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Machiavelli The Florentine
The man who taught rulers how to rule.
2008-09-17 to bestof, history, politics, profile, story, war by bagoly
In nuclear net's undoing, a web of shadowy deals
the Tinners played an important role in a clandestine American operation to funnel sabotaged nuclear equipment to Libya and Iran, a major but little-known element of the efforts to slow their nuclear progress.
2008-08-25 to bestof, business, nuclear, politics, swiss, switzerland, us, war by bagoly
Day of the Crocodile
Zimbabwe’s longtime ruler, Robert Mugabe, made a brutal sham of recent elections, after banning Western journalists. The author, a native, reports from the inside on Mugabe’s campaign of terror—and the extraordinary courage of those who’ve confronted “The
2008-08-08 to bestof, politics, war by bagoly
The Myth of the Surge
Hoping to turn enemies into allies, U.S. forces are arming Iraqis who fought with the insurgents. But it's already starting to backfire. A report from the front lines of the new Iraq
2008-03-03 to iraq, politics, war by bagoly
Douglas Farah: A.Q. Khan's Atomic Vision
How a petty postal inspector became the world's leading nuclear salesman.
2007-12-26 to bestof, nuclear, politics, power, war by soobrosa
Ed Vulliamy: Twelve years on, a killer on the loose
In an orgy of savage violence Radovan Karadzic's forces slaughtered tens of thousands of Muslims in the Bosnian war. Why the West has failed so abjectly to bring him to justice?
2007-12-26 to balkan, bestof, eu, massacre, politics, power, serbia, war by soobrosa
Old U.S. Allies, Still Hiding in Laos
Four decades after the Central Intelligence Agency hired thousands of jungle warriors to fight Communists on the western fringes of the Vietnam War, men who say they are veterans of that covert operation are isolated, hungry and periodically hunted by a L
2007-12-19 to bestof, history, politics, usa, war by bagoly
The Secret History of the Impending War with Iran That the White House Doesn't Want You to Know
Two former high-ranking policy experts from the Bush administration say the U.S. has been gearing up for a war with Iran for years, despite claiming otherwise. It'll be Iraq all over again.
2007-11-09 to bestof, iran, politics, war by bagoly
The Octopus in the Cathedral of Salt
the center of banana and plantain production in Northern Colombia. Turbo is also the main port of departure for cocaine headed to the United States and Europe, a city still in the grip of paramilitary and smuggler activity.
2007-09-21 to bestof, drugs, military, politics, war by bagoly
BBC NEWS | Europe | Russia restarts Cold War patrols
Russia is resuming a Soviet-era practice of sending its bomber aircraft on long-range flights, President Vladimir Putin has said.
2007-08-21 to politics, war by darkeye

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