18/05/2013 | En Profundidad
Kissinger Declassified
As Chile and Argentina finally seek justice for those who were tortured, raped, and "disappeared" under the right-wing dictatorships of the 70s, the declassification process in Washington is revealing the horrifying complicity of then U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger.
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25/10/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
What Will They Think of Next?
Why the crazy Iranian plot to pay Mexicans to kill the Saudi ambassador isn’t so implausible.
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13/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Chomsky's Follies: The professor's pronouncements about Osama Bin Laden are stupid and ignorant.
Anybody visiting the Middle East in the last decade has had the experience: meeting the hoarse and aggressive person who first denies that Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center and then proceeds to describe the attack as a justified vengeance for decades of American imperialism.
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13/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Chomsky's Follies: The professor's pronouncements about Osama Bin Laden are stupid and ignorant.
Anybody visiting the Middle East in the last decade has had the experience: meeting the hoarse and aggressive person who first denies that Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center and then proceeds to describe the attack as a justified vengeance for decades of American imperialism.
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05/08/2010 | En Profundidad
Hugo Boss- What I learned about Hugo Chávez's mental health when I visited Venezuela with Sean Penn.
Recent accounts of Hugo Chávez's politicized necrophilia may seem almost too lurid to believe, but I can testify from personal experience that they may well be an understatement.
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07/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - One More Mission: Gen. Stanley McChrystal should oversee the U.S. drawdown from Iraq.
Among the many bad impressions currently being given by the United States is the perception that we only have two real generals.
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11/08/2009 | Frente Externo
North Korea - A Lousy Day's Work.Was Bill Clinton's visit to North Korea worth the time, energy, and prestige? No way.
I call your attention to a small detail about Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two American journalists who were wrongfully arrested, illegally detained, and then capriciously released by the crime family that controls the northern section of the Korean peninsula and treats all its inhabitants as slave-prisoners and all the neighbors within its missile range as hostages.
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11/08/2009 | Frente Externo
North Korea - A Lousy Day's Work.Was Bill Clinton's visit to North Korea worth the time, energy, and prestige? No way.
I call your attention to a small detail about Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two American journalists who were wrongfully arrested, illegally detained, and then capriciously released by the crime family that controls the northern section of the Korean peninsula and treats all its inhabitants as slave-prisoners and all the neighbors within its missile range as hostages.
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11/10/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How To Win Afghanistan's Opium War
The best way to deprive the Taliban of drug profits? The United States should buy Afghanistan's poppy crop instead of trying to eradicate it.
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11/10/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How To Win Afghanistan's Opium War
The best way to deprive the Taliban of drug profits? The United States should buy Afghanistan's poppy crop instead of trying to eradicate it.
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18/07/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The War Between the Wars: Who Says We Can Only Face Our Enemies In One Place at a Time?
If there is one element of moral and political certainty that cements the liberal consensus more than any other, it is the complacent view that while Iraq is "a war of choice," it is really and only Afghanistan that is a war of necessity. The ritualistic solidity of this view is impressive. It survives all arguments and all evidence.
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18/07/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The War Between the Wars: Who Says We Can Only Face Our Enemies In One Place at a Time?
If there is one element of moral and political certainty that cements the liberal consensus more than any other, it is the complacent view that while Iraq is "a war of choice," it is really and only Afghanistan that is a war of necessity. The ritualistic solidity of this view is impressive. It survives all arguments and all evidence.
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14/07/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Believe Me, It’s Torture
What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist—not inflict—it.
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14/07/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Believe Me, It’s Torture
What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist—not inflict—it.
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03/06/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A Tale of Two Tell-Alls: If You Want to Read a Serious Book About the Intervention in in Iraq, Look to Douglas Feith
When Bush's Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill defected from the Cabinet in 2002 and Ron Suskind told O'Neill's story of being surrounded by fools, Michael Kinsley observed that the president deserved all he got from the book. Anyone dumb enough to hire a fool like O'Neill in the first place ought to have known what to expect.
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03/06/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A Tale of Two Tell-Alls: If You Want to Read a Serious Book About the Intervention in in Iraq, Look to Douglas Feith
When Bush's Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill defected from the Cabinet in 2002 and Ron Suskind told O'Neill's story of being surrounded by fools, Michael Kinsley observed that the president deserved all he got from the book. Anyone dumb enough to hire a fool like O'Neill in the first place ought to have known what to expect.
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24/01/2008 | Frente Externo
Dear Mr. President...
A few months ago, it became possible to hear members and supporters of your administration going around Washington and saying that the question of a nuclear-armed Iran “would not be left to the next administration.” As a line of the day, this had the advantage of sounding both determined and slightly mysterious, as if to commit both to everything and to nothing in particular.
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15/01/2008 | Frente Externo
The Case Against Hillary Clinton
Why on earth would we choose to put the Clinton family drama at the center of our politics again?
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30/12/2007 | Frente Externo
Daughter of Destiny Benazir Bhutto, 1953-2007.
The sternest critic of Benazir Bhutto would not have been able to deny that she possessed an extraordinary degree of physical courage. When her father was lying in prison under sentence of death from Pakistan's military dictatorship in 1979, and other members of her family were trying to escape the country, she boldly flew back in.
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04/07/2007 | Frente Externo
At the Desert's Edge
Where Africa faces Europe, on the ruins of Carthage's mighty civilization, Tunisia is holding fast against encroaching desert—and fundamentalism's arid tyranny. Five years after a brutal al-Qaeda bombing, the author explores the pressure points in one of the continent's most successful countries.
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23/05/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Londonistan Calling
The London neighborhood of the author's youth, Finsbury Park, is now one of the breeding grounds for a new phenomenon: the British jihadist. How did a nation move from cricket and fish-and-chips to burkas and shoe-bombers in a single generation?
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23/05/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Londonistan Calling
The London neighborhood of the author's youth, Finsbury Park, is now one of the breeding grounds for a new phenomenon: the British jihadist. How did a nation move from cricket and fish-and-chips to burkas and shoe-bombers in a single generation?
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01/02/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A Heroic Disaster
There is evidently something in the British character that relishes a really solid military reverse. Many more hearts, among the island race, are set pounding by the gallant fiasco of the Light Brigade than even by Waterloo or Trafalgar.
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01/02/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A Heroic Disaster
There is evidently something in the British character that relishes a really solid military reverse. Many more hearts, among the island race, are set pounding by the gallant fiasco of the Light Brigade than even by Waterloo or Trafalgar.
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07/11/2006 | Frente Externo
The election? It's about the Redskins, stupid
American football, cowboy hats, boots and Darwin. These are the topics at the forefront of voters’ minds.
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19/10/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A Brain Pentagon Wants To Pick
Despite Controversy, Strategist Is Tapped as Valuable Resource
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06/06/2005 | Frente Externo
The Brother Karimov - America's friend, Uzbekistan's dictator.
have just come back from a series of debates on Iraq, including one sponsored by the Economist in England, where I only learned one new thing from the other side. All of them have recently learned to pronounce the name "Islam Karimov" and that of the country, Uzbekistan, over which he rules.
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