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Ken Silverstein is a contributing editor at Harper’s magazine and an Open Society fellow. Research support for this article was provided by The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute.

Uzbek president Islam Karimov and admirer professor Frederick Starr (AP)

Dictators rely on D.C. front men

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How Bahrain works Washington

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Bretton Sciaroni, right, shakes hands with Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen

America’s fixer in Cambodia

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Eli Lake of the Daily Beast/Newsweek, and Ben Smith of Politico (<a href='http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/the-fishbowldc-interview-with-twts-eli-lake_b20061'>MediaBistro</a>/Politico)

Never mind who paid the bar bill

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Eli Lake and Bill Kristol

Neoconservatives hype a new Cold War

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FILE - In this August 1990 file photo, during an emergency Arab League summit, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, left, is driven by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in Tahrir Square in Cairo. As rebels swarmed into Tripoli, Libya, late Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011, and Gadhafi's son and one-time heir apparent Seif al-Islam was arrested, Gadhafi's rule was all but over, even though some loyalists continued to resist. (AP Photo/Farouk Ibrahim, File) (AP)

Gadhafi’s Hollywood ending

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Neil Bush

The return of Neil Bush

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Our new favorite despot

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Our scary new best friends

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Blasts from the past

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Politics and the gas pump

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Our Nazi allies

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From Russia with guns

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