41 years inside the Beltway, out of the loop, and ahead of the curve. . . We published first person reports from the Mississippi pivotal civil rights summer of 1964. We opposed the war in Vietnam We strongly supported the civil rights movement. In 1965 we called for the end of the draft. We proposed bikeways in the 1960s. We proposed community policing in the 1960s We opposed and helped stop the planned freeway system that would have made DC like an east coast Los Angeles. Beginning in the 1970s, we argued that the war on drugs would not work. It hasn't. We argued for light rail and other transit alternatives in the 1970s that were later widely adopted. In the 1960s we proposed neighborhood councils similar to the ones DC would get in 1974. We proposed that DC become a state, an article that led to the creation of the DC Statehood Party. Years later both the Washington Post and the NY Times editorially endorsed the idea. In the 1970s we published a first person anonymous account of a then illegal abortion. We argued that the historic buildings on and around Pennsylvania Avenue (running from the White House to the Capitol) should be saved contrary to official plans of the time. These plans were eventually reversed and the buildings were saved. We published an expose of DC property tax assessments that helped spur a successful class action suit changing the way property is assessed. In the 1980s we ran an article on AIDs. It was the first year that more than 1,000 men would die of the disease. In the 1980s, Thomas S Martin predicted that "Yugoslavia will eventually break up" and that "a challenge to the centralized soviet state" would occur as a result of devolutionary trends. Both happened. In the 1980s, we reported on the dangers of computerized voting and suggests possible solutions including an independent review of software and an adequate audit trail. Our 1990 article on savings & loan bailout scandal was selected by Utne Reader as one of the ten most undercovered stories of the past decade. In the early 1990s the Review ran a six page timeline of questionable activities by the Bush family. At the time it attracted little attention but is now one of the Review's most read features. Months before the 1992 Democratic convention, the Review became the first publication to report in depth on what would become known as the Clinton scandals. It listed more than a score of institutions and individuals - nearly all of whom would be linked to criminal misdoing before the end of the Clinton administration The Review started an web edition in 1995 when there were only 100,000 web sites worldwide. Today there are 45 million. In the 1990s, the Review, as part of its strong ecological reporting, warned of possible warming of the Gulf Stream and its consequences to Europe. We opposed both Iraq wars.

The Progressive Review is the latest iteration of one of America's longest lasting alternative journals. It was begun by Sam Smith in 1964 as The Idler when there were just a handful of such publications in the U.S. It morphed into the DC Gazette in 1969 and became the Progressive Review in 1985. It began publishing an email edition in 1994 and started a website in 1995.

Sam Smith has been editing alternative journals longer than almost anyone in the country and has been covering Washington for almost as long as anyone in the capital. He started in 1957 as a 19 year old radio reporter covering everything from fires and murders to the White House and Capitol Hill.

He has also written four books and helped to start six organizations including two political parties (national Green and DC Statehood).

Sam Smith is a writer, activist and social critic who has been at the forefront of new ideas and new politics for several decades.

- He is the author of four highly acclaimed books, the latest of which is Why Bother?

- Was one of the organizers of the Association of State Green Parties and, in the 1970s, was a co-founder of the DC Statehood Party, which held public office for more than two decades. He also helped to found the DC Community Humanities Council.

-- Has had articles published in the Washington Post, Washington Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Jose Mercury News, Harper's Magazine, Planning Magazine, Illustrated London News, Washington World, Regardies Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Washington Monthly, Washington Tribune, City Paper, Nashville Scene, Washington History, Designer/Builder, Progressive Populist, North Coast Express, Yes!, Potomac Review, Time Out London and Utne Reader

-- He is a native Washingtonian who covered his first Washington story in 1957 . He has been an elected neighborhood commissioner, home & school association president, Coast Guard officer, semi-professional musician, and plaintiff in seven public interest law suits, three of them successful.

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FOOTBALL & THE RISE OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM Long before George Bush, and in the comfort of his den on Sunday afternoon, the author saw the American empire coming

ELITE ETHNOGRAPHY ARCHIVES

SKULL & BONES

THE CLINGONS AND
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ON PLANET POTOMAC

PRACTICING ANTHROPOLOGY WITHOUT A LICENSE

THE RISE OF A LIBERAL ARISTOCRACY AND THE FALL OF AMERICA: The collapse of liberalism and what's it has cost the country

CIVIL SOCIETY: They say they want civil society; what they really want is for you to shut up. An uncivil look at the civil socialites. 

THE CLUB: How Washington really operates

THE AUTISTIC CONFEDERACY Why Washington doesn't work

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FLOGGING THE BLOGS WON'T CLEAR THE FOG

THE REAL GARY WEBB STORY

REBEL: Written on your editor's 40th anniversary as an alternative journalist

JOURNALISM'S GOOD OLD DAYS: They never were like some would have us believe

LETTER TO THE WASHINGTON POST: Some years back the Washington Post asked TPR's editor for some advice. It was the last time.

USA TOMORROW:: What would a really good daily newspaper look like? TPR offers a vision unlike any other -- including actual news!

THE CANONIZATION OF KATHARINE GRAHAM

WHY JOURNALISM ISN'T A PROFESSION

TRASHING THE TRUTH Clinton may be the Dr. Kervorkian of the right-to-lie movement but he's not alone. This well-received article discusses the role of truth and falsehood in today's society.

WHY THEY HATE OLIVER STONE: An essay on the politics of myth and its role in an age of propaganda.

CLINTON & THE MEDIA Why did the media so misread Clinton? In Shadows of Hope, Review editor Sam Smith took on the question early in Clinton's administration.

THE LONELIEST MILE IN TOWN Your editor's adventures in apostasy -- drinking upstream from the Clinton herd

IMPEACHABLE DEFENSES How the media helped Clinton get away with it.

MEDIA STORY ARCHIVES

BEHIND THE BUSHES

HOW BUSH GOT BOUNCED
FROM CARLYLE BOARD

THE BUSH BOOK THE MEDIA DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT

BUSHWHACKS: How Bush is hurting the country

ESSAYS: THE BUSH YEARS

THE COLIN POWELL FILE  My Lai, Panama, Gulf War I & invading America's high schools

SHADOWS OF HOPE

Published by Indiana University Press in 1994, this was the first book to raise serious questions about the character and politics of Bill Clinton. Said one reviewer, "I had to be forcibly restrained from quoting yards of it." Order direct from THE REVIEW

CAPTIVE CAPITAL

Published 30 years ago, Captive Capital is still considered a must read for people wishing to learn the history, culture and politics of Washington DC. Covers the period from before the riots to the granting of a locally elected government. Also chapters on local history, neighborhoods, ethnicity and statehood.

Captive Capital could be an excellent gift for any friend just moving to town. Or any friend who has managed to live here for some time without learning anything about Washington . . . One of the few efforts I have seen that manages to deal with black people and white people without insulting either, and without appearing to be written for one or the other. -- Bill Raspberry, Washington Post

Smith's analysis of the class dimensions in the community challenges the clichés and generalizations that most white writers stumble over. . . Altogether, the book presents a fascinating story of history-in-the-making. It is absolutely 'must' reading for all who are interested in this city's history, its political or private life, or the contributions and personal assets of both the black masses and the black leaders. -- James Tinney, Afro-American

You can can order it direct from the Review

INTRODUCTION

GEORGETOWN: A child of contradictions

GHOSTS: The ubiquitous past

BECOMING: Playing with and putting away childish things

FRIENDS A Quaker education

SUMMER: PART I
SUMMER: PART II

MAGNA CUM PROBATION: Falling from grace at Harvard U

THE CANARIES IN STUDIO A  in which a young radio reporter learns a lot about the media and Washington in a short time.

SUSPECT: The author becomes a 23-year-old suspected spy.

HOOLIGAN DAYS: A memoir of the Coast Guard

SEEDS The 60s before they became the 60s; in which your editor discovers the civil rights and anti-war movements.

HOW THE TROUBLE BEGAN: A long adventure in alternative journalism began in the mid-sixties

FIRE: The Washington riots and other suspensions of hope

PLACE: The battle for local power

DC DIARY: THE SEVENTIES

DC DIARY: THE EARLY EIGHTIES

DC DIARY: THE LATE EIGHTIES

DCDIARY: THE NINETIES

THE LONELIEST MILE IN TOWN: An adventure in apostasy -- drinking upstream from the Clinton herd

GROWING GREEN The birth of a movement

DC DIARY: THE NEW CENTURY

REBEL

ESSAYS I

• What I learned on my vacation
• A use is found for cricket
• What will NPR hath wrought?
• How to go from possible evil doer to likely victim in just four hours
• The journalist's job
• Why you don't have to care about Michael Jackson
• The right to abuse
• John Wiebenson
• A tale of two police chiefs
• Role model
• My summer
• In defense of bass players
• Summer reading
• My late Aunt Kate
• Time warp
• Entropy beat
• Telling the story
• John Cole
• Snow job.

ESSAYS II

• NEW YORK & MONTANA
• WHEN POLICE RIOT
• GAME OF CHANCE
  Playing the odds with prostate cancer
• WHAT I DID ON MY VACATION
• 45 YEARS LATER
  Nearly a half century in Washington
• JURY DUTY
• THE BOSNIAN WAR
  DOCTORS AND DESTROYERS
  WRITING ABOUT WAR
• THE NY TIMES VISITS MAINE
• WHAT TIM MCVEIGH AND I HAD IN COMMON

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Complete or partial collections of back issues of the Idler, Gazette, and Review can be found in libraries at Brown, Connecticut, Delaware, George Washington, Georgetown, Maryland, Michigan, Northwestern, Tulane, and Virginia Commonwealth universities. Also at the Buffalo-Erie, Washington DC, and New York public libraries as well as the collection of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The early DC Gazette is available on microfilm through University Microfilm. The papers of Sam Smith are in the Washingtoniana division of the Martin Luther King Jr. Library, Washington DC.

A FEW KIND WORDS FOR THE WHITE AMERICAN MALE

ELITE ETHNOGRAPHY

AMERICAN NOTES ARCHIVES: Notes for an ethnography of America

PUNK AND PROTEST The beat, busted, bruised, & bamboozled generation

A SHORT HISTORY OF BLACK WASHINGTON

AMERICA THE TOUGH

RELIGION ARCHIVES

LOSING TIME, LOSING SPACE: The politics of other dimensions

THINGS IRISH-AMERICAN PROTESTANTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IRELAND

PRACTICING ANTHROPOLOGY WITHOUT A LICENSE

HOW TO GET ALONG WITH OTHER AMERICANS: Living Next Door to 290 Million Folks Who Aren't Quite Like You.

IN TECHNOCRACY WE TRUST Most Americans may profess Christianity but it's technocracy that they practice

OTHER MATTERS

BACK TO INDEX

ENTROPY UPDATE

HOW TO KEEP PEOPLE GOING TO MUSEUMS

40 YEARS OF THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW

HOW MUCH DO WE LEARN FROM EVIL?

WHERE ARE THE CHRISTIAN MODERATES?

AN ALTERNATIVE 9/11 REPORT

MISSISSIPPI SUMMER 1964

POCKET PARADIGMS: A few words about a lot of stuff

PSALM OF THE FAST LANE

WORDS & CRUELTY

REBEL: Written on your editor's 40th anniversary as an alternative journalist

CLICHE CHALLENGE: the top cliches as counted by Google

CATO ON THE VIRTUES OF OLD AGE

IN TECHNOCRACY WE TRUST
Americans may profess Christianity but it's technocracy that they practice

HAT TRICK An existential approach to the current crisis.

THE BIG PAGE: Items of interest to big folk

A SURFEIT OF PRIGS

MINUTES OF THE CONFERENCE: planning the Holocaust

THE LUDDITES OF MICROSOFT Making machines that smash themselves

REBELLION Without revolution and rebellion we would let mating and mutation do their thing. Instead, regularly dissatisfied with our condition, our body, our home, and our government we overthrow genetics through application of imagination, dreams, ambition, skill, perseverance, and strength. Every new idea is an act of rebellion, every work of art, every stretch for something we couldn't do before, every question that begins "what if. . ."

FREE THOUGHTS: Sam Smith's favorite quotations

GADFLIES: Call TPR's editor anything you want; only don't call him a gadfly. Here's why.

HISTORY OF THE REVIEW: A short summary of where we came from and what we've done 

DESPAIR  Dealing with failure and survival

CAMPUS NEWS

RELIGION & ITS ALTERNATIVES

ARTS ARCHIVES

CYBER NOTES

ARTICLES ON ACTIVISM

MINUTES OF THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE

THE ROAD TO ABU GHRAIB

CORPORATIONS VS. AMERICA. The counter-revolution of corporations against the American dream

WHOSE LAND IS IT, ANYWAY? Reflections on patriotism

HISTORY OF THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT

THE CASE FOR JURY NULLIFICATION

FASCISM, CAPITALISM & CORPORATISM

CIVIL LIBERTIES QUOTATIONS

THE CREEPING COUP News items from post-constitutional America.

THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICA

HOW YOU BECAME THE ENEMY

A FEW SIGNS OF A DEMOCRACY IN DEEP TROUBLE

WORDS ABOUT FREEDOM QUOTATIONS ON FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY

HOW TO STAY FREE

FOOLS' GOAL: ZERO TOLERANCE: How infinite intolerance of some things -- but not others -- is damaging our land

SOME KEY WACO STORIES

GIULIANI ON ART, HITLER ON ART

MARTIAL LAW Excerpts from an an article in a defense journal, Parameters

THE CRASH OF AMERICA - In 1995, the author saw trouble coming.

THE DRUG WAR

THE PARIAH ECONOMY
AND THE RISE OF SOCIAL BIGOTRY

PANNING FOR HOPE

POLITICS, DISCOURAGEMENT & DESPAIR

THINGS TO DO IN THE BAD TIMES

WHERE'S THE COUNTER CULTURE WHEN WE NEED IT

GETTING THROUGH THE BAD TIMES

BUSHWHACKS: How Bush is hurting the country

WHAT YOU WON'T FIND IN CLINTON MUSEUM

WHAT LIFE WAS REALLY LIKE UNDER LIBERAL PRESIDENTS

BOTTOM LINE: THE REAL EFFECT OF REAGANISM AND EXTREME CAPITALISM

THE DEMOCRATS' RIGHTWING FOLLIES

WHO'S VOTING RIGHT IN THE SENATE

HANDLING THE BULLIES

THE NON-POLITICAL SIDE OF POLITICS

THE EXTREMIST CENTER

THE 2004 ELECTION: FALSE FAITH DEFEATS LOUSY WORKS

THE REAL RONALD REAGAN

WHAT IF DEMOCRATS ACTED LIKE DEMOCRATS?

THE CLINTON MYTH

HISTORY'S HINTS FOR THIRD PARTIES

WHY THE DEMOCRATS ARE IN TROUBLE

FUN WAYS TO STEAL ELECTIONS

POLITICIAN ARCHIVES

• GEORGE BUSH
• WESLEY CLARK
• EX- PRES CLINTON
• PRES CLINTON
• HILLARY CLINTON
• HOWARD DEAN
• JOHN EDWARDS
• JOHN KERRY
• TERRY MCAULIFFE
• RALPH NADER
• SCHWARZENEGGER

ESSAYS: THE BUSH YEARS

OPPOSING & CREATING The twin tasks of a movement

POLITICS NEWS ARCHIVES

PUNK AND PROTEST The beat, busted, bruised, and bamboozled generation

HISTORY'S HINTS FOR DEMOCRATS

THE RISE OF A LIBERAL ARISTOCRACY AND THE FALL OF AMERICA: The collapse of liberalism and what's it has cost the country

THE CARE AND FEEDING OF A THIRD PARTY An interview with Sam Smith on the history of one of America's most durable third parties.

UNEXAMINED POLITICS Life among the liberal fundamentalists

URBAN STATEHOOD: Why American needs more states

A COOPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH: A statement of principles for Americans who believe in common sense, common decency and common ground.

CHANGING HOW URBAN PLANNING WORKS: Two charts that summarize what's wrong with urban planning and what to do about it.

WHOSE LEFT IS IT ANYWAY?

THE PARTY'S OVER

HOW TO GET ALONG WITH OTHER AMERICANS: Living Next Door to 250 Million Folks Who Aren't Quite Like You.

CROSSOVER POLITICS: A chart that illustrates why conventional views of left and right don't add up.

THE NIXON STORY YOU NEVER HEARD

MEMO TO A NEW MAYOR Advice to a newly elected politician

ALL IN THE FAMILY: What's happening in the wonderful world of political nepotism

CLINTON ADMINISTRATION SCANDALS

COUNTING THE VOTES RIGHT: Ways to rig an election and what went wrong in the 2000 election.

THE BEST OF RUDY Some of our favorite stories about Rudy Giuliani

HOW TO TELL IF YOU'RE STILL A LIBERAL: A quick test to see how far you've strayed.

INSTANT POPULISM What with the media declaring Al Gore a populist, this 1972 article on the past and prospects of populism is timely again.

WILD SHOTS: Some facts about guns a lot of people don't want to hear.

HOW TO SAVE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION A 1995 article that foresaw the trouble ahead

BEHIND THE BUSHES: Those who think we were too hard on Clinton might want to check out what we have to say about the Bush family.

GLOBAL DUMBING: THE POLITICS OF ENTROPY In this 1992 article, everything from Rick Rockwell to George W. Bush is explained, not to mention prescient

THE CASE AGAINST LEGALIZED BRIBERY: Our system of campaign financing discussed in a speech by editor Sam Smith

HOW I GOT FIRED AS A LIBERAL Your editor is one of the few certified ex-liberals in Washington.Here's how it happened.

MOB POLITICS: Three decades of political racketeering in chart form.

BUCKING THE SYSTEM: A chart that provides a concise crash course on how Americans have won and kept their freedoms.

BRINGING POLITICS HOME: An excerpt from Shadows of Hope on how politics has lost connection with people.

WAITING FOR LEFTIES: How liberals and the left hold up political change.

MORNING LINE: Our tout sheet on up-coming elections.

SHADOWS OF HOPE: The book about Bill Clinton the establishment didn't want you to read. While most of the media was fawning over the newly elected president and his wife, Review editor Sam Smith was checking out the facts. The result was the most prophetic description of Clintonism and the damage it would cause.

SOCIAL SECURITY: Our stories on Social Security tell you things the major media won't, such as why the Social Security panic is a scam.

TWO TALES OUT OF SCHOOL

SMALL SCHOOLS

BACK TO SCHOOL: Memoirs of a parent association president

SAM SMITH TALKS TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS about politics and activism

GRADUATION SPEECH: A talk given by the editor to some 8th graders.

LET 'EM PLAY: The case for extra-curricular activities

PUNK AND PROTEST: Music and action

A REAL TEST FOR YOUR SCHOOL

OUR YOUTH ARCHIVES

ECOLOGY

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SUSTAIN YOURSELF: Ideas and actions for a more ecological future

REMINERALIZING THE EARTH

THIRTEEN MYTHS ABOUT GENETIC ENGINEERING

A POKER PLAYER'S GUIDE
TO ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT

OUR ECOLOGY ARCHIVES

THE CITY

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A SHORT HISTORY OF BLACK WASHINGTON

HOW CITIES BECAME BLACK AND POOR: THE HIDDEN STORY

URBAN STATEHOOD: Why America needs more states.

SAVING THE CITY FROM ITSELF: This is this the full version of an article on the American city, portions of which have been published in various magazines and newspapers

URBAN NEWS ARCHIVES

HEALTH & SCIENCE

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WHY DO WE HAVE A WAR ON DRUGS, ANYWAY?

COLD FUSION ARCHIVES

PRESCRIPTION DRUG NEWS

DRUG WAR ARCHIVES

HEALTH & SCIENCE NEWS

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE

HEALTH INDICATORS

DRUG WAR STATS

IDEA MILL

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THE IDEA MILL; Articles, essays and arguments of interest to the lively mind

WORDS AND MEANING: A 1981 essay by Sam Smith on America's 'failure of communications' and what to do about it.

WHAT'S A HUMANITIES? Your editor becomes the resident philistine on a humanities council

RECOVERED HISTORY: Tales from the memory hole

WHY THERE ARE SO MANY DRUG REFORM POLICY GROUPS: Adam Smith of the Drug Reform Coordination Network explainst the proliferation of some 350 groups concerned with drug policy reform

FIRE ARM INSURANCE John Gear proposes a new approach to the gun issue.

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION The fair way to count votes. A fact sheet and an article explaining how we could make our elections fairer.

ELECTING AN ATTORNEY GENERAL Sam Smith and Pentagon whistleblower Ernie Fitzgerald propose a constitutional amendment to provide for an independent attorney general selected in an off-year election.

THE OTHER WAY TO DEAL WITH THE NATIONAL DEBT:  What happens when you let the government, rather than banks, print the money.

MYSTERIES

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UNSOLVED MYSTERIES: BCCI, OKC, and all the other acronyms of uncertainty.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER?

THE CRASH OF TWA 800

SPY NEWS ARCHIVES

ECONOMICS

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EVANGELICAL ECONOMICS

DERIVATIVE AMERICA & THE ENRON GENERATION

FALSE PROFITS An excerpt from Why Bother? that is increasingly apt as news of corporate criminality rolls in

CORPORATIONS VS. AMERICA: The counter-revolution of corporations against the American dream

CORPORATE NEWS ARCHIVES

THE BCCI SCANDAL

NO FAULT CAPITALISM MEETS LEMON SOCIALISM An award-winning article on the second S&L scandal -- the federal bailout.

ECONOMICS ARCHIVES

LABOR ARCHIVES

THE WORLD

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UKRAINE

THE U.S. AND TORTURE

AN ALTERNATIVE 9/11 REPORT

THE GEORGE BUSH CODICIL TO MY WILL

THE CONTRAS AND COCAINE

PEACE MOVEMENT

MURDER CAPITAL

THE WAR DEPARTMENT

NEW WORLD ORDER: Our archives on globalization.

TIME WARP The generation gap and the war

HOW TO TELL IF YOU'VE WON

CHINA NEWS ARCHIVES

DEPLETED URANIUM: RECYCLING DEATH

FAILURES OF INTELLIGENCE; The triumph of hope over experience

THE REAL WAR: BETWEEN MYTH AND REALITY

WHERE'S BIN BEEN? Reports on the reported whereabouts of bin Laden as compiled by the Review

THE OIL CONNECTION

OUR FOREIGN NEWS ARCHIVES

FACT SHEET ON THE IMF

LETTER TO MOSCOW: In 1991 TPR published an open letter to the new leaders of Russia about the American way of democracy and economics. It suggests some other ways things might have happened, but didn't.

THE POLITICS OF NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS  Green thinker John Rensenbrink

IRAQ NEWS

COSTS OF THE IRAQ WAR

THE REVISION THING - The history of the Iraq war told entirely in official lies

THE COALITION OF THE SHILLING The Iraqis will have to learn democracy someplace else

THE ROAD TO ABU GHRAIB

A VETERAN SPEAKS: "I KILLED INNOCENT PEOPLE FOR MY GOVERNMENT"

BYRD SUMS IT UP: Senator Robert Byrd on the problems with an Iraq war

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ISRAELI SPY STORIES

WATER: THE GREAT HIDDEN ISSUE OF THE MIDEAST

THE STORY BEHIND AIPAC

OUTSOURCING FOREIGN POLICY TO ISRAEL

MID-EAST NEWS ARCHIVES

PLAYING ETHNIC POLITICS AT GROUND ZERO

BYRD SUMS IT UP: Senator Robert Byrd on the problems with an Iraq war

GULF WAR I ARCHIVES Articles from the Review during the first Gulf escapade

THE U.S. ARMY IN AFGHANISTAN
Jason Vest examines the pitfalls of the new military

AFGHANISTAN FACTS

BALKAN NEWS STORIES

SPEECH AT FIRST ANTI-BALKAN WAR RALLY Washington Mall, April 23 1999

DOCTORS & DESTROYERS: Talk at Dupont Circle anti-war rally, June 26, 1999

GREEN OR BUST
GREEN GEAR
GREEN PLACE
GROWING GREEN
HISTORY'S HINTS FOR THIRD PARTIES
HISTORY OF THE PROVOS
WHY I RAN
GREENER PASTURES, GREENER VOTERS