The Journal’s Russia Scandal The Journal’s Russia Scandal
Just before Christmas in 1997, as a tumultuous stock-market crisis ravaged emerging markets in every corner of the globe, readers of the Wall Street Journal were treated to some ...
Sep 16, 1999 / Feature / Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames
Laundering Yeltsin Laundering Yeltsin
The Russian Foreign Minister says it's an American plot to keep Russia weak. The head of the KGB-successor agency offers that same conviction in a formal briefing to President Bo...
Sep 16, 1999 / Feature / Matt Bivens
Robbing Russia Robbing Russia
Finally, the rampant corruption at the core of Russia's post-Communist transformation is front-page news.
Sep 16, 1999 / The Editors
Ending Timor’s Ordeal Ending Timor’s Ordeal
Indonesia's scorched-earth compliance with international pressure on East Timor has left Dili, the capital, in ruins, displaced some 100,000 people to refugee camps under the con...
Sep 16, 1999 / The Editors
US Complicity in Timor US Complicity in Timor
While the Indonesian military's thugs continue their rampage in East Timor, most foreign reporters have fled the country.
Sep 9, 1999 / Allan Nairn
East Timor’s Agony East Timor’s Agony
With Dili burning and anti-independence militias carrying on a murderous terror campaign beneath the noses of Indonesian soldiers and police, the United Nations prepared to evac...
Sep 9, 1999 / The Editors
A Haunted Journey A Haunted Journey
Poland’s Jewish community inspired Jewish life the world over. Now it is dead.
Sep 9, 1999 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Behind the Blue Helmets Behind the Blue Helmets
The new US envoy to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, has personal experience of how frustrating it can be to negotiate, even when speaking in the name of that mega-clich&ea...
Sep 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
Holbrooke’s Time to Lead Holbrooke’s Time to Lead
In assuming his position at the United Nations, ambassador Richard Holbrooke brings his personal access to power, a sharp intelligence and a capacity, unusual in government, to t...
Sep 2, 1999 / The Editors
The Commentary School of Falsification The Commentary School of Falsification
Israeli schoolchildren returned to their desks this year to find a new history curriculum.
Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens