Slate
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - 07:49
U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have stolen tens of millions through bribery, theft, and rigged contracts. The magnitude of additional losses from fraud, waste, and abuse by contractors, civilians, and allied foreign troops in Afghanistan has never been tallied, but officials probing such crimes say the total is in the billions of dollars.
Monday, September 22, 2014 - 06:38
Recently, there has been much media ado about how nervous Poland and the Baltic states are about Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that it may need to protect Russian speakers in the Baltics against “xenophobia”—similar language to that used in the early days of the Ukraine crisis. According to some press reports, Russian President Vladimir Putin also warned Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in a private meeting that his troops could take not only Kiev but the capitals of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, and Romania “within two days” if he wanted.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 00:00
Just days ahead of her inauguration, Bachelet, 62, sat down with Lally Weymouth to discuss inequality, education, and Chile's relationship with Washington.
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 08:51
People in attacked villages and towns, including those sympathetic to the military, complain that it is conducting its war indiscriminately, not differentiating between civilians and militants.
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 10:19
When former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled an $80 million international program to crack down on ivory smuggling at the United Nations last week, she drew an explicit link between the lucrative underground trade and terrorist financing.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 13:14
If you are reading this on a smartphone, then you are probably holding in your palm the conflict minerals that have sent the biggest manufacturing trade group in the U.S. into a court battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission. At stake in this battle between the National Association of Manufacturers and the government is whether consumers will know the potentially blood-soaked origins of the products they use every day and who gets to craft rules for multinational corporations—Congress or the business itself.
Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 00:00
It was probably the most combative, unequivocal, and forceful speech Capriles has ever given
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 00:00
As impossible as it may seem today, Chavez wielded the ceremonial gavel at the New York Stock Exchange and threw the first pitch at a Yankees game in 1999
Monday, June 11, 2012 - 00:00
The influx of U.S. money, ammunition and military training has provided an aggressive, male-dominated environment and more tools to further deteriorate the rule of law.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 00:00
It's a reminder that crime fighting is a bit like Whac-A-Mole-smothering traffickers' activities in one locale merely causes them to shift their operations elsewhere