World

Outrageous Fortuño Outrageous Fortuño

The combination of a four-year recession, a $3.2 billion deficit and a toxic Republican-style governor has turned Puerto Rico into a political powder keg.

Nov 11, 2009 / Editorial / Ed Morales

A Year of Obama A Year of Obama

Since the president took office, his administration has yielded one surrender after another.

Nov 11, 2009 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn

Evicted From His Own Head: On Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Evicted From His Own Head: On Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

In the stories of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the landscape of the Russian revolution is hostile territory, and terrifying in its scope.

Nov 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Elaine Blair

The Fifty-Year War The Fifty-Year War

We learned so much, at such cost, in Vietnam. Why must we learn it all again in Afghanistan?

Nov 11, 2009 / Feature / Jonathan Schell

How the US Funds the Taliban

How the US Funds the Taliban How the US Funds the Taliban

With Pentagon cash, contractors bribe insurgents not to attack supply lines for US troops

Nov 11, 2009 / Feature / Aram Roston

Money Talks for Blackwater in Iraq Money Talks for Blackwater in Iraq

The Nation's Jeremy Scahill on the revelation that Blackwater bribed local Iraqis following the Nisour Square massacre.

Nov 11, 2009 / Video / The Rachel Maddow Show

Gorbachev’s Sermon on the Mount Gorbachev’s Sermon on the Mount

"Blessed are the peacemakers" certainly applies to Mikhail Gorbachev, a man not honored enough for the example he set.

Nov 11, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer

Drone Race to a Known Future Drone Race to a Known Future

Armed drone aircraft in Afghanistan and Pakistan are only the latest wonder weapon to promise us the world.

Nov 11, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt

Blackwater Attempted to Bribe Iraqi Officials Blackwater Attempted to Bribe Iraqi Officials

Top Blackwater staff authorized attempted bribes of Iraqi officials in the wake of the 2007 Nisour Square massacre, the New York Times has reported.

Nov 10, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill

Letter From Berlin: Twenty Years After Letter From Berlin: Twenty Years After

The commemorations marking the fall of the Wall were joyous. But divisions still plague unified Germany.

Nov 10, 2009 / Feature / Paul Hockenos

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