Stories by Jonathan Schell
Jonathan Schell is the Nation Institute's Harold Willens Peace Fellow. The Jonathan Schell Reader was recently published by Nation Books.
As is true of so many adversaries, the nuclear haves and have-nots share more in common with each other than with other nations: They both want nuclear weapons.
Posted on May 5, 2005, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
How did a decidedly popular election occur under the auspices of a decidedly unpopular occupation?
Posted on Feb 10, 2005, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
Why, when human need is the greatest, should the human response always be left to whim?
Posted on Jan 6, 2005, Source: The Nation
The U.S. strategy is now focused entirely on inspiring fear in the minds of Iraqis. To hell with winning their hearts.
Posted on Nov 20, 2004, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
Once we accept that this war has been a terrible mistake, then we have no choice but to withdraw immediately.
Posted on Sep 25, 2004, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
Is the United States then a globe-straddling empire? Not just yet – and maybe never.
Posted on Aug 23, 2004, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The great majority of Democratic voters ardently oppose the war, yet the party has made what appears to be a tactical decision to hide its faith.
Posted on Jul 31, 2004, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
High-powered word-torturers such as President Bush want us to believe that the word "relationship" can be stretched to cover relations of hostility and rejection. But that doesn't change the facts.
Posted on Jun 24, 2004, Source: The Nation
Kerry is stuck between politics and truth. After all, it is Kerry's bravery as a soldier fighting the mistaken war, not his bravery as a veteran opposing it, that helps him in his bid for the presidency.
Posted on Apr 22, 2004, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
On June 30, the Bush administration intends to turn over something to someone in Iraq, but no one can quite define what that will be. It's certainly not sovereignty, by any definition.
Posted on Apr 9, 2004, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
With its doctrine of 'preventive war,' the Bush administration has loosed a principle of brute force on the world. As the first anniversary of the Iraq War approaches, the full costs of the Bush Doctrine are truly being felt.
Posted on Mar 12, 2004, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
Relinquishing the fantasy of a victory in Iraq is the true moral mission of our time.
Posted on Sep 5, 2003, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
Three anti-nuclear activists issue an urgent appeal calling on the U.S. to commit itself to the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Posted on Jun 10, 2002, Source: The Nation
In the age of international criminal courts, human rights and apologies, even the U.S. can't ignore atrocities committed in Vietnam.
Posted on May 8, 2001, Source: The Nation
