Regions and Countries

Putin’s Choice Putin’s Choice

Vladimir Putin has been Russia's President for seven months, but there is no agreement in Moscow as to who he is or what kind of leader he will be.

Jul 13, 2000 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Pulling Back the Veil on Condor Pulling Back the Veil on Condor

For three years, from 1975 through 1977, the countries in what is known as the Southern Cone of South America underwent a human rights crime wave unprecedented before or since in...

Jul 13, 2000 / Feature / John Dinges

‘Give Peace a Chance’–While the Fools Fight On ‘Give Peace a Chance’–While the Fools Fight On

When it comes to world politics, the best Beatle was right.

Jun 22, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Does President Bush Have the Guts to Abandon a Bad Idea? Does President Bush Have the Guts to Abandon a Bad Idea?

Despite early stumbles, George W. Bush has the potential to be an effective foreign policy president. But his willingness to back off from the "Star Wars" missile defense, which ...

Jun 19, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Southern Lebanon Waits Southern Lebanon Waits

The final confrontation between Hezbollah and Israeli troops will stand alongside Anwar Sadat's 1977 arrival in Jerusalem and the extraordinary handshake (fatal for Yitzhak Rab...

Jun 8, 2000 / Robert Fisk

How We Made the Balkans How We Made the Balkans

When the Pulitzer prizes were announced in April, surprisingly none of the hundreds of journalists covering the war in the Balkans last year were among the winners.

May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder

China and Globalism China and Globalism

The politics of trade will always contrive to decide the most fateful questions in private while leaving public debate to chew over narrow, derivative issues.

May 18, 2000 / William Greider

The Battle of Vieques The Battle of Vieques

Puerto Ricans’ opposition to the Navy’s suffocating presence had been brewing long before the sit-in.

May 11, 2000 / Ed Morales

Underground Against the Taliban Underground Against the Taliban

The atrocities of the Afghan Taliban toward women have been widely reported in the Western press: women banned from work; forbidden to leave their homes unless shrouded in the bu...

May 11, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Copyright as Censorship Copyright as Censorship

The British government, increasingly desperate to silence a former MI5 intelligence officer who has been campaigning to expose government misconduct, has sued him and a London ne...

May 3, 2000 / Feature / Jon Wiener

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