Bush's Iran/Argentina Terror Frame-Up
Gareth Porter : War on Terrorism
The Bush Administration cites a 1994 bombing in Argentina to tar Iran as a sponsor of global terror. But a fresh probe finds no evidence of an Iran connection.
2007
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The Martyrdom of Che Guevara
The CIA's role in his assassination managed to turn a failed--and flawed--guerrilla fighter into an enduring symbol of resistance to oppression.
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Argentina: Where Jobless Run Factories
Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis : Labor Organizing & Activism
Almost entirely under the media radar, unemployed workers here are taking over bankrupt businesses and reopening them under democratic management.
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Artists Pursue the Disappeared
Marian Schlotterbeck : Fine Art
With greater efficiency than the slow efforts for truth and justice, a traveling art exhibition bears witness to the victims of Argentina's "dirty war."
2006
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Let's Dance
In Tango: The Art History of Love, Robert Thompson traces the dance's roots in Afro-Argentine history. Tomas Eloy Martínez's The Tango Singer appropriates its music to explore the recent past.
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Ford's Past in Argentina
Kelly Hearn : Ford Motor Company
Legal actions are now unfolding against former Ford Motor Company officials for colluding with the military during Argentina's "dirty war."
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¡No Más! No More!
Patrick Mulvaney : Foreign Affairs
Uruguay and Argentina are cutting ties with the US Army's School of the Americas, paving the way for other Latin American countries to end a destabilizing force that only perpetuates human rights atrocities.
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Looking for Answers in Argentina
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, icons of courageous demands for accountability in Argentina, marked a thirty-year milestone and a significant if imperfect victory in the fight for human rights.
2005
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Bitter Memories of a 'Dirty War'
The current debate in the United States over the use of torture in the interrogation of terror suspects has prompted Patricia Isasa, a teenage torture victim in Argentina's "dirty war," to speak out against the School of the Americas, a longtime training ground for torture techniques.
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The Soccer Star and the President
Who is Diego Maradona, and how did a former Argentinian soccer star become the nemesis of an American President?
2003
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No Peace Without a Fight
Naomi Klein : Global Justice Movement
In places where daily life is like war, the people who are confronting this brutality are the peace activists.
2002
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Enron and the Bushes
When George W. Bush was first running for governor of Texas in 1994, we looked at Bush family activities on behalf of Enron in Argentina.
This Week: Katrina vanden Heuvel on the meaning of patriotism this July 4th. Plus, some of our most compelling interviews from the first half of 2008: Victor Navasky on the experts getting it wrong about Iraq; Stuart Klawans on Romanian film; and Arthur Danto on the state of contemporary art. (13mb mp3)
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