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Ken Silverstein

The Radioactive Boy Scout

A suburban teen attempts to build a reactor, radioactivity ensues.

Ken Silverstein Harper's Nov 1998 30min Permalink

Business World

A Giant Among Giants

As it approaches a public offering, how Glencore—founded by the legendary fugitive March Rich—cornered the market for just about everything by working with dictators and spies.

Ken Silverstein Foreign Policy Apr 2012 25min Permalink

Politics World

Teodorin's World

A profile of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the Malibu-dwelling, “fantastically corrupt” dictator-in-waiting of Equatorial Guinea. Teodorin, as his friends call him, is considered by U.S. intelligence to be “an unstable, reckless idiot.”

Ken Silverstein Foreign Policy Mar 2011 Permalink

Business

Tea Party in the Sonora

On the political climate in Arizona.

Ken Silverstein Harper's Jul 2010 Permalink