World

A Full Tank of Paradoxes A Full Tank of Paradoxes

Contrary to the impression fostered by the government's supporters, not all the fuel protesters are selfish, gas-guzzling throwbacks greedy for a bigger TV.

Sep 25, 2000 / Maria Margaronis

Trulock Is Source of Botched Lee Case Trulock Is Source of Botched Lee Case

In a bad spy flick, there's got to be a character like Notra Trulock, an obsessed sleuth who always gets his man--even if it's the wrong man.

Sep 12, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Russia’s Environmental Crisis Russia’s Environmental Crisis

NPR's Living On Earth program broadcast a radio version of this story over the weekend of September 1-3, 2000. Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Ins...

Sep 7, 2000 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard

Iraq: What the Butler Saw Iraq: What the Butler Saw

At the beginning of September, Hans Blix, head of UNMOVIC, the latest UN commission for verifying Iraqi disarmament, poised to report his new team's readiness to go into Iraq.

Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams

In Re Lori Berenson In Re Lori Berenson

In the nearly five years since Lori Berenson's arrest in a Peruvian police roundup, the politics and emotions swirling around her case have only intensified.

Aug 24, 2000 / The Editors

The Lori Berenson Papers The Lori Berenson Papers

Research support: the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute. Additional reporting: Edmundo Cruz.

Aug 24, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Levi and Liz Mineo

Countdown in Managua Countdown in Managua

A river of people, 19,000 workers, packed ten or twelve across, pours slowly through a bazaar of hawkers toward the gates of the Las Mercedes Free Trade Zone, about a mile from M...

Aug 24, 2000 / Feature / Robert J.S. Ross and Charles Kernaghan

Pity Bush, Gamely Shedding Treaties Like Dandruff Pity Bush, Gamely Shedding Treaties Like Dandruff

It is time to rally around our President and forego the constant drumbeat of criticism that has been his lot on the world stage ever since he discovered that foreign policy invol...

Jul 31, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

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

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