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
No Impunity for Milosevic No Impunity for Milosevic
One of the notable achievements of the indictment issued on May 24 by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia--beyond fixing individual responsibility ...
Jun 3, 1999 / Editorial / The Editors
Humanitarian, All Too Humanitarian Humanitarian, All Too Humanitarian
Masses of people driven from their homes, murdered, maimed, raped, sent into panicked flight.
May 13, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
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 / Editorial / Marlene Nadle
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