World Leaders

Plumping for Pinochet Plumping for Pinochet

Why in 1973 did Chile's democracy, long considered the crown jewel of Latin America, turn into Augusto Pinochet's murderous regime? Why did the United States, which helped Pinoch...

Jan 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin

Gorbachev’s Revolution Gorbachev’s Revolution

Gorbachev represented a unique change in Soviet statesmanship; two books examine him and the end of the Cold War.

Dec 13, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Walter C. Uhler

Sharon or Arafat: Which Is the Sponsor of Terror? Sharon or Arafat: Which Is the Sponsor of Terror?

Israel responds to a suicide bombing with untrammeled military repression—which action is terrorism (if not both)?

Dec 7, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro? The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro?

New evidence of a CIA scheme to use Ernest Hemingway's Cuban farm.

Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / David Corn and Gus Russo

Chile and the End of Pinochet Chile and the End of Pinochet

The former dictator is charged at last, and human rights are the talk of the nation.

Feb 8, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper

Two Mexicos and Fox’s Quandary Two Mexicos and Fox’s Quandary

His dream is an open northern border. But first, he must end southern poverty.

Feb 8, 2001 / Feature / Jerry W. Sanders

Waiting for Sharon Waiting for Sharon

Among Palestinians in the occupied territories, the prospect that Ariel Sharon will be Israel's next prime minister is met with a shrug of the shoulders. The indifference is not ...

Feb 1, 2001 / Graham Usher

Russia’s Potemkin Leader Russia’s Potemkin Leader

Modern Russian history, as taught by Clinton Administration spin doctors and Op-Ed pundits, holds that Boris Yeltsin dismembered the Soviet Union and set Russia on a historic pat...

Jan 11, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder

The Führer Furor The Führer Furor

Chaplinesque Rapscallion New Leader of Germany's National Socialist Party       --The Onion "I have nothing to say about Hitler." With this...

Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter

Iraq’s Rehabilitation Iraq’s Rehabilitation

When members of the Arab League gathered for an emergency summit in Cairo on October 21 to discuss "the grave situation in the Palestinian Territories and its impact on the peace...

Oct 26, 2000 / Dilip Hiro

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