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McCain's Vietnam obsession
The former POW's Senate career has been marked by his outspoken determination never to repeat Vietnam mistakes. So why does he support the Iraq war?
By Mark Benjamin Apr 1, 2008
I, Ramush
Former Kosovar rebel and prime minister Ramush Haradinaj is a local hero. He also faces war crime charges.
By Ginanne Brownell Oct 21, 2005
Rumsfeld's McArmy goes to war
The Pentagon's new public-private military was supposed to be a lean, mean fighting machine. It isn't working.
By David Morse Sep 18, 2003
Millions die, Bush is silent
The Congo's descent into a vortex of murder and destruction is the globe's worst human crisis. But as he travels in Africa this week, the president will ignore it.
By Laura McClure Jul 4, 2003
Oil, imperialism and "hypocrisy"
Among the hundreds of thousands protesting in London, most saw Bush and Blair as a bigger threat than dictator Saddam Hussein.
By David Akerman Feb 16, 2003
Yesterday's terrorist, today's peacemaker
In a vote hailed as a landmark stride for democracy, Macedonian voters elect an ethnic Albanian guerrilla leader many authorities still denounce as a terrorist.
By Ashley Fantz Sep 17, 2002
See no evil
As prosecutors present graphic evidence of Balkans atrocities, accused war criminal Slobodan Milosevic yawns and looks away and calls his trial "illegal."
By Laura Rozen Feb 14, 2002
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 Jan 16, 2002
Milosevic goes to The Hague
Yugoslavia's former dictator will face war crimes charges in an unprecedented international trial.
By Laura Rozen Jun 28, 2001
Macedonia on the brink
Colin Powell urges peace, but a walk through the capital city reveals a country on the verge of civil war.
By Laura Rozen Apr 13, 2001
Radioactive fallout
Did exposure to American depleted-uranium-tipped weapons cause the cancer deaths of some European peacekeepers who served in the Balkans?
By Laura Rozen Jan 12, 2001
Peacekeeping's pitfalls
Growing tensions along the border between Kosovo and southern Serbia could mark the first challenge for President-elect Bush's foreign policy team.
By Laura Rozen Dec 22, 2000
Kosovo crackdown
U.N. vice squad officers are sent home for "inappropriate behavior" with prostitutes.
By Jack Boulware Dec 13, 2000
Propping up the walls
As international support for Kosovar independence wanes, hatred still seethes between Albanians and Serbs. And the U.N. oversees their division.
By Richard Blow Oct 23, 2000
"He's finished"
Milosevic goes into hiding after hundreds of thousands of outraged Serbs seize Parliament and the state-run media. A report from the Battle for Belgrade.
By Alex Todorovic Oct 5, 2000
Outlaws in an outlaw nation
With Yugoslav election time approaching, Serbian activists face a new wave of repression as they try to fight the Milosevic regime from within.
By Laura Rozen Sep 6, 2000
Milosevic's fizzling opposition
Even a year after the NATO bombing of Belgrade, there's still no one around to take down the Yugoslav leader.
By Laura Rozen Jun 5, 2000
Misha Glenny's "The Balkans" and Michael Ignatieff's "Virtual War"
Behind the bombings in Kosovo, two journalists find Western self-interest and self-deception about the physical sacrifice war requires.
By Max Garrone May 4, 2000
Battle without blood
Michael Ignatieff talks about the poison of nationalism, the politics of fear and the strange future of war.
By Max Garrone May 4, 2000
Imagination unleashed in all its perverse glory
The Web: Let the Puritans figure out how to jam their mealy corks into the dike!
By Camille Paglia Apr 5, 2000
Paranoid city
Belgrade is gripped by rumors that NATO is about to begin bombing again.
By Laura Rozen Mar 15, 2000
Payoffs, fear and bloody conflict
With his usual bag of dirty tricks, Slobodan Milosevic looks to be preparing Serbia to reelect him.
By Laura Rozen Feb 10, 2000
Albanian gangsters kidnapping women and girls to service troops
Kosovo has not been part of the Eastern European sex trade that has flourished since the collapse of communism, but the lure of a 45,000-strong army has made it a new business.
By Hank Hyena Feb 9, 2000
Wake up! Is this Cloud-Cuckoo-Land?
Will we get stuck with a fumbling Bush? Given the evil eye by Hillary? Deafened by the shrill mania of gun controllers? And will Kate Winslet ever get the Oscar Helen Hunt stole from her?
By Camille Paglia Feb 2, 2000
Who killed Arkan?
The rise and fall of Zeljko Raznatovic symbolizes how corrupt and morally bankrupt Serbia has become under Slobodan Milosevic.
By Laura Rozen Jan 17, 2000
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