East Timor

  • An unchanged landscape in Washington

    The administration's confused and negligent policy toward human rights abuses in Indonesia is not likely to change in the wake of the tsunami.
    By Sidney Blumenthal January 6, 2005

  • Noam Chomsky

    The nation's most implacable critic of U.S. foreign policy argues that the war is unjust, America is the biggest terrorist state and intellectuals always support official violence.
    By Suzy Hansen January 16, 2002

  • Militia U.

    Vermont's Norwich University continues to make Indonesians into soldiers, despite a suspension of military cooperation between the two countries.
    By Kenneth Rapoza October 21, 1999

  • Death of a journalist

    Reporter Sander Thoenes was touring a neighborhood in Dili, the capital of East Timor. Then soldiers opened fire.
    By Eve Pell September 30, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    "For Love of the Game" review strikes out; college students should learn to leave the nest; since when is George Bush an "education governor"?
    Letters to the Editor September 24, 1999

  • Allan Nairn freed, deported by Indonesia

    The American reporter who revealed rights abuses in East Timor, detained by Indonesian soldiers last week, is released.
    By Joan Walsh September 20, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    It's time for action in East Timor; misunderstanding "Stigmata"; cybercommunism and "free" software.
    Letters to the Editor September 17, 1999

  • Free Allan Nairn!

    An American reporter faces 10 years in a brutal Indonesian jail. His crime: Refusing to turn away from acts of inhumanity. The United States must act -- now.
    By Bruce Shapiro September 17, 1999

  • Another U.N. disaster

    United Nations ineptitude has paved the way for the current East Timor crisis.
    By Ian Williams September 11, 1999

  • Mute no more

    Indonesia's greatest novelist reflects on his nation's upcoming election and on the crimes of his archenemy, Suharto.
    By Robert Templer June 4, 1999

  • This week in travel

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    By Susanna Stromberg February 19, 1999

  • This week in travel

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    By Susanna Stromberg February 5, 1999

  • This week in travel

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    By Susanna Stromberg January 29, 1999

  • Dickering with the devil

    Without a vigiilant Congress, the U.S. could find itself supporting a new military dictatorship in Indonesia.
    By Peter Dale Scott May 21, 1998
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