Stories by Ted Rall
A syndicated cartoonist and freelance writer based in New York City.
The war has meant the end of a unified Iraq and the beginning of chaos throughout the Middle East.
Posted on May 30, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Recent suicide bombings in Riyadh and Casablanca proved with bloody eloquence that al-Qaeda and similar groups are anything but "on the run," as George W. Bush puts it.
Posted on May 27, 2003, Source: AlterNet
With corporate vultures swooping into the killing fields, OPEC facing a death blow and Shi'ites partying like its 1979, Iraq is a mess only terrorists and greedheads could love.
Posted on Apr 25, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Why should Iraqis run into the streets to salute the American flag at staged events when they are beset by roving gangs of looters and rapists?
Posted on Apr 16, 2003, Source: AlterNet
If America loves its troops so much, why don't we pay them a living wage?
Posted on Apr 14, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Nothing would earn the U.S. more respect around the world than rebuilding Iraq, allowing an anti-American president to be elected, and then withdrawing our occupation troops.
Posted on Mar 26, 2003, Source: AlterNet
A new executive order means that American citizens, if declared "enemy combantants," can be executed without lawyer, judge, or jury.
Posted on Dec 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
With the Total Information Awareness Act, the right to privacy dies with a whimper.
Posted on Nov 27, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The Bush administration wants to topple Saddam, but has no idea what to do if it succeeds. The result may be a violent, chaotic post-war Iraq that looks a lot like Afghanistan today.
Posted on Nov 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Ultimately, bombs make war too easy. Leaders are less likely to engage in military aggression if going to war will cost the lives of their own people.
Posted on Sep 17, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Americans need a full, open, publicly televised investigation into 9/11, and we needed it last October. We deserve honest answers to the following still-unanswered questions.
Posted on Sep 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Post-9/11 detainees are in prison not for what they have done, but for whom they know and what they may do in the future.
Posted on Aug 22, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Islamists don't want to impose Islam on America; they want to make Muslim countries more radically Muslim. They also want us to stop messing with them.
Posted on Jul 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The treatment of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla is turning into a Kafkaesque spectacle that should make all Americans nervous.
Posted on Jun 13, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Spam and online identity theft are all too common on the wild, wild Web. And upcoming legislation won't do much to stop the madness.
Posted on Jun 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
American reporters covering the war in Afghanistan were often ignorant, lazy, and self-indulgent. And it showed in the stories they filed.
Posted on Jun 3, 2002, Source: AlterNet
An American-backed coup against Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez went from fait accompli to farcical footnote in a matter of hours.
Posted on Apr 17, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The more we go after Islamist extremists, the more they'll go after us, breeding a perpetual war that Bush hopes will usher him in another term come November 2004.
Posted on Mar 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
As confirmation of Danny Pearl's gruesome murder hit the news, my friends called. "That could have been you," one said. "No," I replied, "it couldn't."
Posted on Feb 28, 2002, Source: AlterNet
When it suits their immediate aims, the Bushies wield the law like a club. As soon as the law proves inconvenient, however, they chuck it out the window like a gum wrapper.
Posted on Jan 31, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Some skeptics say that the Afghan war is about oil, not terrorism. By appointing an oil industry insider as "special envoy to Afghanistan," Bush is fueling their theory.
Posted on Jan 10, 2002, Source: AlterNet
When you spend just a few weeks living the same toxic lifestyles as these poor and unlucky souls, you find it's amazing that they live as long as they do.
Posted on Dec 10, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Despite living in one of the harshest and most embattled regions on earth, Afghanis find many ways to help each other out.
Posted on Dec 3, 2001, Source: AlterNet
From ground zero in Afghanistan, Ted Rall reports on the chaos, violence, crime and fear that defines the power vacuum left by the retreating Taliban.
Posted on Nov 27, 2001, Source: AlterNet
An intelligent middle ground between mindless war and mindless pacifism can be found through simple common sense -- hunt down bin Laden, pump up Afghanistan and stop bombing.
Posted on Oct 17, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The shortest route for a pipeline from oil-rich Kazakhstan out to sea would be through Afghanistan, which is why the U.S. is set on toppling the Taliban regime, argues this author.
Posted on Oct 11, 2001, Source: AlterNet
If international bodies keep leaning on the U.S. to do the right thing, liberals might learn to love globalization after all.
Posted on Jul 18, 2001, Source: Mother Jones Online
