Ghost soldiers

By Mark Benjamin and Barbara Slavin

The Pentagon sent ill-equipped and poorly trained reservists into harm's way as it scrambled to fill Civil Affairs units to rebuild Iraq and

Excerpts from this story referencing "Kosovo":

"… stopher Coffin had served 23 years in uniform and had recently deployed to Kosovo when the Army blocked his retirement from the reserve force and shipped hi …"

Cheney led Halliburton to feast at federal trough

By Knut Royce and Nathaniel Heller

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2000 — Under the guidance of Richard Cheney, a get-the-government-out-of-my-face conservative, Halliburton Company ove

Excerpts from this story referencing "Mexico":

"… trachAlgeria1998$161,139,799guaranteePemexProject Funding Master Trust, TheMexico1998$375,379,380guaranteePemexProject Funding Master Trust, TheMexico1999$6 …"

"… t, TheMexico1998$375,379,380guaranteePemexProject Funding Master Trust, TheMexico1999$64,151,962loanSocNational de Combustiveis de AngolaAngola2000$400,000, …"

"… AngolaAngola2000$400,000,001guaranteePemexProject Funding Master Trust, TheMexico2000$36,838,454guaranteeSamotlornefgazRussia $1,632,805,788   …"

Party machines, lobbyists and special interests: Part four

WASHINGTON, March 2, 2000 — Throughout his political career, Bill Bradley has defined himself by what he is not. ...

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"… sia. Cohen also publicly came out against Clinton administration policy in Kosovo, calling Clinton’s actions incompetent, feckless, and arrogant. Bradley …"

"… again in 1999, speaking in opposition to the administration’s policy in Kosovo and the comprehensive test ban treaty.Jessica Einhorn: Former World Bank m …"

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Journalism with teeth

By Philip Knightley

LONDON, July 17, 1999 — Western media follow a depressingly familiar formula when it comes to the preparation of a nation for conflict....

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"… r, hated by his own people and despised in the Arab world. Equally, in the Kosovo conflict, the Serbs were portrayed as Nazi thugs intent on genocide and wo …"

Live pictures taken by U.S. planes were freely available

The war on terrorism in Europe is being undermined by a military communications system that makes it easier for terr

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"… started using the compromised satellite links to counter operations of the Kosovo Stabilization Force (KFOR), it would be within their capabilities. Accordi …"

"… ted for arms smugglers and drug traffickers operating in Bosnia and across Kosovo’s porous borders with neighboring Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro.Not …"

Europe's future mafia states

By Marina Walker Guevara

The National Intelligence Council released its latest study on the world’s future last week, Global Trends 2025. The report, produced by exp

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"… rruption, and the Balkan nations of Albania and its newly-founded neighbor Kosovo, known for their ruthless drug trafficking syndicates.Also on the list: La …"

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Watching the terror trails

LONDON, June 12, 2002 — If you heard anything, you would think it was a mosquito hovering, hunting for fresh prey. But in the dark night ski

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"… he U.N. and NATO’s continuing KFOR peacekeeping operations in and around Kosovo, a small fleet of U.S., German, British and French UAVs take to the air ev …"

"… it targets in dangerous areas of Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Serbia and now Kosovo, without putting pilots’ lives at risk. Using satellite links, they rela …"

"… trike aircraft. The spy planes also monitored refugee movements.During the Kosovo conflict, two Predators were shot down and a third crashed while approachi …"

"… eptember 2001 ended, 19 checkpoints have been established at the Macedonia-Kosovo border, with vehicle and identity checkpoints being operated throughout Ko …"

Special Report: Kuchma approved sale of weapons system to Iraq

By Phillip van Niekerk and André Verlöy

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2002 — Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma personally authorized the clandestine sale of $100-million worth of high-tech

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"… aircraft, which is what happened during the Gulf War. We also saw that in Kosovo.”Scott Ritter, former United Nations chief weapons inspector and now cri …"

Commentary: The dangers of disinformation in the war on terrorism

By Maud S. Beelman

WASHINGTON, February 2, 2002 — "In wartime," Winston Churchill once said, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a body

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"… ront.This technique was used to great effect in NATO’s air campaign over Kosovo in 1999, an operation in which “spin doctors” from Washington and Lond …"

'Tell them nothing till it's over and then tell them who won'

By Philip Knightley

LONDON, October 31, 2001 — There is an irreconcilable conflict in the way war is reported, highlighted once again by the allied attack on Af

Excerpts from this story referencing "Kosovo":

"… rm of our governments.”But in other wars— the Falklands, the Gulf War, Kosovo and now Afghanistan — no government can automatically assume that the me …"

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