Showing results for: Venezuela (page 56)
Get your World Cup scorecard!
Andrew O'Hehir
Everything you need to know about the players and teams.
Our new favorite despot
Ken Silverstein
The dictator of Equatorial Guinea runs his country like a dungeon. But he's suddenly awash in black gold, so big oil and the Bush White House find him utterly charming.
Gore Vidal
Gary Kamiya
Congress should investigate how much the Bush "oil junta" knew in advance about Sept. 11. This and other bombshells from American literature's leading provocateur.
Bush’s Latin diplomacy goes south
Joshua Micah Marshall
The White House is embarrassed after the State Department's Latin American specialist pointedly fails to condemn the Venezuela coup -- and the coup then collapses.
“Clockstoppers”
Damien Cave
Impressive sci-fi effects and cute actors can't save a trite, safe teen flick that should please Joe Lieberman.
How safe is your airplane?
P. Smith
After the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, some pilots requested that all Airbus A300 planes be grounded. But they're still aloft.
Colombia’s growing nightmare
Ana Arana
Guerrilla commander Fabian Ramirez's kidnapping of a prominent Colombian senator seems motivated more by passion than politics. And it has set off a new round in the country's long, bloody narco-war.
“Dragonfly”
Stephanie Zacharek
Kevin Costner makes a 1-800 connection with the next world in this piece of gauzy supernatural hokum.
Noam Chomsky
Suzy Hansen
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.
The ghost of terror past
Jake Tapper
As the Bush administration tries to push through controversial State Department nominee Otto Reich, critics suggest the White House has a troubling double standard when it comes to fighting evil.
The war of the wizards
Chris Petrikin
"Lord of the Rings" vs. "Harry Potter"! The inside story of how a pair of AOL Time Warner movie studios are facing off with the two biggest movie releases of the new millennium.
Throw the SUVs overboard!
Jennifer Foote Sweeney
President Bush has been far too timid about asking Americans for wartime sacrifices. He should start by calling on patriots to wean themselves from foreign oil.
Stuck in the Gulf
Damien Cave
Could Central Asian oil, piped through a rebuilt Afghanistan, wean the West from the Mideast? Chances are slim.
The anthrax vaccine scandal
Laura Rozen
Why did the Pentagon allow BioPort Corp. to remain the sole U.S. supplier of a crucial weapon against bioterror, despite years of failure to deliver the vaccine?
Oily insecurity
Damien Cave
After Sept. 11, conservatives call again for drilling in Alaska -- but environmentalists say the real danger is our addiction to oil.
What’s wrong with the rock ‘n’ roll biz, you ask?
Salon Staff
People are treated like ATM machines, that's what! Readers sound off on the music industry's woes.
Deadly mistake
Fiona Morgan
Why did the Peruvian military shoot down a plane full of innocent people -- and why was the CIA involved?
Treachery over the Andes
Jeff Stein
The downing of a U.S. missionary plane over Peru raises questions about whether we can trust our drug-war allies -- and the families of soldiers who died in Colombia say the answer is no.
Will free trade kill democracy?
David Moberg
Thousands of protesters send out an SOS in Quebec: Governments are giving corporations free rein to negotiate a hemispheric trade pact.
Isabel Allende
Kaitlin Quistgaard
Her books don't get edited, she says Latin lovers make lousy husbands and her daughter's pornographic letters are a great read.
It’s the character, stupid
David Horowitz
Voters don't trust Al Gore, especially when it comes to national security. And they're right.
Everything but the truth
Joe Conason
Dick Cheney says he didn't depend on government help during the big oil
days that made him a $39 million man. The record of his Halliburton dealings
tells a different story.
Macho anthropology
Juno Gregory
Did scientists start a deadly epidemic to prove that humanity is innately violent -- or are they victims of politics?
You’re an excellent host
Jill Wolfson
Parasites can slip into your body, rewrite your DNA and, sometimes, change your mood.
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