangerous?

By Johann Hari

War on Terror: Anti-Globalisation Movement - Amid website ramblings, a proposal for an alliance: between fundamentalists and anti-capitalists. Johann Hari finds affinities between the two movements

What Blair could learn from history

By Robert Taylor

War on Terror: The Labour Party - Labour's ranks have included admirers of Thomas Hobbes as well as outright pacifists

Could this be Labour's poll tax?

By George Monbiot

Labour Conference 2001: Privatisation - Raw sewage in operating theatres; £25 a week for patients to watch TV; ten-hour waits in casualty. The cause? NHS privatisation

New Labour and proud of it

By Francis Beckett

Labour Conference 2001: The Gen Sec - The most famous student rebel of 1968, and later a Communist Party member, David Triesman now chants the Blair line faultlessly. Francis Beckett reports

Second term issues

By Jackie Ashley

Labour Conference 2001: 2nd Term Issues - What should Labour have achieved in 2005, when the next general election will be in sight? What (apart from terrorist activity) will preoccupy ministers most over the next three to four years? In this special feature, our political editor Jackie Ashley introduces reports from top specialists in transport, poverty, race, education and health

Here we are again: the same old footage of planes against the sunrise, the same military jargon used by reporters

By John Pilger

War on Terror: The Media

Well, I never! Even the great capitalist Warren Buffett now wants the state to play a bigger role

By Robert Peston

War on Terror: The Economy

Paul Routledge

By Paul Routledge

Until the cooks rule, Trinidad will not be a paradise

By Darcus Howe

I now skilfully pee, clean my teeth and read the paper, all at the same time

By Lauren Booth

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