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Schell: How Did the Gates of Hell Open in Vietnam?
Znet Article, January, 18 2013
Jonathan Schell
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For half a century we have been arguing about “the Vietnam War.” Is it possible that we didn’t know what we were talking about?
Kroll: How Empires Fall (Including the American One)
Znet Article, March, 02 2012
Andy Kroll
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How and why a people suddenly develops a will to change the conditions under which it's living is, to me, one of the deep mysteries of all politics
Schell: If Americans Don’t Get Hurt, War Is No Longer War
Znet Article, June, 22 2011
Jonathan Schell
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Obama wants his Libyan war not to be a war
Schell: The energy crisis: a conversation with Jonathan Schell about invigorating the climate movement
Znet Article, December, 19 2009
Jonathan Schell
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Last June was the 27th anniversary of one of the largest protests in history, when upwards of one million people gathered on the Great Lawn in New York's Central Park to rally against nuclear weapons while the UN held a Special Session on Disarmam...
Schell: A Powerful Peace
Znet Article, August, 08 2008
Jonathan Schell
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With each year that passes, nuclear weapons provide their possessors with less safety while provoking more danger. Possession of nuclear arms provokes proliferation. Both nourish the global nuclear infrastructure, which in turn enlarges the possib...
Schell: A Powerful Peace
Znet Article, June, 01 2008
Jonathan Schell
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With each year that passes, nuclear weapons provide their possessors with less safety while provoking more danger. Possession of nuclear arms provokes proliferation. Both nourish the global nuclear infrastructure, which in turn enlarges the possib...
Schell: Are You With Us... or Against Us?
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Jonathan Schell
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The journey to the martial law just imposed on Pakistan by its self-appointed president, the dictator Pervez Musharraf, began in Washington on September 11, 2001. On that day, it so happened, Pakistan's intelligence chief, Lt. General Mahmood Ahme...
Schell: Trying to Dispel a Mist with a Machine Gun
Znet Article, December, 09 2007
Jonathan Schell
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Enter his small office at the Nation Institute only if you don't mind experiencing a slightly vertiginous feeling. Books are everywhere -- in boxes on the floor, on every surface, in, along, and perilously stacked above shelves. If you took a wron...
Schell: Too Late for Empire
Znet Article, July, 26 2006
Jonathan Schell
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Too Late for Empire
Schell: Farewell to Ground Zero
Znet Article, February, 17 2006
Jonathan Schell
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Farewell to Ground Zero
Schell: The Fall of the One-Party Empire
Znet Article, November, 23 2005
Jonathan Schell
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For some time, I have been suggesting that the aim of Republican strategy has been a Republican Party that permanently runs the United States and a United States that permanently runs the world. The two aims have been driven by a common purpose: t...
Schell: How to Lose an Election
Znet Article, October, 13 2005
Jonathan Schell
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As George W. Bush's approval ratings sink below 40%, and the GOP and all its projects, from the Iraq War to Social Security "reform" to Hurricane Katrina recovery plans, seem to be going to pieces, we are hearing on every side that it won't be eno...
Schell: The Exception Is the Rule
Znet Article, June, 16 2005
Jonathan Schell
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Sometimes the truth of a large, confusing historical enterprise can be glimpsed in a single news report. Such is the case in regard to the Iraq War, it seems to me, with the recent story in the Washington Post by Anthony Shadid and Steve Fainaru...
Schell: Revolution in American Nuclear Policy
Znet Article, May, 26 2005
Jonathan Schell
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A metaphorical "nuclear option" -- the cutoff of debate in the Senate on judicial nominees -- has just been defused, but a literal nuclear option, called "global strike," has been created in its place. In a shocking innovation in American nuclear ...
Schell: Nuclear Renaissance
Znet Article, May, 04 2005
Jonathan Schell
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The review conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), a five-yearly event, opened in New York on May 2 without benefit of an agenda. The conference had no agenda because the world has no agenda with respect to nuclear arms. Broadly s...
Schell: Faking Civil Society
Znet Article, April, 06 2005
Jonathan Schell
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Perhaps the most beautiful achievement of political life in the late twentieth century was the international movement for democracy that brought down several dozen dictatorships of every possible description -- authoritarian, communist, fascist, m...
Schell: A Less Super Superpower
Znet Article, March, 02 2005
Jonathan Schell
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One of the most difficult things to judge in the world today is the extent of American power. On the one hand, there is no doubt that the United States possesses a far larger pile of weapons than any other country, that the American economy is als...
Schell: Iraq's Unpredictable Politics
Znet Article, February, 09 2005
Jonathan Schell
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Iraq's Unpredictable Politics
Schell: What Is Wrong with Torture
Znet Article, January, 19 2005
Jonathan Schell
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The war in Iraq has given birth to an issue that may...
