World Leaders

Slobo in Prayer Slobo in Prayer

So Slobodan said prayers with Jesse. But prayed for what? Who knows? I'd guess he Would say, "So stop the bombs!" and then amens. Except when bombs no longer shower

May 6, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Saddam the Phoenix Saddam the Phoenix

Thanks principally to the reports of Barton Gellman in the Washington Post since last October, we know that US intelligence services fatally misused the United Nations Special C...

Apr 29, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Dilip Hiro

Whistleblower’s Trill on Iraq Whistleblower’s Trill on Iraq

Iraq is out of the news, mostly, except for the occasional report of a missile fired from a US jet flying over it on patrol. And Maj. Scott Ritter is off the air.

Apr 29, 1999 / Books & the Arts / William M. Arkin

Battle Hymn Battle Hymn

We're bombing you back to the Stone Age, Slobo, To teach you that you must behave. When all of our bombing is finished, Slobo,

Apr 15, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Srebrenica Revisited Srebrenica Revisited

During the Balkan war of 1912, Leon Trotsky was a war correspondent for a group of liberal Russian and Ukrainian newspapers.

Apr 1, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

The Myth and Milosevic The Myth and Milosevic

Whoever does not fight at Kosovo... May nothing bear fruit that his hand sows.      --Serb epic

Apr 1, 1999 / Marlene Nadle

Anatoly Chubais press conference

The Harvard Boys Do Russia The Harvard Boys Do Russia

After seven years of economic “reform” financed by billions of dollars in U.S.

May 14, 1998 / Feature / Janine R. Wedel

Why Say No? Why Say No?

Alex on the pathetic handshake between Rabin and Arafat.

Oct 4, 1994 / Alexander Cockburn

Flowers at the Berlin Wall Memorial after the commemoration ceremony marking the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Berlin, Germany, on November 9, 2024.

Sovietology and the End of the Cold War Sovietology and the End of the Cold War

The Cold War and its effects.

Nov 5, 0030 / Ronald Grigor Suny

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